{"id":5297,"date":"2021-01-10T00:50:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5297"},"modified":"2021-01-10T18:28:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:28:55","slug":"spotted-in-the-wild-volkswagen-tiguan-tdi-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5297","title":{"rendered":"Spotted in the wild! Volkswagen Tiguan TDI in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/volkswagen\/\">Volkswagen<\/a> announced their new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/volkswagen\/tiguan\/\">Tiguan<\/a> compact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/crossover\/\">crossover<\/a> last year, American <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/volkswagen\/\">VW<\/a> fans got excited about the prospect of a TDI model joining the lineup. It would have been the first diesel-powered small SUV in the U.S. market, but alas it wasn&#x27;t meant to be, at least not yet. While VW officials say they have no immediate plans to offer a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/diesel\/\">diesel<\/a> in the U.S. Tiguan when the vehicle launches later this year, an observant driver has nonetheless spotted one in California. The Tiguan was parked at VW&#x27;s California design studio in Palo Alto and closer examination revealed that it was was oil-burner. It&#x27;s not at all unusual for manufacturers to be testing models only sold in foreign markets on our shores and the presence of this particular Tiguan doesn&#x27;t necessarily signify anything. Most likely, Volkswagen will be watching how sales of the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/volkswagen\/jetta\/\">Jetta<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/volkswagen\/touareg\/\">Touareg<\/a> TDI models do here &#8211; along with watching the price of diesel fuel &#8211; before making a go\/no-go call on the Tiguan TDI.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.tdiclub.com\/showthread.php?t=207960\">TDIclub<\/a>, thanks to Brian for the tip]<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2008\/03\/25\/spotted-in-the-wild-volkswagen-tiguan-tdi-in-california\/<\/p>\n<p>2008-03-25T11:18:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Volkswagen announced their new Tiguan compact crossover last year, American VW fans got excited about the prospect of a TDI model joining the lineup. It would have been the first diesel-powered small SUV in the U.S. market, but alas it wasn&#x27;t\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10104,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297\/revisions\/10104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}