Tiguan boot space

[Sharkie]

Thanks for clearing that up sharkie. Did you have to slide the rear passenger seats up for the clubs to fit?

No did not slide anything to fit. Just dropped it in as shown.

[Tedhaggie]

FWIW,
I carried 3adults and 2 (4 & 2) small children , ( 1 in a full child seat , 1 in a booster0 . all luggage with clothing to dress up for a wedding) incl w'end supply of nappies etc. 900k each way

2/3 seat almost fully forward , 1/3 fully back, some small odds & ends in tyre tray, some in under front LH seat and infront off 2/3 seat..

cover out.

because of all the scuttlebutt ,I was surprised but took a bit of organising but all comfortable

[avalasia]

I'm guessing due to the smaller boot than other competitors some creativity is required when loading up the Tiguan.

Every now and then a seat may need to be dropped to make room but at the end of the day i still think the Tig is the best in its class

[blutopless2]

FWIW,
I carried 3adults and 2 (4 & 2) small children , ( 1 in a full child seat , 1 in a booster0 . all luggage with clothing to dress up for a wedding) incl w'end supply of nappies etc. 900k each way

2/3 seat almost fully forward , 1/3 fully back, some small odds & ends in tyre tray, some in under front LH seat and infront off 2/3 seat..

cover out.

because of all the scuttlebutt ,I was surprised but took a bit of organising but all comfortable

out of curiosity here... did you take a pram with you?
if so what was the brand??

my wife wants a tig as her next car but our main drawback is that it cant fit the two prams we currently have in it. - not both together of course... but individually.
so we would have to purchase another pram just to use in the tig.

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.50 cal for rabbits..... must be some super sized mutated rabbits near you.

haha - yeh Simon, that's cheating. I used to have a beautiful 1912 Remington .22 pump action that belonged to my great grandfather (unfortunately it was stolen ). I could hit rabbit at 500m with it - without a scope (well almost ).

[Sanman]

FWIW,
I carried 3adults and 2 (4 & 2) small children , ( 1 in a full child seat , 1 in a booster0

I have had the same load. Because of the width of the child seats, they can only be put in the outer positions, leaving the adult with about 12 inches of hip space squeezed between them. cosy, but not unmanageable.
As the kids are boosted up and the front seat backs rake back slightly, then the seat backs are in range for the kids feet with the row fully back. So if you brought the rear seat forward, you'd be in line for some serious kicking.
I have those plastic storage containers, can fit 3 across the back (one turned upside down as they are keystone shaped) then a couple stacked on top.
Everything else stacked around, including umbrella stroller. Makes for quick packing.
The Tiguan is about 200mm shorter than most other compact SUVs and this 200mm comes out of the boot length. A Territory is 400mm longer, giving you an outstanding boot size and outstanding weight bulk and fuel consumption.

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A Territory is 400mm longer, giving you an outstanding boot size and outstanding weight bulk and fuel consumption.

[DieselTig]

I have an x-trail and yes it does have more boot space but with the new Tig now in my driveway,we have to rationalise what is packed in the boot when we go away with two tall boys at back. These were my wife's comments, "we must organise things a lot better with the tig when we go away". So, in other words I dont see any issue with the boot space, once you get behind the wheel for forget everything.

[Tedhaggie]

out of curiosity here... did you take a pram with you?
if so what was the brand??

no both are good walkers.

the older child used a base only booster which enable the child seat and the booster to fit on the 2/3 seat

[jimbomort]

Sure the Tig is smaller than most on boot space. But well we all bought it knowing that. WE originally discounted Rav4s because the back looked too small and then we bought a Tig whose rear area was even smaller

We figured we always carry too much crap and so a bit of forced rationalisation wouldn't be a bad thing, and hell the Tig was way more appealing than the other options.

Plus we also figured that for 95% of our driving, the Tig had all the room we needed, and for the other 5%, hell we could use a roof box, tow a trailer or leave the kids home with a can opener and baked beans. Mind you they are only 3 and 6 so result might be a bit..... Oh...hell...........we love 'em, guess its the roof box or the trailer.

WE recently did a camping trip - 2 adults, 2 kids, tents, tables, chairs, huge eski, clothes, tarp, sleeping mats, cooker, gas bottle yada yada yada and with careful packing, back seat forward and a roof box it all fitted in We even had some push bikes on a bike carrier and carried all that with the air con on half way and got 6.9 l/100klm from our tsi (petrol), including driving thru Brisbane. Gotta love the Tig.

From a family who always thought we needed a bigger car (and our last car was a sube outback), we didn't . Absolutely no regrets buying the Tig.