2016 Volkswagen Caddy revealed

According to Khabar Khodro, the 2016 Volkswagen Caddy compact van has been revealed, gaining new engines, a suite of advanced safety systems, and sharper, more car-like design elements inspired by the brand’s passenger models.

The fourth-generation Caddy will go on sale in Germany at the end of June before rolling out into other international markets from the second half of the year.

The new model comes 11 years after the introduction of its predecessor, the Caddy ‘Typ 2K’, which launched in 2004 and was updated in 2010, and found almost 1.5 million homes around the world throughout its life.

Rather than adopting Volkswagen’s ubiquitous MQB platform, the fourth-gen Caddy is based on a revised version of the previous model’s PQ35 underpinnings, which it shares with the likes of the Beetle, Jetta, Scirocco and Tiguan.

The exterior borrows heavily from the smaller Polo and Golf, gaining a larger front grille with a more prominent VW badge, a more stylised bumper, squarer tail-lights and sharper tailgate lines.

Volkswagen has only released limited technical details of the new Caddy at this stage, though has confirmed that under the bonnet sits a range of Euro 6-compliant turbocharged petrol and diesel engines.