Advice please

Our Warwick duo has enough torque to pull it up and down the braes here in Yorkshire, handled the M/Ways last year and returned around 32 mpg.
Boaby

We've just bought a Warwick Duo 9 speed auto with the 140 engine. It’s very early days but the 140 seems plenty powerful enough. Studying power graphs, there is little difference between the 140 and 160 and, again, not much between the 160 and 180. If I was going for the 'bigger' engine, I think the 180 would win because of the double gain.

However, I’m told the Fiat factory stopped production of the autos due to Covid and all that is available in current stock is the 140, and not many of them. Whether that’s true or not, I don’t know but I do know that, after scouring dealerships across the country, the only Warwick Duos I could find were Marquis specials with the 140. Estimates of when a new ordered van would be delivered varied between late 2020 and mid 2021.

I think you really need to see the Nuevo to decide on colours. Can you find a dealership with manual vans on display? That would at least let you see the differences.

Btw, the auto box is smooth as silk and 9 speeds in close range means it doesn’t dither around deciding whether to change or not.

Ask for it to be posted to 3500 instead of 3200kg. No mechanical changes, merely the plate and gives you a useful 300kg extra capacity, particularly valuable with extra MIRO of automatic.