Meet the brand new, extra high-tech Volkswagen Tiguan SUV.
It’ll be right here past due in 2024 or early in 2025, with petrol engines underneath the bonnet… however no plug-in hybrid and, at this level, no point out of a diesel.
Volkswagen says the plug-in was once to start with at the radar, however Australia’s marketplace has moved briefly previous need for that powertrain sort.
“We had been excited by PHEV and we had been having discussions round PHEV however we even have to transport with the marketplace, and I feel the marketplace as you’ve observed has moved relatively hastily,” stated Volkswagen Workforce Australia product and PR communications supervisor Daniel DeGasperi.
The brand new Tiguan includes a design that borrows from the electrical ID.4 SUV and new Passat wagon, and contours extra curves than the present fashion.
Inside of, there’s a free-standing central touchscreen measuring as much as 15 inches diagonally, whilst a rotary knob referred to as the Riding Enjoy Transfer can be utilized to regulate the force mode, stereo quantity, and ambient lights.
There are new menu constructions and graphics at the infotainment gadget and virtual motive force show, and a right kind head-up show that tasks onto the windscreen (now not a pop-up glass display screen) shall be presented.
Volkswagen says it’s over-the-air instrument replace appropriate, and eagle-eyed audience will realize the contact sliders are actually backlit, and the air-conditioning controls stay completely at the display screen.
The tools selector has been moved up close to the tool cluster to disencumber more room at the transmission tunnel.
Baggage house has stepped forward by means of 33 litres to 648 litres with the rear seats in position, whilst regardless of curvier styling the corporate says it has stepped forward headroom by means of 10mm in each the entrance and rear seats.
Measuring 4551mm lengthy, 1939mm vast, and using on a 2681mm wheelbase, the third-generation Tiguan is 32mm longer than lately’s SWB fashion, however stocks that automobile’s width and wheelbase. Wheels as much as 20 inches shall be presented.
Underneath the surface, the Tiguan rides at the MQB Evo structure underpinning cars just like the Golfing and Skoda Octavia, and shall be presented with a collection of diesel, petrol, mild-hybrid, and plug-in hybrid drivetrains, relying available on the market.
In Europe, the 2 petrol-only engine choices are 2.0-litre devices making 150kW and 195kW.
The present Tiguan differ options petrol engines providing between 110kW and 162kW of energy, together with a range-topping R making 235kW.
