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- The exquisite boredom of the VW Tiguan
- Seat Ateca – The Spanish version of the Tiguan
- The car even climbs down a flight of stairs
- The VW Budd-e can be controlled with gestures
- The design is less sexy than the Passat
- Big, bigger, SUV – the milestones
- There are even more SUVs from VW
The exquisite boredom of the VW Tiguan
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The new VW Tiguan can do more off-road than one would normally expect an SUV to do. But it does everything with electronics (here: hill descent control), there is no off-road reduction…t.
Source: Stefan Anker
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The strong emphasis on the horizontal in the radiator grille is striking in the design. This design somewhat hides the fact that the bonnet is higher than its predecessor.
Source: Stefan Anker
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The belt line has also moved up, and the ground clearance of the Tiguan versions with all-wheel drive is eleven millimeters higher than that of the front-wheel drive. Stay with it… 20 centimeters of air under the floor, what …
Source: Stefan Anker
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… not enough for every hump, but helps the Tiguan to be approved as an off-road vehicle in Europe. By the way, if a bike is hanging in the air, that’s no problem: It …is braked electronically and the power goes …
Source: Stefan Anker
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… the wheels that are in contact with the ground. Incidentally, the off-road front, which is subject to a surcharge, can be seen here (160 to 330 euros, depending on the equipment), it offers 25.6 instead of 18.3 degrees of gust…shear angle.
Source: Stefan Anker
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Even from the outside it is easy to see that the now 4.49 meter long Tiguan is quite spacious inside.
Source: Stefan Anker
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The cockpit is at the usual VW level, the display in the middle is joined by the active info display, which shows the speedometer and tachometer digitally and variably…ellt
Source: Volkswagen
Anyone who wants to drive an SUV should take a look at the new VW Tiguan – it is a perfect representative of its kind: modern, good-looking, spacious. But the car is missing something: sex.
E.It doesn’t happen that often at an advanced age, but I’ve learned a new German word: tiguane. At first I thought I had misheard, but then Thomas Treptow said it again: VW sold 240,000 Tiguanas last year.
And Treptow should know, after all, he heads product marketing for compact derivatives at VW – a difficult title, but more on that later. In any case, Treptow is something like the top Tiguan disciple in Wolfsburg, and in this respect its plural is almost law: Tiguan.
VW has sold 2.8 million of them since 2007, generation two is now starting, and because the first including facelift lasted around nine years, no sheet metal was left unturned in the new Tiguan.
Seat Ateca – The Spanish version of the Tiguan
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Seat charges 19,900 euros for its first SUV, the Ateca. For this you get the 1.0 TSI with three cylinders and 115 PS. For comparison: For the cheapest Tiguan, the 1.4 TSI with 12…5 HP, you currently pay 25,625 euros.
Source: Seat
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The Ateca is not supposed to be a Tiguan competitor either, at least that’s what Seat claims. "With the Ateca we are primarily targeting models like the Nissan Qashqai," says Ulric…h Selzer, responsible for global sales.
Source: Seat
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Seat can deliberately keep a tight margin on the prices, after all, you didn’t have to pay for the sinfully expensive development costs on your own. Much comes from the corporate shelf of the… Mother in Wolfsburg. Mainly these are the chassis and the entire drive architecture.
Source: Seat
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The lines of the Ateca, on the other hand, are reminiscent of the in-house Leon. At 4.36 meters, Seat’s first SUV is about the same size as the first Tiguan. The wheelbase is 2.64 meters.
Source: Seat
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The driver is greeted by sportily contoured seats and a classic, functional cockpit with clearly laid out instruments and an 8-inch display in the center of the dashboard. D.…Below are the usual rotary controls for air conditioning and ventilation. Nobody should be overwhelmed when it comes to operation.
Source: Seat
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While the driver and front passenger sit comfortably, the rear is a bit cramped – especially for adults. But fit into the …
Source: Seat
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… Trunk quite generous 510 liters. However, only with the front-wheel drive variant. The all-wheel drive version loses 25 liters.
Source: Seat
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But with it you can even dare to go into easier terrain – even if very few will probably do so.
Source: Seat
First of all, of course: the diesel engines. “They’re clean,” announced Karlheinz Hell, who has been responsible for all of the brand’s compact vehicles since April 1, 2016. There are now three other series managers in Wolfsburg (for small, for large and for electrically powered VW vehicles), and they should act like entrepreneurs in the company. The goal is nothing less than a cultural change – the board should no longer take care of every screw, every press photo, but should only be responsible for strategically important decisions.
