2024
Semi-Auto
Tax: n/a
Mileage: 160
Diesel
Mileage: 2,227
Automatic
Mileage: 2
2026
Mileage: 5,000
2025
Mileage: 5,500
Mileage: 15
Mileage: 6,076
Mileage: 2,400
Mileage: 100
2023
Mileage: 6,999
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By and large, motorhomes are built by companies that borrow van manufacturer engineering, then build luxury quarters around it. Or at least some of them do. Since 1988, Volkswagen has been offering the California, a four-berth motorhome based on the Transporter van, which in more recent years has been challenged by two van-based contenders of the same size, the Mercedes V-Class Marco Polo and the Ford Transit Custom Nugget. Many motorhome buyers though, want something larger than any of these models. And you'd certainly need something bigger if you wanted a proper bathroom in your motorhome, a feature that would give you real go-anywhere freedom in using a vehicle like this. That's what this model, the Volkswagen Grand California, provides. Launched in 2019, it's only direct rivals come from motorhome companies basing a living structure on third-party large van - usually a Fiat Ducato or a Peugeot Boxer. Volkswagen reckons that designing and producing the complete vehicle itself produces a much more complete end product. And updated this Grand California in Spring 2025 to create the model we're going to look at here.
When it comes to motorhomes, space is the ultimate luxury. And since this Grand California has so much of it, that's enough to make it feel very luxurious indeed. It's initially a bit shocking to find that a vehicle as big as this only sleeps two in standard form. But that's what the retiree market it's aimed at want - and on the 600 model, there is the chance to pay extra for an extra high bunk if owners want the option of bringing along the grandchildren. You have to know what you're buying here of course. This model won't be as easy to adapt to on the road as the brand's smaller Transporter-based standard California model. And of course it's much pricier to buy. If though, you want the most complete, most comprehensively engineered motorhome there is, this could very well be it.
