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Tiguan: VW’s lucky seven out to dominate
VW is planning to bring its seven-seater Tiguan to SA in 2018, writes Michael Taylor
Since the demise of the Touran in SA, Volkswagen has not had a seven-seater in the local market, unless you want to go up to the much larger Kombi. Internationally it has the Atlas, but as VW global brand boss Herbert Diess sets out to make the Tiguan the world’s best-selling SUV, a seven-seater version is set to arrive in SA in the second half of 2018 in the form of the Tiguan Allspace. Already VW’s third-biggest seller (behind the Golf and Polo), the polished, tech-savvy Tiguan now has a longer brother, with an extra 110mm stuffed surreptitiously inside the wheelbase and the option of a variation of the Touran’s versatile folding third-row system to bolt into the rear end. Oddly, the 4,701mm long Allspace is 215mm longer than the standard Tiguan, which means there is 105mm tacked on behind the rear wheels to accommodate the extra space. And there’s plenty of extra space, even with the third row as an option. That’s because VW’s research insisted the majority of buyers wanted the e...
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