VW Tiguan Review

The Volkswagen Tiguan is actually one of the later entrance into the compact SUV segment, only arrived four years ago. There's just one front-wheel drive model in the range below 30,000 and above that it's all all-wheel drive. The sweet spot, well diesel and petrol engines but really probably the best engine is the 118TSI.

Volkswagen is really leading the world in terms of drive train technology and gear boxes and as really put it in a Tiguan. You've got an excellent spread of engines. Choose petrol or diesel, you just can't go wrong. The compact SUV segment is very congested as we know. There are a number of For compassion in take was Rudy haven so for of the technical light arrivals lot things better handling cost in assignment very smooth steering.

It likes to go into corners. Good breaks. It's a very pleasant car to drive. We have to be realistic with most of these compact SUVs. They're not really proper full scale off-roaders. You know, for most buyers that's going to be perfect. Buyers normally opt because they like the higher ride height and the extra practicality they afford over a hatch-back.

Now the Tiguan is actually one of the smaller SUV's that you can buy. And that can be a drawback to that particularly with the boot size. It really is much smaller than you might expect from an SUV. So you will struggle to get things like crams and It invites to be boxed into the smuttle. Something to think about when you are looking at buying a Tiguan is reliability.

Now we've seen that independent quality studies are showing that Volkswagen are not as high as expect them to be. You can also expect the cost of the parts and servicing to be higher than say your typical Korean or Japanese rivals. Volkswagen likes to pitch the Tiguan as one of the more premium offerings, so that means you might be paying a little bit of extra there are plenty of options and get such a set like navigation leather seats you are also going to pay extra for metallic plane that's about seven hundred bucks The Volkswagen Tiguan is something I would definitely have on a short list if you are looking for a compact SUV but there are other strong contenders.

I would certainly put up the Master CX-5 and the KS Toureg [sp?].