This isn’t a sort of auto we evaluation fairly often right here at CarExpert, however the Iveco Daily E6 in sure configurations, together with this one, can nonetheless be pushed with a daily automobile licence.
On take a look at here’s a 2024 Iveco Daily E6 Van 4×2 with 12 cubic metres of rear cargo capability. Sure this isn’t an impressive determine in van phrases, however in comparison with dual-cab utes that is significantly extra cargo capability.
The Daily E6 Van has a braked towing capability of 3500kg like nearly all of dual-cab utes, nevertheless it has a payload of greater than 1500kg. This is significantly greater than what dual-cab utes just like the Ford Ranger and Toyota HiLux supply.
The van may also be loaded all the best way as much as the utmost payload and nonetheless tow a 3500kg braked trailer. This definitely isn’t one thing all dual-cab utes can boast.
Iveco claims the Daily E6 Van is right for rental fleets, tradespeople, couriers, emergency companies, in addition to a campervan, amongst different use instances requiring a excessive payload and towing determine.
Is this automobile price contemplating in a ute-dominated market? Read alongside to seek out out.
How a lot does the Iveco Daily value?
As a base, the 2024 Iveco Daily E6 Van 4×2 begins off at $69,483 earlier than on-road prices for the 35S Van with a rear cargo space measuring 7m3.
The Iveco Daily E6 35S Van, as examined right here, with the bigger non-obligatory 12-cubic-metre rear cargo space.
It was additionally geared up with the non-obligatory Hi-Business ($1760) and Hi-Tech Packs ($2750), non-obligatory 16-inch alloy wheels ($495), non-obligatory ZF-sourced eight-speed computerized transmission ($4565), in addition to metallic paint ($4151).
Including all of the non-obligatory extras fitted, out take a look at van value $90,437 earlier than on-roads prices.
This is notably dearer than numerous equally sized Fiat Ducato LWB MR Van ($60,022), Ford Transit 350E computerized ($63,490), LDV Deliver 9 LWB HR Van ($51,042 D/A), Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 415CDI LWB ($80,804), Renault Master LWB ($59,050 D/A), and Volkswagen Crafter 35 TDI340 LWB ($65,030).
What is the Iveco Daily like on the within?
Walking as much as the Iveco Daily it clearly has some presence. It’s basically a big field on wheels and that may be a bit of intimidating when you want to climb a number of steps to get into the motive force’s seat.
Thankfully there are some hefty seize handles to make the climb up into the van a contact simpler.
As customary the Daily comes with a three-seat configuration, together with a two-person bench on the passenger aspect. All the seats are completed in a black cloth upholstery with an inoffensive design. There’s additionally ‘Daily’ embroidered onto the headrests, which is a neat contact.
Just like a bus or a truck, the motive force’s seat is suspended. This means the seat can iron lumps and bumps which can be transmitted into the van’s cabin. You’re capable of dial up or down the quantity of rebound power the seat offers utilizing a dial.
All the motive force’s seat changes are guide, which to be anticipated in this type of automobile. Surprisingly nevertheless, the motive force’s seat is heated. This is characteristic that’s uncommon in automobiles with cloth seats and it is useful on cool Melbourne mornings.
The driver’s seat itself is comfy and supportive sufficient for sitting over lengthy intervals of time, although you possibly can’t escape the actual fact you’re sitting up extraordinarily excessive. If you’re not used to sitting up this excessive in a automobile it might probably take a while to regulate.
Ahead of the motive force is a plastic steering wheel that has each tilt and attain adjustment. You can choice a leather-wrapped steering wheel as a part of the non-obligatory Hi-Comfort Pack. It wasn’t geared up to our tester nevertheless.
Steering wheel attain adjustment is uncommon in these sorts of economic automobiles. It’s additionally essential for individuals with longer legs, like myself.
It seems Iveco has sourced a number of the Daily’s inside {hardware} from someplace throughout the Stellantis group as its steering wheel buttons, together with those mounted behind the steering wheel for audio controls, appear to be feel and appear like those in a Jeep.
This extends to the plasticky and cheap-feeling indicator and wiper stalks that additionally really feel like they’re from a Jeep.
Behind the steering wheel are a set of clear analogue dials for the revs and speedometer. These dials sandwich a 3.5-inch digital instrument cluster that’s clear sufficient and has a primary interface.
