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The three-vow version of the Volkswagen Tiguan will hit showrooms from Puebla, Mexico in 2017.
AutoGuide reports Volkswagen is investing $1 billion into its Puebla facility in preparation of the vehicle, with the funds going toward expansion and modernization, as well as tooling. The expansion will add 295,275 square feet to the facility.
Once ready, the plant can build as many as 500 Tiguans per day for markets in both Americas, Europe and China. Puebla currently assembles the new Golf, which uses VW’s MQB modular platform.
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I don’t think three-rows of seating is going to much change the low demand for this car
I don’t think that the third row will sell these as much as the space a third row means. One of the things in short supply in the current Tiguan is cargo space.
IF they can package the third row in such a way that there is a good amount of flat load space behind the rear (middle) seat, and IF Pueblo production means a lower price point, the new Tiguan might be okay.
These are smaller than the 3-row Outlander, and everybody says that one doesn’t have any room back there.
So this one REALLY isn’t gonna have any. Plus, it’s already a very aged car, not sure why you’d put the extra effort in on it now. It has been around since what, 07?
This is going to be an all-new vehicle based on MQB, and with a longer wheelbase, not a rehash of the existing Tig.
Ahh, I guess I didn’t read into it enough. And the photo threw me as well. Makes sense, but still I’d doubt such great demand for it, even with 3-rows.
But if it’s large enough to be a mid-size, then that’s what everyone always says VW needs on here. So I say more power to em.
I too did not read anything in this article saying it was “all new”
The word “new” appears in the linked AutoGuide article but was for some reason omitted from the TTAC write up. The new Tiguan has been shown to dealers, but images haven’t been made public yet, which is probably why the current Tiguan was used here.
I like it!
http://fotos.autozeitung.de/938×704/images/bildergalerie/2013/11/VW-Tiguan-Neuheit-007.jpg
Still looks like a tight fit for 3 rows though.
Haters gonna hate in 3, 2, 1…
I think it’s more a case of indifference as opposed to hate
Which is why you’ve already posted twice…
Three times… :P
The bitter taste of poor quality lingers long after…
VW needs about 5 to 10 years of above average quality to make up for the mid 90s to late 2000s garbage pawned off as Fahrvergnügen.
Three rows would be a squeeze in a Touareg; in a Tiguan the third row will be an unkind place to put a small dog.
Since the author seems to have omitted the word “new” from the article, it should be noted that the 3-row Tiguan referenced in the article will be an all-new vehicle, based on the MQB architecture, when it comes out in 2017.
Which no three-row buyer will probably consider because they’re keeping the same name as the outgoing compact crossover.
Brilliant move for VW, who can always snatch North American defeat from the jaws of victory.
I don’t see why the name would be an issue. It is much easier to introduce a new and improved version of an existing vehicle than it is to create awareness for a new model name. Look at the history of the Taurus, or VW’s schizophrenia over the Golf and Rabbit names.
That’s just it, though — it’s not really a new and improved version of an existing vehicle. It’s a new entrant in a segment they’ve never competed in before.
Any three-row crossover buyer who knows what a TIguan is today is going to say “oh, that’s the small one, isn’t it?”
And it suggests VW isn’t going to have anything in the current Tiguan segment, which is worrisome.
Uh-oh. That doesn’t sound good.
Even if based off MQB and as big as a Euro Passat, three rows seems like a stretch.
I find the new GTI and A3 a bit confining due to huge wide door sills and small front door openings, thus not the easiest to get in and out of. The current Tiguan is a tiny joke inside, advertised endlessly on Canadian TV for $24,990 as a replacement racehorse (I do not jest), which model is completely unavailable when you visit the dealer.
If I cared more, I could shoot an email complaint to the Advertising Standards Council. But, I’ll put that off until they advertise the new Tiguan as a genuine German-Engineered NBA-endorsed six-passenger luxury Autobahn vehicle. That’ll likely be week two after launch.
Meh, don’t think SUBURBAN or DODGE CARAVAN 3rd row with the Tiguan. Think Highlander, Santa Fe, etc. The third rows in those vehicles are like the proverbial jump seats in the old wagons like the Panters and B-bodys. If you are 10 years old and up, you’re not going to be comfortable in one.
You know the SUV which was of similar size, but had much better room? Better visibility, usable 3rd row etc.
Discovery II.
Within an inch of measurements of the current Highlander, except height, where the DII is a full 8″ taller.
2017? Sounds awfully ambitious for Volkswagen. It will likely be December 2017—if it’s not delayed for yet another 6 months.