VW Polo Vivo Xpress panel van in SA: price and specs

Volkswagen South Africa has announced its re-entry into the local light duty vehicle segment, with the German marque’s SA arm introducing the Polo Vivo Xpress panel van to our market. See pricing below.

VW Polo Vivo Xpress front

Image: Volkswagen

Announced at Volkswagen Group Africa’s 2026 Indaba, the German automaker’s local arm has re-entered the South African light duty vehicle (LDV) segment with the introduction of the Polo Vivo Xpress panel van. According to the firm, this comes as a response to the “noticeable” growth in the local entry-level delivery-vehicle segment over the past few years. The Polo Vivo Xpress offers a payload capacity of 490 kg.

VW Polo Vivo Xpress Price in SA

The Polo Vivo Xpress panel van is priced from R279 990, making it R8 090 more expensive than its base-spec (55 kW/130 N.m) 1.4-litre passenger sibling and R14 130 less expensive than the 1.4-litre Polo Vivo Life derivative. Included in the price is a three-year/120 000 km warranty. A service/maintenance plan is available at additional cost.

VW Polo Vivo Xpress rear

Image: Volkswagen

Locally built, the Xpress is exclusively available with a 1.4-litre, four-cylinder petrol engine producing the same amount of power and torque as the 1.4-litre Life variant – 63 kW and 132 N.m – which we evaluated for a road test in 2024. Available from 5 000 and 3 750 r/min, respectively, the former and latter are exclusively delivered to the front wheels via a five-speed manual transmission.

VW claims an average fuel consumption of 5.9 L/100 km, which translates to a driving range of just over 760 km from a full 45-litre tank of fuel. Tipping the scales at a claimed 1 097 kg, the panel van dispatches the 0-100 km/h sprint in 12.2 seconds, VW says.

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