Yesterday, we brought you the first teaser sketches of the Volkswagen Tiguan Allspace, a longer seven-seater version of Wolfsburg’s C-segment SUV. Now, the first images of a Chinese-market version, badged as the Tiguan L, have surfaced on autonocion.com ahead of its slated world premiere at the 2017 Detroit Auto Show, giving us a good look at what the Allspace will look like.
As expected, the lengthened model looks almost identical to the standard car, save for longer rear doors – the wheelbase has been stretched some 110 mm – as well as a rear end that stretches further aft, with a reshaped C-pillar. Inside, the Chinese-market L doesn’t appear to have seven seats, the increase in length seemingly only serving to improve rear legroom and luggage space.
The second-generation Tiguan – which made its debut at Frankfurt 2015 – is already much larger than the original. The five-seater is 60 mm longer and 30 mm wider than the Typ 5N, with a 77 mm longer wheelbase. Boot space is up by 145 litres to make 615 litres, or 1,655 litres with the rear seats folded.
Although the European version of the XL-sized Tiguan will bear the Allspace moniker, US-market versions will simply be called the Tiguan, as the regular five-seater won’t be sold there. Speaking of which, the standard Tiguan is set to be introduced in Malaysia next year as a locally-assembled (CKD) model – it was recently spotted in the East Coast.
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Rear seating looks very comfortable!
VW? Bad RV!
Probabily you didn’t know that Toyota cars especially the Altis and Camry not selling well, go and check used car dealers, you’ll know what I mean. Honda and Mazda has overtaken Toyota, and for non luxury continental segment people are opting for VW. Sorry Sam, your era is gone , I guess good things eventually come to an end…
Only look super nice in drawings but when it actually comes out, looks 50% less striking or interesting…
This is a good looking SUV. Great German design which looks good, very solid, safe and powerful turbo engine. Good job.
174 actual photographs of the Tiguan L have already appeared on the Chinese site Autohome’s gallery pages on the 15th.
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