{"id":5634,"date":"2021-01-10T00:51:48","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5634"},"modified":"2021-01-10T18:25:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:25:51","slug":"brits-to-sample-the-new-vw-tiguan-tdi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5634","title":{"rendered":"Brits to sample the new VW Tiguan TDI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/volkswagen\/\">Volkswagen<\/a> introduced their new compact crossover <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/volkswagen\/tiguan\/\">Tiguan<\/a> last fall and now UK mag AutoExpress has a first test of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/diesel\/\">diesel<\/a> version. The Tiguan is available with a choice of  2.0L  four cylinder engines for its European launch. A 148hp 1.4L twin charged (supercharged and turbocharged) TSI gas engine or a 138hp 2.0L TDI diesel can be selected by buyers. As usual for modern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/volkswagen\/tiguan\/\">Volkswagens, the Tiguan<\/a> is well equipped including a nav system and rear backup camera. It even has a parking assist system like the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/lexus\/ls+460\/\">Lexus LS<\/a>. The unit AutoExpress tried out was powered by the diesel engine which turns in a fairly respectable 32.6 mpg (U.S.), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/fuel+economy\/\">fuel economy<\/a> on a par with the likes of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/ford\/escape+hybrid\/\">Ford Escape Hybrid<\/a>. Unfortunately American buyers won&#x27;t have a chance to find out how good the Tiguan TDI is for a while. When the Tiguan launches in the U.S. in a few months, we&#x27;ll only have gas engines to choose from. Hopefully if the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/volkswagen\/jetta\/\">Jetta<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/volkswagen\/touareg\/\">Touareg<\/a> diesels prove to be a success in the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/volkswagen\/\">VW<\/a> will drop the diesel into the Tiguan here as well as overseas.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: AutoExpress]<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2008\/02\/11\/brits-to-sample-the-new-vw-tiguan-tdi\/<\/p>\n<p>2008-02-11T14:23:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volkswagen introduced their new compact crossover Tiguan last fall and now UK mag AutoExpress has a first test of the diesel version. The Tiguan is available with a choice of 2.0L four cylinder engines for its European launch. A 148hp 1.4L twin\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-5634","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\/5634","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=5634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9757,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5634\/revisions\/9757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}