2021 Volkswagen Tiguan R Line New Model And Performance.

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Verdict 8.0 / 10

A funny affair happened aback the second-generation Volkswagen Tiguan went on sale: it was a hit. Oh sure, the Tiguan (a nonsense blend of, we kid you not, “tiger” and “iguana”) is a bit amateur in the huge bunched crossover segment, but aback VW phased out the old archetypal in 2017 and alien the new archetypal in 2018, sales went from 47,000 units to 103,000. Like we said, a hit.

We didn’t allegation 700 afar of artery alive to accept why consumers accept bought over 100,000 Tiguans annually aback that 2018 archetypal year, but again Volkswagen arrive us to a winter drive of the new Golf R in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and offered a 2021 Tiguan for the journey. Here’s what we abstruse afterwards alive up and bottomward Interstate 75 for nine hours in a range-topping SEL Premium R-Line.

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The Tiguan is due for a brace in 2022, but we abandoned say that because it’s what the agenda dictates. The accepted exoteric is apple-pie and adorable but isn’t about as addled as the US-spec Passat, while the berth is a simple abode brimming abounding of high-quality abstracts and affable account (in adverse to the added big-ticket and accompanying cheaper Atlas).

The exterior’s crisp, beeline curve adverse with affable administration elements,