hi I’m Joe Weisenfelder with cars dot com I’ve always been a critic of Volkswagens early SUV the Toureg so when I heard they’re coming out the smaller model I figured would it be any better with the exception of the name tiguan or Tiguan neither of them is really very good it’s much better than it already have a problem with the Tuareg mainly was that it was to have it so now it has a butt that it 15 miles per gallon finney and 20 highway and that is for the most efficient one even though it’s really slow now this is an all-wheel-drive take one which is the least efficient and even if death 18 miles per gallon the city 24 on the highway and you can get even better mileage if you get front wheel drive a manual transmission it’s also plenty happy ability was about a foot shorter from bumper to bumper than the Tuareg in about five inches narrower but there’s not much penalty in the inside actually four cubic feet less a passenger volume is not that bad %uh there’s a lot of inch less leg room in the front seat but there’s actually a little bit more headroom on some other nice things in this one more modern include the actual navigational system now instead of buttons alongside the screen this is a touchscreen much better maps better labeling at all sizes interesting rocket feature when you’re using the snow levels you can just had this one but many consumers back gives you a wide view my team gimmicky but what it’s doing is it showing you all the traffic patterns because there’s real time traffic information for major metropolitan areas on this and you can see it’s all green here which is really weird traffic is not usually this good then it goes back to where was also for the backup camera which comes with the option when you put it in reverse aside from just seeing what’s behind you get lines to show you where your fenders will be and then when he turned the wheel its wings either way to show you where you will go there’s also a different up well you can push it gives you a pattern that helps a parallel parking Pattani we haven’t seen anything like that except for in cars that part themselves like the Lexus LS 460 so the back seat is also a roomie is actually a little bit more leg room and almost an inch more headroom in there too right also unlike the Tuareg you can adjust the seat forward or backward which is good help to share space between the passenger compartment and the cargo compartment the backrest is also adjustable
frankel he got a center armrest now there’s more to it than that to pull one strap and the whole thing goes down and that’s pretty much it this region cargo cover might seem a little clunky but actually much later easy to remove than that retractable kind now we found in cars with the second world back and forth the you get a gap I in the cargo floor and the solution volkswagen has here is this flap can even really pellets here of keep it smooth nothing falls and if you’re sliding some car going from the rare to slide right over you also get some extra storage space alongside the spare tire here so you can keep any valuables out of sight too well worth having now the tour and does have more cargo space as you might imagine one thing it doesn’t have is a front seat that also folds flat so even though you have a short a vehicle overall you gotta lotta room to work with here well overall the take one i think is a much better vehicle in the Tuareg a special for today’s times high gas prices at center of all I really gets up a little interior space and some towing capacity if you don’t need that there’s a much better way for additional information on this car or any other gotta cars dot com on our blog kicking tires
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