MY17/MQB Platform Tiguan Discussion Thread

[Dingah]

Terrific - an opportunity to be hacked or rear ended playing with internal displays.....
Not keen on the colour scheme of these trials vehicles!

Dingah

[PerthMTB]

Terrific - an opportunity to be hacked or rear ended playing with internal displays.....

Ha! I'm sure they'll block you surfing the net as you're driving, just like currently you can't play movies. But, the value in linking the car to the internet is things that go on in the background that don't need input from you - like real time traffic/accident updates for your SatNav, or guiding you to the servo with the cheapest fuel today, breakdown assistance arriving with a spare part because they already know what the problem is, or starting the aircon from your smartphone five minutes before you get to the car on a hot day.

Personally, I think the hacking angle has been overhyped by a few security firms wanting to get business from the car manufacturers - remember the non-event of the Millenium Bug? Not saying hacking won't happen, but like anything else there will be a constant tech-war between the hackers and security programmers and the problem will be minimised for us regular car users. If there's demand for a service, a way will be found to make it secure. I was working for a bank in the 90's and was told Internet banking would never happen because of the security concerns, but look at it now, I haven't set foot in a bank in eight years and I don't even know where my nearest branch is - maybe my internet linked car can tell me Ha ha!

[Dingah]

I hear you and like most of us it is likely your 'wealth' exists only in the form of digital software on a Bank's server...........somewhere......noting that certain of our economic 'buddies' out there are quite capable of crippling that system along with power grids et al in less than 5 minutes should they wish.
Convenience and improved access can be very seductive as long as those being seduced understand the potential outcomes.....eg vehicle proximity keys and real hacking and theft.
How many know how much data Google has on them right now along with Facebook et al? ......a professional hacker and INTEL dream resources.
I gave up believing in unicorns, fairies and rainbows some years ago......but reality can be bland and tedious without the colour of optimism.

Dingah

[PerthMTB]

Not wanting to feed the doomsday scenarios about internet connected cars, but more worrying to me than the prospect of someone hacking into your car system to steal the car, is them using a good old fashioned brick to break a window and just stealing the head unit.

Afterall, it'll be worth more to the right (wrong!?!) people than the car itself. It'll be the equivalent of stealing your mobile phone, work computer, and home computer combined, as the car will have all your personal details, internet passwords, online banking details, address, telephone numbers etc in it's memory - and its parked outside in your drive all night. Identity theft made easy!

[Hillbilly]

Not wanting to feed the doomsday scenarios about internet connected cars, but more worrying to me than the prospect of someone hacking into your car system to steal the car, is them using a good old fashioned brick to break a window and just stealing the head unit.

Afterall, it'll be worth more to the right (wrong!?!) people than the car itself. It'll be the equivalent of stealing your mobile phone, work computer, and home computer combined, as the car will have all your personal details, internet passwords, online banking details, address, telephone numbers etc in it's memory - and its parked outside in your drive all night. Identity theft made easy!

Only if you put them in there of course.

Why would you do your banking etc in your car.

Personally I prefer to keep my business to myself

I dont use any of the social media outlets and so no one knows anything like that.

I think a car is a thing to drive from place to place and the less connectivity to any outside influence the better.

If you cant spend an hour or so without being connected to everyone there is something wrong.

Driving is a full time job, not something you do while talking on the phone, playing with the entertainment unit, reading paperwork (yes seen that) or eating breakfast.

Waits for flames

I only use one computer which has plenty of protection to do my personal busness

[Dingah]

No flames for common-sense surely?
People can make their own choice and then accept the responsibility for their own actions.
The simplest faux pas is still the one of marking your home address on the SATNAV in your car and leaving a remote for the garage door at that address in the same car - what a gift for a thief with half a brain.
Other than living on a desert island somewhere remote there is no way of protecting against every threat - I just hope my insurances cover everything.

Dingah

[Hillbilly]

No flames for common-sense surely?
People can make their own choice and then accept the responsibility for their own actions.
The simplest faux pas is still the one of marking your home address on the SATNAV in your car and leaving a remote for the garage door at that address in the same car - what a gift for a thief with half a brain.
Other than living on a desert island somewhere remote there is no way of protecting against every threat - I just hope my insurances cover everything.

Dingah

Yep only have a nearby suburb in my Nav just so when I am in an unfamiliar place I can find my way to a main road home and then turn it off

[phaeton]

Next Tiguan with R Line body kit spotted in Canada during film shoot

New 2017 VW Tiguan Photographed Completely Undisguised!

[team_v]

Looks like a very chunky front end.
I assume this is the R-Line variant.

[tigger73]

Really looking forward to seeing this one in the flesh. Initial pics looks like it's a big step forwards in styling: