Volkswagen Tiguan test drive since 2008 SUV

Do not be a vegetable

Some believe that the car must certainly give rise to strong feelings, charge the owner with exciting emotions. It doesn’t matter what the result is achieved by it, whether it is dashing appearance or a dental suspension, coupled with a salon left in the garage. In the case of evaluative characteristics, such a position can be attributed to extremes.
 
Indeed, on the other side of the scales, hordes of gray (silver), dull and correct cars are always found. They also charge their owners with a certain energy. And judging by the fact that such masters are still the majority, it must be assumed that they experience their emotions far from disgusting.
I always attributed myself to the first subgroup. I love cars! But it is impossible to love the gray Japanese C-class sedan. Accordingly, the choice always stopped on the upstarts.
Emotions, emotions ... You can get tired of them. After the next weekly metropolitan day, when in the evening the streets are firmly trampled in traffic jams and, as they say, not to the races, you come to the idea that the silver remote on the machine is the best pill in this case from stress. You get behind the wheel, turn yourself into a vegetable in the garden in the movement of the automatic transmission by the movement of the automatic transmission and you feel sick towards the house, filling the kilometers of the useless radio-vulture into the brain. For these purposes, silver Tiguan will fit well. But here he is without a machine gun!
Therefore, it will not work out to be especially vegetable. In addition, I constantly want to check whether the car with a 1.4-liter motor (albeit fully armed) can so vigorously move the body in space! True, an annoying definition of 1.4 liters is nothing more than a stereotype. People are not even used to that such a motor (even with a turbine and a compressor) has the right to be under the hood of rather big, to put it mildly, Skoda Superb or VW Tiguan! But if you evaluate its characteristics, it turns out that the engine is exceeds the usual two -liter atmospheres, which in turn, under the hoods of the listed cars, are as appropriate as Lenin in the Mausoleum.
Actually, since it came to the beginning about vegetables, then where does Tiguan? Moreover, many will vote for him with a ruble, and they will clearly not be people from the first paragraph.
In each test of cars from VW, almost all journalists, like a spell, prescribe about the following set of words and their combinations: perfectly, cool assembly, verified ergonomics, proper handling, toxic backlight, and the seats are good, the turn is turned, as for rails, for the rails crossovers - passenger control, excellent brakes. Well, and so on, about DSG, FSI, GTI and others like them.
The written can easily be applied to Tiguan, it is no less than Volkswagen than other modern representatives of the brand. And therefore, a powerful Flashback begins in the cabin. Nothing is able to stop him. In general, you are sitting as if in a golf and a reduced Tuareg at the same time.
Inside Tiguan, at first it becomes unbearably boring. And even a strict raver lighting of devices and six funny round ventilation systems are not able to give fun to the interior. It was as if the soulless robots were done at first clearly designed, and then they were filigree.
However, pretty soon boredom is replaced by incomprehensible from where the feeling of not quite clear nature, but, nevertheless, is quite pleasant. Later I figured it out, it was not difficult, because the feeling constantly grew in me, drowning out everything else.
This is satisfaction. This is an all -consuming feeling of correctness: a car (and it is certainly very correct), a choice (in case of purchase), himself (for a choice). Well, and so on. When there is nothing to complain about, it remains only to savor. So imagine that I naturally savored this simple 1.4-liter Tiguan.
But in some way this machine should still differ from relatives? Is different. Smoothness. And it seems to me that this is a considerable merit of the wheels. In the version of Track & Field, they are smaller in the landing diameter, more profile and an off -road tread. Moreover, such shoes almost do not harm controllability. Well, perhaps, due to the diets of tall and sufficiently soft tires, the steering wheel in the nearoral zone is empty, and the feedback suffers a little. Otherwise, as mentioned above, this crossover really travels almost like a passenger car. Which? For example, VW Golf.
Track & Field is not only universal wheels, but also the front bumper cut in the lower part. It increases the angle of entry significantly. And such a version has a promising Off Road button at the beginning of the central tunnel pressed and dulled reactions, and also the car, independently slowing the wheels, can move from the mountain. Or a ramp to the joy of a fearful mistress. Have you wanted locks? Yes, more? Stick and rely on electronics. She herself will give the order to the chaldex in the drive of the rear wheels. By the way, the coupling works quickly, but with such frank passenger passages the suspension on more than conquering the curbs, Tiguana should not be counted. If he was at least three times, lane and field.
Go to the city jungle! Landing is high class. Review, thanks to strict design, is excellent. On the borders jump-skok. Good, ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Loyal tires on hatches and traumatic paths of slap spoon.
Whoever says anything, but I had enough 1.4-liter motor in the city and on the highway. Know the compressor blows at low speeds, and the engine is confidently (but without fanaticism) is gaining momentum, and when the turbine comes into business, a tangible acceleration follows, the speed is easily gained. The work of all the others, with your permission, components and assemblies was spoke in the seventh paragraph. Holestko, capacious are almost folk sayings about Volkswagen.
After the Tiguan test, I did not stop love fast, beautiful, extraordinary cars. But he discovered the secret of understanding such silver and correct vehicles. I realized how to get along with them. Well, thank you for Tiguan for not allowing you to become a full -fledged vegetable. And don't be.
Nikolai Ilyin
 
 
 

 

Source: Motor magazine [December 2008]