For all those of you who always wanted to get a taste of how the Touareg felt like, to all those who wanted an alternative to the soft roader CR-V, to all those who only learnt to play dirt off road, and to all those die hard SUV enthusiast this is the car that beckons, The Volkswagen Tiguan. Known as the smaller brother of Volkswagen Touareg, is the all new SUV from Volkswagen.

 

They aren’t delaying it with their Indian market strategy as the car is vary much slated to enter the market, soon after its launch. The car was showcased at the Los Angeles Auto Show, last November and now Volkswagen has released the pictures of the final production version of the car, which halso shall be showcased at the Frankfurt Motor Show.

Here’s some info on the car that I got from Auto Blog Green

First facts on Tiguan engines: Volkswagen will offer the SUV – and this for the first time worldwide – exclusively with turbocharged direct injection engines. This “high-performance turbocharging” significantly reduces fuel consumption and emissions, yet immensely increases dynamics and driving fun.

Overall there are three TSI and two TDI engines. Of these the completely new developments are the extremely quiet TDIs with common rail fuel injection. They achieve 103 kW / 140 hp and 125 kW / 170 hp and at 1,750 rpm already output 320 Nm or 350 Nm in four-wheel drive. Both TDIs already meet the limits of the Euro-5 standard first coming into effect in 2009.

Also getting to the point powerfully, economically and cleanly are the turbocharged direct injection gasoline engines in the performance levels 110 kW /150hp, 125kW /170hpand147 kW /200hp. New to the Volkswagen program are the 150 hp and 170 hp versions. A glance at the torque values makes one sense that the TSIs are very high torque. The 150-hp TSI already develops a self-assured 240 Nm (from 1,750 rpm). In the 170 hp and 200 hp performance range it is 280 Nm (from 1,800 rpm each).

You can visit the Tiguan microsite at www.tiguan-base.com and see for yourself the popularity of the car.

And here some more info on the engines VW is using on the Tiguan. Tiguan will be the first VW car to have a BlueTec diesel. Read this excerpt,

The big news about the Tiguan is that this is the first VW-branded vehicle to feature a BlueTec Diesel. BlueTec is the Mercedes-developed diesel emission control system using a combination of particulate filter, special catalyst and urea injection to clean up the exhaust. The main distinction of BlueTec is the ability to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions by 90 percent thanks to the urea. Over the next couple of years all the VW diesels are expected to adopt BlueTec to make them emissions compliant in all 50 states.

…The “Clean TDI” introduced in the Concept Tiguan is also one of the first components of the BLUETEC offensive initiated jointly by Audi, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen. The goal of this partnership is to establish the concept of BLUETEC as a uniform label for clean and low consumption cars and SUVs with diesel engines. BLUETEC denotes diesel drives that comply with even the strictest emissions regulations of the US market. The technologies used and individually developed by each manufacturer serve to reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx) in particular – the only exhaust components that lie above the rates of gasoline engines due to the conceptual design of diesel engines. The BLUETEC partnership was recently started in the course of the LA Auto Show.

Check out for this huge, muscular SUV from VW. Sure to hit the markets of the CR-V and the Vitaras in India.

I also happened to go through YouTube for some videos on this car. And here I present two of the interesting ones.

Video 1: Volkswagen Tiguan Concept.
Uploaded by: autoblogger on YouTube.

Video 2: Tiguan Teaser Video
Uploaded by: worldcarfans on YouTube

There are many other Tiguan videos, uploaded on YouTube check them out (Search for Volkswagen Tiguan).

Pictures of Volkswagen Tiguan Production Version

Pictures of Volkswagen Tiguan Concept, showcased at last November’s LA Auto Show.