Drivers are capable of cycle by a variety of informative pages on the digital instrument cluster utilizing the steering wheel buttons. Page views embrace a digital speedometer readout, journey laptop, gasoline economic system, automobile info, amongst others. Frustratingly just one web page may be seen at a time.
Moving throughout there’s a touchscreen infotainment system that appears to be reskinned model of Stellantis’ UConnect infotainment system. Although Iveco doesn’t quote an official dimension for the touchscreen, it’s protected to say it’s on the smaller aspect. It’s additionally a little bit of stretch to succeed in from the motive force’s seat.
The touchscreen seems to have sufficient processing energy, which suggests it boots up shortly upon startup and new pages open snappily.
Wired Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are provided as customary. With my iPhone 15 Pro Max plugged in utilizing a USB cable, Apple CarPlay labored advantageous however would unusually glitch when enjoying a tune once in a while.
This was one of many few instances I skilled glitches with wired smartphone mirroring. Typically this type of connection is rock strong until the USB cable begins to grow to be defective.
Our tester got here geared up with the non-obligatory Hi-Business Pack which provides TomTom-based satellite tv for pc navigation to the touchscreen infotainment system, in addition to LED headlights, fog lights, and a wi-fi telephone charger.
The latter of those is mounted on prime of the dashboard in a particular space for storing, which I imagine is a perfect place for it. Its location means it received’t slip and slide round if you happen to brake, speed up, or flip round a nook.
Further down the Daily comes as customary with guide air-conditioning. Climate management is obtainable as a part of the non-obligatory Hi-Comfort Pack that wasn’t fitted to our tester.
Like numerous business vans, the Iveco Daily E6 Van has loads of storage choices. There’s an overhead console with a storage shelf, tradie-style dashboard cupholders and gloveboxes galore.
As famous above, there’s a two-person bench seat on the passenger aspect. The center seat has a fold-down armrest with a built-in clipboard, whereas each passenger seat bases may also fold upwards to disclose extra space for storing.
Looking across the Daily’s inside there are a variety of darkish finishes and most of them are more durable plastics. This is to be anticipated given the business focus of such a automobile and the way it’s meant to final in the long term.
Moving round to the aspect of the van there’s a single sliding door on the passenger aspect. This makes a variety of sense in right-hand drive markets like Australia as a result of the door is on the kerbside.
You’re capable of choice a second sliding aspect door on the motive force’s aspect, however this wasn’t geared up to our tester.
At the rear there are twin rear barn duals that may open at a most of 270 levels. The doorways even have a stops at 90 levels.
There are giant steps at each the aspect and rear doorways to make stepping into the rear cargo compartment simpler, in addition to a useful seize handles.
Our tester had a rear compartment capability of 12 cubic metres. It measures in at 3540mm lengthy, 1740mm huge, and 1900mm tall.
There isn’t a lot by way of facilities within the rear cargo space other than tie-down factors for no matter you select to load in there.
What’s below the bonnet?
The Iveco Daily E6 Van is obtainable in a numerous variety of physique type and powertrain configurations.
The automobile on take a look at right here is in the direction of the smaller finish within the vary and is technically referred to as the Daily E6 35S Van with a 12 cubic metre van field physique. It may be pushed on a daily automobile licence in Australia.
There are numerous different 35S variants with completely different cargo capacities, in addition to heavier-duty 50C and 70C variants accessible in a wealth of configurations, together with cab-chassis and 4×4 variations. Some of the heavier-duty variants require a Light Rigid (LR) licence as their gross automobile lots (GVMs) exceed 4.5 tonnes.
Our tester was fitted with a 2.3-litre four-cylinder turbo-diesel engine with 100kW of energy and 350Nm of torque, which is the smallest and least highly effective engine provided within the Daily. More highly effective 3.0-litre four-cylinder turbo-diesel engines with 132kW/430Nm and 155kW/470Nm can be found.
As customary the Daily comes geared up with a six-speed guide transmission, however a ZF-sourced eight-speed computerized transmission is obtainable as an non-obligatory further – this was geared up to our tester.
How does the Iveco Daily drive?
It’s price flagging we drove this van with a pallet of AdBlue strapped down within the rear. It weighed round 900kg, which was used to simulate a real-world driving state of affairs.
