Volkswagen · introduced 2007
Among the 315 Volkswagen entries in the MotorJury library, the Volkswagen Tiguan holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2007. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Volkswagen Tiguan properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Nissan Nissan GT-R, the Hyundai Hyundai i30, the Audi AG Audi R8 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Volkswagen Tiguan reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 1.4 L Turbocharger / TSI Straight-four engine / I4 / 1.8 L TSI I4 / 2.0 L TSI I4 / Diesel engine / Diesel: / 2.0 L Turbocharged Direct Injection / TDI I4; drive goes through 6-speed manual / 6-speed automatic / 6-speed DSG / 7-speed DSG; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout / Front-engine, front-wheel-drive / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive layout / Front-engine, all-wheel-drive (4motion). Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Volkswagen's own catalogue the Volkswagen Tiguan sits alongside the Volkswagen Apollo, the Volkswagen Routan, the Kübelwagen, the MPV Tehran. Design is credited to Klaus Bischoff, Marc Lichte and Andreas Mindt (initial design work) / Silva Arnaldo Cruzeiro (facelift). Assembly is recorded at Germany: Wolfsburg (Wolfsburg Volkswagen Plant); Osnabrück (2016–2018) / China: Anting (SAIC Volkswagen / SAIC-VW) / Russia: Kaluga (Volkswagen Group Rus) / Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh Ci.
For the years the United States federal record covers, EPA-rated economy comes in at 28 mpg combined, which works out near $3,450 a year in fuel at current prices.
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Specifications come from the Wikipedia infobox for this model (CC BY-SA) and the open Wikidata record, and are shown only where a source actually carries them — nothing here is estimated. Figures are manufacturer specifications, not measured results.
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