VW’s Tiago review: Well-equipped and well-priced in a crowded market

TAIGO. Feels like a footballer. However it’s not. It’s a automotive.

Yet one more crossover/SUV from Volkswagen.

Taigo. Feels like a footballer. However it’s not. It’s a automotive

The most cost effective model – referred to as Life – is all you want

We’re as much as seven fashions now: Touareg, Tiguan, Tiguan Allspace, T-Roc, T-Roc Cabriolet, T-Cross and Taigo. All starting with a T.

Add the pure-electric ID4 and ID5 and that’s NINE. Good grief. They’re multiplying sooner than the turbo-flu.

Little doubt we’ll be discussing No10 in per week or two.

Now, I’ll attempt to preserve this easy.

Taigo, like T-Cross, makes use of Polo elements. So it’s small, nippy, straightforward to park and personal.

However as a result of it’s a coupe crossover, it prices slightly greater than the T-Cross. And rather less than the larger T-Roc. It begins at £22k.

To be honest, the most cost effective model – referred to as Life – is all you want.

It comes with 8in screens, adaptive cruise management, wi-fi cellphone charging, reversing digicam, electrical folding and heated door mirrors, black roof rails and LED lights.

This take a look at automotive, the R-Line auto, has greater alloys, greater screens, particular person drive modes and a much bigger price ticket, at £28k.

You don’t want it.

You do want what all Taigos have: Cozy seats, a decent-sized boot (440 litres, in comparison with 351 litres in a Polo), pull-up handbrake and a separate management panel for the aircon. In contrast to a Golf.

As for engines, no surprises, actually. Taigo is petrol-only. The 1-litre three-cylinder turbo, doing 110hp, would be the hottest alternative.

However you can even have 150 horses with a 1.5-litre four-cylinder engine.

Once more, you don’t want it.

The 1-litre gallops alongside properly and the short steering makes it a breeze to string by way of tight streets or nation roads. And it betters 40mpg.

Experience consolation can also be first rate. The suspension does a great job of smoothing out our lumpy cheese-grater roads.

There may be one factor to notice, although.

As with most child SUVs, the Taigo is front-wheel-drive solely. So even in the event you suppose you’re carrying Hunter wellies, you’re actually in slippers.

The second you present it a subject of moist grass you’ll be going nowhere.

To sum up, then. The world doesn’t want one other small however tall crossover. It actually doesn’t.

However in the event you fancy a well-priced, well-equipped coupe crossover with full-width lights, try Taigo. For not a lot Silva.

(Apologies to Thiago Silva.)

If you happen to fancy a well-priced, well-equipped coupe crossover with full-width lights, try Taigo