Starting up the Iveco Daily van you want to flip a bodily key to fireplace the two.3-litre four-cylinder turbo-diesel engine to life. It’s a business automobile in spite of everything, so don’t anticipate something too fancy like proximity entry and push-button begin.
Initially there’s a little bit of clatter that comes from the turbo-diesel engine, however that’s to be anticipated. Thankfully as soon as the engine warms up the noise dies down a bit of and the vibrations grow to be much less harsh.
When you go to set off you first want to know how the Daily’s gear selector works. It’s a strange-looking unit, however operates basically just like the Toyota Prius’ and after some time turns into very intuitive.
You push the gear selector throughout to the left for impartial, then both up or down for reverse or drive. Park is chosen by urgent a button on the prime of the gear selector. In its default place it’s also possible to push up or down when driving to pick the ‘Eco’ or ‘Pwr’ drive modes. ‘Eco’ is the usual drive mode.
Despite the modest outputs of 100kW and 350Nm, the Daily Van remains to be highly effective sufficient to maintain up with city site visitors. Don’t expect to tug away from vehicles nevertheless, if you happen to’re that manner inclined.
What the Daily lacks in outright efficiency it makes up for with an extremely smooth-shifting computerized transmission. The ZF-sourced unit is non-obligatory and I can’t suggest it extra – gear shifts are seamless and surprisingly fast given it’s a business automobile.
Although it might initially appear a bit of overwhelming to be driving a automobile so unwieldy – it was too tall to suit into our workplace carpark – the Daily’s mild steering makes it really feel smaller than it’s.
There’s even a perform you possibly can activate that makes the steering even lighter. This is useful whenever you’re needing to show tightly and shortly in low-speed eventualities, together with tight city streets and three-point turns.
Even although the steering may be made tremendous mild it doesn’t correctly disguise how giant the van is. Our tester had a kerb-to-kerb turning circle of 12 metres.
As customary the Iveco Daily E6 Van comes with reverse digicam and rear parking sensors. It additionally has a reversing buzzer which permits me to fulfil my heavy-duty truck driving fantasy (see the photographs of me carrying the fluorescent jacket).
Something that took me some time to get used to driving the Daily was the shortage of a rear-view mirror. There’s no want for one due to the bulkhead separating the cabin and rear cargo sections.
I saved on trying within the route of the place a rear-view mirror would usually be once I first set out on the highway, however after some time I received used to it not being there.
What the Daily has as a substitute of a correct rear-view mirror is absolutely giant aspect mirrors with common and convex mirror sections. These don’t fully make up for the shortage of a rear-view mirror by way of visibility, however it undoubtedly helps make driving a automobile this massive really feel only a bit simpler.
Something that might be useful within the Daily nevertheless is blind-spot monitoring. The van is huge and typically it’s exhausting to gauge how far forward of a automobile you might be earlier than merging right into a lane.
Around city the Daily’s suspension is absolutely compliant and settled. It’s capable of offers with pace bumps like a champ.
I’m placing this compliant suspension all the way down to having the 900kg of payload over the rear axle. Leaf-sprung rear suspension setups in business automobiles are usually actually agency and harsh when unladen.
There’s additionally the suspended driver’s seat that may iron out the harsher lumps and bumps which can be transmitted into the cabin. If you’ve received it dialled again nevertheless the seat can get bouncy nevertheless, which may make the driving expertise a bit of nauseating.
Building up pace within the Daily E6 Van is when the bounds of the two.3-litre four-cylinder turbo-diesel engine begin to current themselves. The van isn’t overtly sluggish by any means, however it’s additionally not very fast.
You actually need to plan out your overtaking manoeuvres as a result of if you happen to’re not cautious you’ll be caught out.
When you actually punch the van’s accelerator it doesn’t rev all the best way out to redline. For reference, peak energy is delivered at 3600rpm and peak torque is delivered at 1500rpm.
Once you’re at freeway speeds the Daily E6 Van finds a snug groove and retains the revs down low. If required, the transmission will willingly kick down a few gears to get issues transferring a bit faster.
Even at freeway speeds the van nonetheless feels actually huge and virtually truck-like. It takes up virtually your entire lane and I discovered I used to be continually making small steering inputs to maintain it going straight.
On the security entrance, your entire Iveco Daily E6 vary comes with adaptive cruise management. When turned on it really works seamlessly and precisely the way you suppose it ought to.
