Anyone own a Hiace ZX (Jumbo)?

[Ocean1]

I've used a Granvia as a rally service and tow van for a mate and it was a bloody good beast. A bit flabby (as one expects with an ubervan) but bloody comfy and the big V6 has plenty of wick. According to him it's super reliable and reasonably hungry (but that does involve towing a rally car, and raping it to remote service spots)
I'm surprised you can chuck a bike up one of them though, thought the floor was fairly high

They're a bit less wallowy with 17/65/225s on them. Although they still grind the edges off the fronts pretty quick, I'm up for another pair now.

The floor is almost 4" lower than a super custom, haven't compared it to a new Hiace.

Granvia... Regular height roof isn't going to give 1.6m of vertical load space, length won't allow much more than a bike only (ie, another row of seats). Re lining, valid point, considered a Hiace commuter for example, but then I have a pile of seats that don't suit me...

A granvia is 1.3 through the rear door, a little more inside that. I can fit my 525 in there by myself easily enough with the LH middle side seat turned sideways so the front wheel goes alongside it. Having said that a jumbo has enough extra height to take your GSAs mirrors, :rolleyes: and length enough to make bike transporting to events etc an easier job.

One other feature you get in a granvia: the rear seats slide fwd to meet the middle seats turned around 180deg. With all of the backrests down you have a passable double bed. It's not a feature I've used often, mostly because it's a pain to refit the rear seats.

[Gremlin]

A granvia is 1.3 through the rear door, a little more inside that. I can fit my 525 in there by myself easily enough with the LH middle side seat turned sideways so the front wheel goes alongside it. Having said that a jumbo has enough extra height to take your GSAs mirrors, and length enough to make bike transporting to events etc an easier job.

One other feature you get in a granvia: the rear seats slide fwd to meet the middle seats turned around 180deg. With all of the backrests down you have a passable double bed. It's not a feature I've used often, mostly because it's a pain to refit the rear seats.

Yeah, mirrors and screen are a touch under 1.6m. Even removing those, the bars, reservoirs etc aren't far behind. Other bikes like tourers, Multistrada etc are also ball park 1.4-1.5m tall.

I'm busy figuring out a custom seating solution (preferably cheaper of course) for 2 rows of seats, that ideally fold, slide and have integrated 3 point seat belts. Making a bed would be a nice goal, but I suspect the list of demands is already too high. Plus they'll need LVV cert.

I was behind an iLoad today, and noticed it has a pretty low loading height. Couldn't find stats, but taking overall height and load space height, it must be 550-600mm. I was wondering why there were no freaken Hiaces around to compare it to, when one drove past, and it's higher. Same calc, the hiace is around 600-650mm. I was pretty satisfied both were lower than the Commodore tailgate until I measured when I got home... it's around 620mm. I think the previous Hiace was higher, but struggling to find specs.