Volkswagen Caddy
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{{Infobox Automobile |name=Volkswagen Caddy |production=1980– |manufacturer=Volkswagen |class=Commercial van and utility }} The name Volkswagen Caddy has been used by the Volkswagen Group to describe different models.
There have been four different Caddy models. The Mk.1 was derived from the Golf Mk.1, the Mk.2 from the Skoda Felicia, the Mk.3 from the SEAT Ibiza platform, and the Mk.4 from the Volkswagen Touran.
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Caddy Mk.1
Image:20041020 1303 1539-VW Golf1-Caddy.jpg Released in 1980, the first VW Caddy is a light pickup truck and van based on the Volkswagen A platform, shared with the small family car VW Golf Mk.I.
It was also known in North America as the "VW Rabbit Sportruck" (the Caddy nameplate was not used in the U.S. since it was slang for Cadillacs), which competed with other mini-pickups such as the Ford Courier of that time.
As of 2006, they are still produced in South Africa. The stamping equipment was shipped from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, the home of Volkswagen's only US manufacturing plant, now defunct.
Caddy Mk.2
In 1997 VW rebadged a Skoda Felicia Utility (which is a supermini) to help widen the Caddy range.
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Caddy Mk.3
Released in 1996, the Volkswagen Caddy Mk. 3 was a light van designed by the Spanish SEAT design team and derived from the former SEAT Ibiza Mk. 2/VW Polo Mk.3 platform, sharing the front body panels with the Ibiza. It was built in Spain, at the Martorell factory of SEAT. Its twin the SEAT Inca was quickly phased out when SEAT started its career in the sports branch of the VW Group.
This version of the Caddy was built from 1997 to 2003 in Europe. It's still under production in Argentina for the Latin American market, it received a cosmetic facelift in 2005, similar to the Polo Mk.3 recently facelifted.
Caddy Mk.4
The new Caddy for sale now in Europe since 2005 is a leisure activity vehicle based upon the VW Golf Mk.V platform, resembling the compact MPV Touran, and is assembled at the Poznan factory of Volkswagen in Poland.
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