Cavernous is the word here. The Transit Custom upon which the Tourneo is based might be a mid-sized cargo van, but it makes for a vast people-mover. The whole layout is clever, too, thanks to the flexibility of the rear seating and touches like dual side doors (automatic) and loads of storage nooks and cubbies. Rear seat players aren't forgotten, either, and there are climate controls for the second row and air vents and reading lights for both back rows.

The Tourneo offers eight seats, each one a comfy, bucket-style perch rather than a simple bench seat for the second and third rows. The magic is in the way the seats can be slid along the length of the cabin, the seconds seats twirled 180 degrees to form a loungeroom, or even removed altogether to take the Tourneo back to its vanlife roots. The front seats are far enough apart for the cabin to be walk-through and they're also heated and cooled and the driver's chair is 10-way electrically adjustable.

Every Tourneo gets plenty of standard kit that is sometimes optional on other vehicles. That includes the heated and cooled front seats and the 10-way adjustable drivers seat. Wheels are 17-inch alloys and the cabin features both a central info screen as well as a 12-inch screen for the driver's information. There's keyless entry and start and, if you spend the extra on the flagship version, there's also a 360-degree camera system. A panoramic sunroof is a nice touch, but is only available on the up-spec variant and then doesn't open.

The 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbo-diesel engine makes a handy 125kW of power and and even handier 390Nm of torque. It's not a sporty engine, but it does offer a seemless supply of Newton-metres anywhere from idle onwards. It's smooth and very quiet when cruising, too, and is nicely matched to the eight-speed automatic transmission. A column-mounted shifter frees up cabin space between the front seats. The Tourneo is front-wheel drive.

Hardly a priority here, and the turbo-diesel is really tuned for flexibility rather than outright performance. Figure on a 0-100km/h time of about 10 seconds which is more than swift enough.

The standard 70-litre fuel tank should take you around 800km between fills based on our real-world findings. The official combined fuel consumption figure is 7.4 litres per 100km, but we reckon around 8.5 litres is a better guess. You'll also need to add AdBlue every few thousand kilometres.