The non-obligatory Hi-Technology Pack additionally provides a City Brake perform which prefills the braking system for a quicker response if it detects an imminent collision.
Other security options included within the Hi-Technology Pack contains Queue Assist, lane departure warning and lane hold help.
The latter of those features largely retains you centred within the lane, although it feels prefer it tugs on the wheel a bit an excessive amount of. I most popular to change it off when driving.
What do you get?
Iveco Daily E6 35S Van highlights:
- 16-inch metal wheels
- Full-size spare wheel
- Daytime working lights
- Heated, electrically adjustable aspect mirrors
- Sliding aspect door
- Rear barn doorways (open 270 levels)
- Rear step
- 3.5-inch digital instrument cluster
- Touchscreen infotainment system
- Wired Apple CarPlay, Android Auto
- DAB+ digital radio
- 4-speaker sound system
- Electric home windows
- Air conditioning
- Electric park brake
- Suspended, heated driver’s seat
- Bench seat with storage and fold-down desk
- Overhead console with storage shelf
- Load lashing rings in cargo compartment
Options
Our tester was additionally fitted with the next non-obligatory packages.
Hi-Business Pack: $1760
- LED headlights
- Fog lights
- Open dashboard storage
- USB level
- Wireless charger
- Satellite navigation
Hi-Technology Pack: $2750
- Automatic high-beam
- City Brake
- Queue Assist
- Lane departure warning
- Lane hold help
- Traction plus
- Hill descent management
Our tester was additionally fitted with non-obligatory 16-inch alloy wheels ($495), eight-speed ZF computerized transmission ($4565), and metallic paint ($4151).
Although the Hi-Comfort Pack wasn’t fitted to our tester it provides the next:
- Rain-sensing wipers
- Automatic headlights
- Climate management
- Leather-wrapped steering wheel
- Tyre stress monitoring
Other accessible non-obligatory extras embrace:
- Rear air suspension
- Dual sliding doorways
- Suspended and heated passenger seat
- Crosswind help
Is the Iveco Daily protected?
The Iveco Daily hasn’t been crash examined by ANCAP. The European-spec mannequin nevertheless was awarded Bronze by Euro NCAP in 2023 as a part of its business van rankings.
Standard security gear on the E6 Van vary contains:
- 4 airbags
- Autonomous emergency braking (AEB)
- Adaptive cruise
- Rear parking sensors
- Reversing digicam
The non-obligatory Hi-Technology Pack provides:
- Automatic high-beam
- City brake
- Queue help
- Lane departure warning
- Lane hold help
- Traction plus
- Hill descent management
How a lot does the Iveco Daily value to run?
The 2024 Iveco Daily E6 Van is roofed by a three-year, 250,000km guarantee. An prolonged guarantee that covers the automobile for as much as 5 years/300,000km is obtainable at an additional value.
Logbook servicing is required each 12 months or 50,000km, whichever comes first. Yes, you learn that accurately, each 50,000km.
Iveco Australia presents three-, four- and five-year service packages for the Daily E6. The most complete model of those service packages is named Easy Road and prices $6300 for 3 years, $13,050 for 4 years, and $18,850 for 5 years.
CarExpert’s Take on the Iveco Daily
The Iveco Daily E6 Van is a extremely fascinating and intensely succesful automobile that fills a distinct segment for a lot of fleet prospects, although seemingly will get ignored as an choice for personal consumers.
This is perhaps put down partially to the value of the Daily because it’s dearer than just about all of its van rivals.
What makes this type of automobile distinctive is it’s capability to be loaded up all the best way to the utmost payload determine, after which nonetheless legally have the ability to tow a 3.5-tonne braked trailer. Virtually no dual-cab ute is able to doing this.
The typical van field physique type on take a look at right here received’t essentially win over each single purchaser in Australia, although don’t neglect Iveco additionally presents a dual-cab-chassis model of the Daily.
Even higher there’s a 4×4 model of the Daily if that tickles your fancy. Once you begin heading on this heavy-duty route nevertheless you begin reaching the higher echelons of what you possibly can legally drive on a daily automobile licence.
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Pros
- Can be pushed with a automobile license
- Massive payload determine
- Oodles of inside storage choices
Cons
- Quite costly with non-obligatory extras
- Extremely giant
- Runs out of puff at excessive speeds
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