Renault Trafic dimensions: L1H1 to L2H2 — and the Vivaro, NV300 and Talento twins

A Renault Trafic is 1.66 m wide inside on every variant. L1 or L2 means 2.54 m or 2.94 m of cargo floor; H1 or H2 means 1.38 m or 1.91 m of headroom — and 1.97 m or 2.50 m outside. Two lengths, two roofs, four vans. The height question people bring to it is really two questions — can I stand, does it fit the car park — and the two roofs answer them the opposite way round.

Below are the four variants in the planner’s database, inside and out, with the payload each one leaves after a real build. The figures are the Trafic III (X82, 2014–2021 body), read from Renault’s Austrian, German and UK documents and checked September 2026 — and the Vauxhall/Opel Vivaro built to 2019, the Nissan NV300 and the Fiat Talento are the same van and share every number.

The four variants, measured

Interior length is bulkhead to rear doors, width is between the walls (only 1.27 m between the wheel arches), height is floor to headliner before a build. The two lengths are two wheelbases, 3.10 m and 3.50 m, so the L2 is not an L1 with more overhang: the extra 0.40 m of floor sits between the axles. The 2021 facelift added bumper length and changed nothing inside; the table is the pre-facelift body.

1.38 m or 1.91 m: the roof is the standing decision

The H1 is 1.38 m raw, about 1.31 m once a floor and ceiling are in. Nobody stands in that; it is a sit-down van like a Vito or a standard-roof Transporter, and the answer to evenings inside is a pop-top, not the other length. The H2 is 1.91 m raw and about 1.84 m finished — an adult of that height stands straight, anyone taller stoops. Compare the standing-height table: it puts the Trafic H2 among the vans that stand most people and the H1 among the ones that stand nobody.

The high roof costs 99 kg of kerb weight on the L1 and 129 kg on the L2, and it costs the car park.

1.97 m or 2.50 m: the roof is the car-park decision too

An empty H1 is 1.97 m tall — under a 2.00 m barrier with a few centimetres to spare, and over a 1.90 m one. Fit a domed roof fan and it stands 2.12 m: over every barrier. A flat solar laminate keeps it under 2.00, a fan does not, and the two do not stack — the tallest fitting sets the height. The barrier comparison runs the arithmetic fitting by fitting.

The H2 is 2.50 m and never parks under a barrier, fan or no fan. So the choice is exactly this: stand inside, or park in town. No Trafic variant does both.

1.66 m between the walls: the bed goes lengthways

1.66 m between the bare walls, 1.60 m once insulated and panelled. The sleep-across rule — your height plus 5 cm — gives a sleeper of at most 1.55 m: nobody, in practice. The bed runs lengthways, and its width is set by the 1.27 m between the wheel arches if it sits on the floor, or by the full width if it rides above them. The sleep-across table runs the same arithmetic for every van.

What fits in each length

A lengthways double takes 1.90 m of floor. What is left in front of it is the whole build:

• L1 — 2.54 m of floor, 0.64 m in front of the bed. A rock-and-roll bed and a box or a fridge behind the driver’s seat; the kitchen slides out of the rear doors on a drawer. In the H1 it is a weekend van that is still a car on Monday; in the H2 it is the smallest van you can stand in.
• L2 — 2.94 m of floor, 1.04 m in front of the bed. The length that fits a rock-and-roll bed and a kitchen console behind the driver’s seat, or a fixed solo platform along one wall with a real kitchen opposite. In the H2 with overhead lockers it is the two-person live-in van of this class.

The archetypes themselves — rock-and-roll bed, fold-out bench, solo platform, tailgate drawer — are in the small-van layouts post, drawn against these very numbers.

2,900 kg to 3,020 kg gross: the plate moves with the body

Renault plates each body separately — 2,900 kg for an L1H1 up to 3,020 kg for an L2H2 — so the heavier bodies get a little more plate but not enough: payload runs from 1,194 kg on the L2H1 down to 1,085 kg on the L1H2. A minimal 350 kg build — bed, insulation, 40 L of water, 100 Ah, a hob — plus the EN 1646-2 two-person reserve leaves 669 kg on an L1H1 and 626 kg on an L2H2; the 600 kg reference build of the table leaves 445 kg at best and 340 kg at worst. A pop-top on an H1 eats a good share of that on its own.

Source line. Kerb weights are Renault UK’s 2016 figures plus a 75 kg driver, paired with the gross weight from the same sheet; Renault prints a range per engine, and the plate on the van in front of you wins. The small-van payload comparison puts the Trafic next to the Vito, Transporter, Custom and Expert.

Vivaro, NV300, Talento, Primastar: one van — and the Vivaro year matters

Renault builds the Trafic III in Sandouville and three other badges wore it: the Vauxhall/Opel Vivaro from 2014 to 2019 (Vivaro B), the Nissan NV300 from 2016 to 2021 (renamed Primastar after), and the Fiat Talento from 2016 to 2020. Floor, walls, roofs, wheelbases and door apertures are identical, so every figure above is theirs and a layout drawn for one fits the others unchanged.

The trap is the Vivaro badge. From 2019 the Vivaro C is a Peugeot Expert under a Vauxhall grille — the Stellantis body shared with the Toyota ProAce and the Fiat Scudo: 1.63 m wide and 1.40 m high inside, 2.16 m to 2.86 m of floor, 1.94 m outside at most, and no high roof at all. A used listing that says “Vivaro L2H1” is a Trafic body if it is 2019 or older; a newer one is an Expert body and shares none of the numbers above. The planner files the 2019-on Vivaro under the Expert pages, and the twins post draws the full map.

Which Trafic for which build

• L1H1 — weekends, surf, bikes: rock-and-roll bed and rear drawer, 5.00 m long and 1.97 m tall, so it parks anywhere. Best payload after the L2H1.
• L2H1 — the same car-park height with 1.04 m in front of the bed: bed and kitchen console, or solo platform and galley. The best payload in the range at 1,194 kg.
• L2H2 — the live-in Trafic: 2.94 m of floor, standing room for most adults, overhead lockers. 2.50 m tall, so town car parks are out, and 376 kg left after a full build.
• L1H2 — standing room in the shortest body; the rarest variant and the lowest payload, 1,085 kg before a build.

The planner puts your layout in the real variant, with the wheel arches at 1.27 m apart, weight and axle loads live. Because L and H mean something different on every make, the body-code decoder is worth a look before cross-shopping: a Trafic L2 is 2.94 m of floor, and the same code on a Master, a Ducato or a Sprinter is a different length every time.

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