560kg maximum payload?

[oxfordpaul]

Is that true?

Because that's not very much at all, 8 x 70kg passengers with no luggage.

any thoughts.

[mikeonb4c]

Is that true?

Because that's not very much at all, 8 x 70kg passengers with no luggage.

any thoughts.

I don't really 'do' payloads, within reason

I know I'm about to get a shouting down from the righteous about insurance risk etc. but I reckon that lot are a bunch of wheedlers anyway and lifes too short and when my daughter had several friends all needing a lift back from her 18th birthday party, we put 9 in the Bongo and drove quite happily, taking it gently round bends and avoiding potholes. The electric blinds were handy as noone could see what the payload was

PS - With 8 in, there's precious little space for luggage so I guess that means the approach used by many hotel courtesy minibuses comes into play i.e. use a trailer, which doesn't add to gross payload problem

[patnben]

In Europe, we rely on the manufacturers specified MAM, Maximum Authorised Mass.
MAM - Unladen Weight = Payload. There does not appear to be an equivalent specification
for MAM in Japan - I could be wrong - so you have to make an educated guess for the
payload.

As an 8 seater, does this mean you can carry 8 Sumo wrestlers and their equipment, or
does it only allow for 8 normal size Japanese persons ?. As this could be an insurance
issue, and a point in law if involved in an accident, it's about time we cleared this up
to everyone's satisfaction.

[helen&tony]

Hi Mike
You should have seen the load We carried to Bulgaria.... ....Those folk you mention would have had kittens...how the Bongo coped I have no idea. We also had a fully overloaded caravan as well ....I sincerely thought the Bongo would blow up. Every few hundred miles we had to stop to cool the transmission for an hour or so before it would drive again....at one point we were crawling up the pointy obstacles (mountains), at 20MPH in an appallingly overestimated need to get to the top without stopping ...When I look back, I think how robust the thing must be to endure the trial...one thing, the brakes are the best I've had on any car....damned thing stops on a dime....even loaded to the gun'als
Cheers
Helen