The U.S. is changing its Tiguan with a model of one other compact VW SUV, the subsequent Tayron
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by Chris Chilton
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VW has already totally revealed the 2024 Tiguan for Europe, and now courtesy of China’s Ministry of Trade and Data Expertise, we’ve obtained a take a look at the long-wheelbase model, which you would possibly contemplate a successor to the Tiguan nonetheless on sale in American sellers, and often known as the Tiguan Allspace in Europe.
However don’t hassle on the lookout for the stretched (however nonetheless compact) SUV in American dealerships any time quickly. Like most automakers, VW gives Chinese language consumers a bewildering away of fashions that logic would recommend should eat into every others’ market share. And it’s the subsequent technology of a type of different same-sized SUVs, the Tayron, that may kind the premise for America’s subsequent Tiguan.
Final summer time, shortly after the reveal of the Euro Tiguan a U.S. VW rep confirmed to us that America’s subsequent Tiguan could be primarily based on a future Tayron arriving mid-decade. And across the identical time Autocar quoted a senior VW exec as saying that this new Tayron could be a worldwide product, which means it could additionally come to Europe, the place it could successfully exchange the continent’s LWB Tiguan, the Allspace.
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Confusingly, Autocar now says this new stretched Tiguan revealed in China’s MIIT filings, is Europe’s new Tayron, however will carry Tiguan L Professional badges. That contradicts what VW instructed the publication, so we’re going to stay with the unique story, which ought to imply one other SUV – obtainable in each upright Tayron and fastback Tayron X varieties – will likely be alongside quickly.
Anyway sufficient with the recap and conjecture, what will we learn about this new Tiguan L Professional? Visually it’s a lifeless ringer for the shorter European Tiguan, simply because the outgoing LWB automobile was distinguished from its SWB brother by little greater than an extended set of rear doorways and greater rear quarter window. Photos present each commonplace and sporty R grades, with the R getting an even bigger, blacker grille, a extra dynamic design of rear bumper and upgraded wheels.
The MIIT offers the wheelbase as 2,791 mm (109.9 inches), in contrast with 2,681 mm (105.6 inches) for the newly-introduced 2024 Euro automobile, and the 4,735 mm (186.4 inches) size is 184 mm (7.2 inches) better. Two energy outputs of 137 kW (181 hp / 184 PS) and 164 kW (217 hp / 220 PS) are listed, neither of which matches up with the engines obtainable within the SWB European mannequin, however they’re inevitably going to be four-cylinder VW Group powertrains mated to dual-clutch transmissions.