Of course, this also includes giving managers like Hell the support of what they say about the cleanliness of the engines. However, this is not difficult in the case of the four TDI four-cylinder engines offered for the Tiguan: They are all certified according to the EU6 emissions standard and have SCR exhaust gas cleaning with urea injection on board – the cheat diesels that were blown in the USA come from the previous generation with EU5 and without SCR.
So when I carefully steer the Tiguan 2.0 TDI (from 33,925 euros) over an off-road course with a grumbling idle, then I really only have to concentrate on the route and not think about whether everything is correct under the hood. I don’t have to wrestle with the accelerator and clutch either, the on-board electronics take care of everything in conjunction with the dual clutch transmission.
The car even climbs down a flight of stairs
I can’t do everything with idle, but the steep incline is easy to negotiate for the 150 hp engine and all-wheel drive. Basically the Tiguan has no off-road gear reduction, but I can switch all influenceable systems (shift strategy, dampers, steering, etc.) to optimal off-road suitability using a rotary control in the center console.
You could of course also think about what to do with the car on sandy mogul slopes. This is, so to speak, a sheltered workshop, all kinds of VW instructors are ready to help, they have tested the route in advance, there is no real risk here – even if the small wooden stairs that I climb down with the Tiguan are very impressive.
But who will do that in everyday life? Even if he ordered Area View, the 890 euro all-round camera (including reversing camera), which really shows on the display everything that is happening directly in front of the front wheels and what you cannot even suspect from the driver’s seat. Great, superfluous technology, fate will hardly send the Tiguanas that will be sold off-road, but rather allow them to commute between the supermarket and daycare center.
The VW Budd-e can be controlled with gestures
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The Budd-e stands for the reorientation at Volkswagen. The group wants to become a driving force in the networking of automobiles. The wheels of the study …
Source: Ingo Barenschee
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… rumble still a little, but the two electric motors on the axles together produce 225 kW and ensure that the minivan starts up in less than seven seconds… Reached a speed of 100 kilometers per hour. In the cockpit …
Source: Ingo Barenschee
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… A three-part panorama screen awaits the driver. The software architecture of the Budd-e is already designed to knock out household appliances at home in the apartment…mmunicate. On the interior …
Source: Ingo Barenschee
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… However, the VW designers will still have to work. The rear seats are somewhat reminiscent of a corner bench in the kitchen-living room of a row house from the 1970s. And that touch…ineless opening of the tailgate …
Source: Ingo Barenschee
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… with one foot movement is already known from various series vehicles. But with the Budd-e, many other functions can be controlled with a hand movement. As a future vision …
Source: Ingo Barenschee
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… The spacious concept vehicle should also help to reconcile US customers after the emissions scandal.
Source: Ingo Barenschee
At least that’s what I take from the experimental setup for this test: VW sends the motor journalists who have traveled through Berlin’s city traffic. A car rarely or never revs up here, and the trip is not subject to amusement tax either. But it is as realistic as it can be.
So let’s be clear: you sit a bit higher in the new Tiguan and enjoy good all-round visibility, even at an angle to the rear. If you sit in the back seat, you really win, because the car is now on the new Group platform MQB: This moves the axles eight centimeters further apart, which is really important in automotive engineering, and three centimeters more knee room has jumped out for the rear passengers – that is the difference between Easyjet and Lufthansa.
The trunk has grown by 50 to 520 liters, the loading sill has been lowered by four to 72 centimeters, and whoever pushes the rear bench seat 18 centimeters forward can use 615 liters of storage space – plus 1040 liters if the rear seat backrests are in a 60:40 ratio folded down and creates an almost flat loading area.
The design is less sexy than the Passat
We don’t need to go into any further detail, because everyone knew it anyway: the VW Tiguan is a solid and practical car. This is also what the new design exudes. While the very consistently horizontal front section looks more self-confident than before, and even looks almost aggressive, the rest of the car speaks primarily about family suitability. The crouched, wide body of the Passat goes perfectly with the strictly horizontal grill sections that VW designs today – the tall Tiguan looks much less sexy, it almost looks like a van.
But that will not diminish its success, because in its exquisite boredom it promises to be visually sustainable – a car that you don’t have to be ashamed of even after five, six or more years.
