Volkswagen Tiguan test drive since 2008 SUV

Success of selection

What happens if you cross the tiger with Iguana? You will never guess: a German all -around! Maxim Sachkov delved into the design of selection. Photo by the author and Volkswagen.
What marketer will not come up with, trying to draw attention to the model. They compose whipping advertising slogans, inspire the buyer that the goods have virtues that competitors are deprived of. They are trying to intrigue with a wise name in an invented computer or assigned in honor of a little -known geographical point or a tribe forgotten by God and people. The main thing is to sound and remember! Volkswagen marketers found an unusual move united two animals. It turned out Tiguan.
HABITAT
Interestingly, the organizers did not please the presentation of the alternate in Budapest? After all, the capital of Hungary is also from two unlike halves of mountainous boots and a plain pest. Perhaps this is a coincidence, but successful.
I don’t know yet that I took Tiguan from animals, but the related features of Volkswagen are visible immediately. At first glance, a little Tuareg, and a high golf behind. Such a task was faced with the developers to combine decent all -terrain qualities with excellent behavior on the asphalt.
I sit behind the wheel of Tiguan and try to find miscalculations in ergonomics. True, in Volkswagen you are unlikely to come across obvious flaws. The devices are well read, the hands themselves find the right buttons and levers, large ranges of adjustments and a lot of air over the head will allow both Tiger and Iguan. But, having stuck in the seat, I understand something is missing. For example, good lateral support. Yes, and a rather long pillow is littered forward, which is why the knees hang in the air. By the way, this drawback is devoid of seats with electroregies in which the position of the front of the pillow can be configured separately.
It has long been a time when Volkswagen was folk, that is, as simple and cheap as possible. Look at expensive materials for the interior decoration. But what is it?! The inner handle of the door seems to be from another car made of hard, slippery, unpleasant to the touch of plastic. Hello from the past?
Experiments on the animal
Come on, we are on an all -around, he had a colleague, when Tiguan, when turning, rested the wheel at the curb. I was sure that this site was enough for a 4.5-meter car for a turn. But, in general, maneuver on Tiguan simply, thanks to a low glazing line, quickly deal with dimensions, and help to take it back from good mirrors. In extreme cases, a parking system with a rear view camera (option) will come to revenue.
Probably, the sellers of this all -terrain vehicle should not start a story with the volume of a gasoline engine of something good, the buyer will be disappointed. Better to go from power. So, under the hood 150 forces. It gives their motor with a volume of only 1.4 liters. Thanks to the two units of the boost of the compressor and the turbocharger (for more details see ZR, 2007, No. 8).
The engine is quickly and evenly accelerates the 1.5-ton car, cheerfully picks up from any revolutions: after all, at 1250 rpm, the gasoline TSI gives 200 h.m, and after another half a hundred revolutions it goes to the maximum torque. At the same time, fuel consumption is slightly greater than atmospheric 1.4-liter.
In the first gear at 1000 rpm, the newcomer rides steadily at a speed of 6.69 km/h. This was done, first of all, for off -road like a reduced gear, but also for traffic jams an excellent mode. It is not necessary to conveniently play the clutch once again. True, the short gear makes the second quickly to stick. You need to get used to the box: at first I got a couple of times instead of the fourth on the second. Yes, and the spring resisting random turning on the reverse stroke would not hurt to strengthen. There, one of the Tiguans, stopping at a traffic light, blinked with white lanterns and jerked back: it means that I am not so awkward.
For the younger all -terrain vehicle, Volkswagen has only boiled engines. This 150-horsepower will appear one of the first. Later, two more 1.4-liter TSI with a capacity of 170 and 200 hp will come out. In addition to a 6-speed mechanical box, a new six-speed machine can be ordered to them in a pair. The diesel engines of 140- and 170-horsepower TDI promise. These are the first four-cylinder Volkswagen engines with the Common Rail system instead of pumps.
On the diesel 140-horsepower Tiguan I managed to drive. A miracle did not happen a diesel engine noisier than a gasoline. And, unfortunately, it loses the TSI engine not only in this. The ride with him tense and twitching due to the narrowed working range has to switch more often. And where is the diesel thrust, if not tractor, so at least a walk -behind? I tried at low speed to switch to the second and shamefully stalled not helped even flirting with gas and clutch pedals. Yesterday, I voted for diesel with both hands, but now ... Will the appearance of a new generation of gasoline engines bring the advantages of a diesel engine to efficiency alone?
In the native elements
No matter how trite, the behavior of Tiguan on the road is easiest to characterize the word obedient. It does not start honed controllability, although in difficult situations he behaves predictably and clearly screwed into turns, and transparent steering allows, despite small rolls, to clearly set the corners of the rotation of the wheels. The newcomer is not very comfortable on uneven roads, which in the former country of social camps are found completely: hardly accepts small irregularities, repeats the profile of the road, and on the pits of the larger energy intensity of the suspension, the buffers of the end of the end of the peel. But we will not limit ourselves to asphalt jungle this animal should feel good on off -road.
Naturally, like many cars from the now popular class, Tiguan is not intended for impenetrable swamps. The design of the chassis will tell about this eloquently. Take at least a 4Motion all-wheel drive golf or passat, with an electro-hydraulic clutch of Haldex (though a new generation, with faster reactions) connecting the rear axle when slipping the front wheels. The element of Tiguan is a light off -road, like a site proposed by the organizers.
Here we rolled out a Tiguan with a different body that differs, first of all, with a steeper angle of entry 28. Having pressed the button on the central console, I turn on the all -terrain vehicle more precisely, I call for help electronics. The gas pedal becomes more stretched, so that it is easier to dose the traction, electronic locks of differentials wake up, ABS helps to slow down on gravel, and anti -leggings on slopes and lifting are connected. In principle, this track is passable and on a regular car with a good road clearance (by the way, Tiguan is 195 mm), only in some places would have to be sophisticated. Tiguan allows unmistakably (and, of course, with maximum comfort) to go through a complex site even to people whose driver’s experience is small. In essence, for this they created it.
Selection is increasingly becoming fashionable: they cross animals, plants, and took up cars. What can you do, modern man gravitates to universality, and scientists are trying to please in every way, growing unusual creatures. Tiguan is one of the rather successful examples of car selection. The name in this case confirms the content.
Tiguan closed another niche in the line of Volkswagen Truth, somewhat lagging behind competitors. But it is easier to catch up than to run away.
The constellation Tiguan
The youngest Volkswagen long before his on sale managed to pass the passive security exam according to the EURONCAP method. Tiguan earned the maximum five stars (34 points) for the safety of passengers, he was helped by a body with programmed deformation zones and a hard passenger cage, six inflatable pillows (as two more lateral for the second row offers), three -point belts on all seats (four with efforts) . The high four stars (39 points) from five Tiguan received a slurred indication of a disconnected passenger pillow and poorly distinguishable marking of isofix mounts for protection. The debutant reacted to pedestrians two stars (17 points) out of four more or less humane. A soft hood and a bumper with an energy -absorbing filler will be friendly to the onlook, but the rigid edge of the hood can cause serious injuries.
 
Maxim Sachkov
 
 
   
 
 
 
 

Source: The magazine "Driving"