Category: Small Family 
Price Range: £19,295 to £26,225
VW image; compact size; manageable running costs; car-like driveability; reasonably practical.
Dull styling; expensive for what it is.
Pleasant, smart and accomplished, but not terribly exciting.
Volkswagen's reputation for build quality and reliability took a downturn a few years back, but it seems to have turned the corner again. The Wolfsburg-built Tiguan looks, so far, solid, well screwed together and finished with good attention to detail.
The TDI diesel is well proven, and the newer TSI supercharged/turbocharged direct-injection petrol engine has undergone extensive durability testing and should be extremely robust, despite its small capacity.
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wrote on 31 01 2008