Bright prospects for broadened VW SUV – Dagens Industri

New Tiguan is the first SUV Volkswagen based on the so-called MQB platform. Given that the underpinning cars like Golf and Passat, it is no surprise that the new Tiguan is pleasant to drive.

The chassis is safe and the car stable through both curves and difficult terrain. We must, for example, the chance to test the Tiguan on a built obstacle course in Berlin and where do-wheel drive, the five generation Haldex, show what it can do. The surface is dry and sandy, and the grip is never a problem. Presumably handle the car much more demanding conditions than most buyers will subject it to.

A classic test to test the chassis’ torsional rigidity is to remain an obstacle that forces the car to hang on the left front and right rear wheel with other wheels in the air. Since we are testing to open and close the doors. That’s fine, which shows that the building holds together well.

An interesting choice from the Volkswagen Tiguan is only available with four-wheel drive, while many other competitors offer their less SUVs with front wheel drive, and a lower price, as standard. As a customer you weigh, how much do I need all-wheel drive? It’s nice to have four-wheel drive in winter, of course, but at the same time contributes to higher consumption and price.

New Tiguan marks incidentally the start of an SUV offensive by VW that has as stated goal to have an sUV in each segment. After the usual Tiguan will be a version with longer wheelbase, and is also the manufacturer of the time with a different model, a smaller and more compact SUV.

Perhaps this is also why the Tiguan has growing both in width and length, to highlight the difference between future models.

that the car has become more noticeable in both appearance and behavior on the road. A good comparison is that the car feels like a Passat, but with significantly higher ground clearance and seating position.

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Inside the car has spaces become better and it is perceived as airy and spacious. In the rear, the space for the legs well accepted, especially as it is retractable. That’s a feature that also allows the trunk may become so big that it swallows 615 liters. It is an impressive figure to be an SUV, a car type that is otherwise not known to hold as much as the most common estate cars.

In the car that Di Weekend is running the engine will be in the majority of the cars in Sweden, Volkswagen TDI of 2 liters and 190 horsepower. A nice engine that VW has further developed to minimize vibration and noise. On German roads please give it a pleasant noiseless driving. And the power of 190 horsepower means that the run is fun for those who feel like being active with gasfoten.

The interior is recognizable itself, for better or worse. The design is austere and playful is not the word you think of. On the other side are all the controls where you want them, and drivers will find quickly the right. In Sweden, all cars with digital meters in front of the steering wheel and the speedometer and rev can for example choose to get navigation instructions.

Interestingly feels new Tiguan as a strong competitor to the Passat and perhaps above all in Sweden so popular Passat everything Rack. Volkswagen also expects Tiguan in this performance will attract more company drivers and that the mix between private and business sales will shift more towards the business side than before. Obviously, you want the automaker to beat competitors’ SUVs, but it’s probably not too disappointed about the Tiguan gets occasional prospective Passat customer to stay with VW and choose SUV instead.

Since its launch in 2007 the giant from Wolfsburg has sold 2.8 million Tiguan. For advance interest in the new generation of judging, it looks like that VW has a new success at the time. For although “diesel gate”, and the negative publicity that has surrounded the company’s number of orders already large, according to VW.

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And then before any customer has had time to test drive .

in addition, the car is a favorite of car buyers in the German home market. For, although the model is on sale in 170 countries account sales in Germany for the entire 25 per cent of the total volume.

Tiguan has good potential to become a new favoritsuv on company car parks. Remains to be seen if it is mainly taking market share from competitors, or from sibling brand Passat?