And technically he is of course absolutely up to date. The engines have good pressure for everyday use, they are neither loud nor quiet, and on paper they consume little – after the excursion into the terrain, I switched to a 2.0 TSI with 180 petrol hp (from 34,450 euros), the 7 , 3 liters is specified. The steering and chassis work inconspicuously to make it easy and comfortable for the driver, the quality is good, even if the trend towards hard plastic is noticeable below the dashboard. This is particularly unpleasant on the center console.
Big, bigger, SUV – the milestones
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The Jeep Willys MB was as loyal as a dog, strong as a mule and nimble as a mountain goat: the mother of all off-road vehicles was developed in 1940 for the US Army.
Source: picture alliance / dpa-tmn
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In the period from 1941 to 1945, 600,000 copies of the war jeep rolled off the assembly line. A well-preserved vehicle costs around 20,000 euros today, a multiple of the previous Pr…ice cream from $ 739.
Source: picture alliance / dpa-tmn
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With the Willys MB, pure functionality is in the foreground, because the military off-road vehicle should prove itself on bombed roads and desert slopes.
Source: picture alliance / dpa-tmn
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The Land Rover Defender was (and is) indestructible and uncomfortable …
Source: Jaguar / Land Rover
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… has been built since 1948, and almost unchanged. Since the body shape of the Defender, however …
Source: Stefan Anker
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… is no longer compatible with the EU directives on pedestrian protection, the cult car will be discontinued at the end of 2015.
Source: Stefan Anker
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Spartan and also indestructible is the Lada Niva, the Soviet answer to the Land Rover, which has been built in Togliatti, Russia, since 1977.
Source: dpa-tmn
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The car has been called Lada Taiga since 2013.
Source: lada
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Streamlined like a single-family home: the first Mercedes G-Class came onto the market in 1979. The angular shape has hardly changed since then.
Source: Daimler
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The G-Class is considered a timeless classic that can be used to go hunting or to park in front of the opera. The latter is likely to be rather difficult with the near-series show car G 63 AMG 6×6…get eager. A drive through the desert should not be a problem with the 544 hp off-roader, which has 6×6 drive, off-road reduction, five differential locks, portal axles, tire pressure control system and special chassis.
Source: Daimler AG
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The Hummer, the civilian version of the Humvee military vehicle, was particularly popular with gang rappers and machos like Arnold Schwarzenegger from 1992 onwards.
Source: picture alliance / Robert Schles
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Production was stopped in 2006. Nevertheless, you often see the Hummer as a stretch limousine or as a tuned armored sports car. This copy comes from Geigercars.… Thanks to a supercharged engine tuned to 598 hp, the three-ton Hummer H2 can reach speeds of up to 225 km / h.
Source: picture-alliance / gms
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When Porsche first launched an SUV on the market in 2002, it was a sensation. The sports car manufacturer changed its strategy and entered the SUV business.
Source: picture-alliance / dpa
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In addition to the Cayenne, there is now a smaller SUV, the Macan. At the trade fair in Tokyo, Porsche presented the Baby Cayenne as a GTS. It has 360 hp and up to 500 Nm; dam…ith it, the V6 accelerates the off-road vehicle from 0 to 100 in 5.2 seconds and with the Sport Chrono Package in 5.0 seconds.
Source: picture alliance / dpa-tmn
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The new Bentayga, Bentley’s first SUV, aims to be a mixture of luxury sedan and sports car. The series version was presented at the IAA 2015.
Source: REUTERS
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The Bentayga is the fastest and most exclusive SUV in the world. The luxury SUV manages 300 km / h.
Source: Bentley
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Tesla has presented a city SUV with electric drive. The Model X is visually striking with its “falcon wing” rear doors, but they are not suitable for every parking space.
Source: dpa
The electronics of the VW SUV, on the other hand, are almost at premium level. As standard, there is a radar sensor under the VW emblem in the radiator grille, and the sensor is also connected to the city emergency braking function as standard. What is new is that the VW radar can now also distinguish pedestrians from other obstacles and brake for them.
The multi-collision brake is also on board, it brings the car to a standstill after an accident if the driver can no longer do so, and there is also the lane departure warning. And for an additional charge, there is an assistant for practically every problem that you have not yet known.
This electronics offensive is also a symptom that the 2016 Tiguan will not roll up the market from behind as it once did – VW’s SUV is now an established bestseller that has to defend its position.
There are even more SUVs from VW
It does this through its enormous technical upgrade, its restrained design and with the help of the optical and actual growth (from 4.43 to 4.49 meters), which brings it closer to the large VW Touareg. The Tiguan thus also creates space for further VW innovations: Golf-sized SUVs based on Polo are expected within the next two years.
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