Compare live Volkswagen Caddy California Maxi lease deals below from an independent, whole of market broker. The Maxi is the long wheelbase version of Volkswagen's smallest camper, with a fold out bed, a retractable kitchen and five seats. See the standard Caddy California, the larger California, or the rest of the Volkswagen range.
This is the camper you can use as your everyday car, which is the whole point of it. Volkswagen already built the California and the much larger Grand California, and the Caddy California completes the set at the small end: a proper camper that still fits a normal parking space and still does the school run on Monday.
The Maxi is the long wheelbase version, and on a vehicle this size the extra length is the difference between a camper that works and one that feels like a compromise. It is the one we would point most people at.
A foldable bed measuring 1,980mm by 1,070mm, stored in the parcel shelf and opening out above the rear seats. Clever, because it packs away completely when you are not camping.
A retractable mini-kitchen at the rear with a single burner cooker and an integrated gas bottle. It slides out of the back, so you cook standing at the tailgate rather than crouched inside.
Five seats, with the second row removable. Take them out and you have a much more usable space for longer trips, put them back and it is an ordinary family car again.
Camper chairs and a table come as standard, as do window blinds that double as storage bags, plus LED cabin and tailgate lighting. A standalone tail-tent is an option.
The blinds doubling as storage bags is the detail that tells you who designed this. Everything folds into something else, because in a vehicle this size nothing can afford to live in one place only.
Be honest with yourself about the scale and this is an easy car to recommend. The bed is 1,980mm by 1,070mm and the kitchen has one burner, so this is a camper for two people sleeping and five travelling. Weekends away, festivals, surf trips, a base for walking or cycling. It is not a motorhome and it is not pretending to be one.
That is exactly why it works for so many people. If you want a camper you can sleep four in, the larger California is the next step up, and the Grand California is a full campervan with a washroom. The Caddy California Maxi is the one that gets used most weekends rather than sitting on a driveway, because it is also just a car.
Leasing suits a camper better than people expect. A camper bought outright tends to be an expensive asset that sits unused for most of the year, where a lease is a fixed monthly cost with no concern about what it will be worth when you are done with it.
Set the mileage with the holidays in mind, not just the commute, because a camping trip adds miles in large chunks and the excess charge at the end is dearer than buying the miles up front. A maintenance package turns servicing and tyres into one fixed figure. Our leasing guides cover term and mileage, and business leasing explains the position if it is going through a company.
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Two. The foldable bed measures 1,980mm by 1,070mm, which is a double. The vehicle seats five for travelling, so a family can go away in it with the children sleeping in a tent, and a standalone tail-tent is available as an option.
The Maxi is the long wheelbase version. On a camper this small the extra length makes a real difference to how usable the space is once the bed and kitchen are in play, so it is worth pricing both.
Yes, a retractable mini-kitchen at the rear with a single burner cooker and an integrated gas bottle. It slides out of the back so you cook standing at the tailgate rather than inside the vehicle.
It folds away into the parcel shelf and opens out above the rear seats when you need it. That is what makes the Caddy California usable as an everyday car rather than something that only comes out for holidays.
Yes, the second row seats are removable. Taking them out gives you a much more usable space for a longer trip, and putting them back turns it into an ordinary five seat family car again.
Camper chairs and a table, window blinds that double as storage bags, and LED cabin and tailgate lighting. The tail-tent is a separate option.
It depends on how many of you sleep in it. The Caddy California is a camper for two with five seats, which suits weekends away and trips where the vehicle is a base rather than a home. If you need to sleep four, look at the California, and if you want a washroom on board, the Grand California is the one.
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