Tiguan Picture Thread

[apom]

Ok Tiggy fans... spotted this on my way home from NZ yesterday in the carpark at Auckland Airport. I genuine R Line Tiguan. Pitty we dont get these versions in Aus.

Apologies for the low res iphone pic

[Pullstarter]

All red, which obviously makes it go faster Yes i know it's elsewhere too but i'm being a filthy pic whore so leave me alone

[Tigga1]

All red, which obviously makes it go faster

did you just get a T, a whole set, or is it painted?

[mojo]

Hi all, here's our new Tig! Picked it up Friday afternoon. Haven't had much of a chance to play with it this weekend, but the couple of small drives I've had have been great. Very happy.

[jcubed]

Hi All,

I'm confused now

On this picture thread, there are great pictures of Tiguans posed on showroom floors, in drive-ways, covered in snow, in front of a beautiful mountain, next to a desert, etc, but all posed on compacted surfaces and in front of the backdrop, not IN it. Now I realise these cars are quick - so you have to park them somewhere and take a snap otherwise they're gone - but here's the conundrum:

What I know about softroading, was ignited by the Australian softroader public, and in the following way: The standard ground clearance of my 2001 Forester was a bit low - 190mm - and I was looking for a way to lift it slightly. I was clueless about this at the time and started typing all sorts of search combinations into Google, untill the Scorpion website popped up. There I saw that you actually can put spacers between suspension turrets and struts and lift your car. Wow, what a discovery! So I made my own - a few times already - and has not looked back since.

Now it seems that most of the Australian softroader enthusiasts whom these offroad accessory companies cater for must still be driving Subarus, because the contribution of images of Tiguans in an offroad environment are few and far between, with a small number of dedicated contributors.

Come on people, stretch your risk profile a bit and send some action/offroad pictures! Or was VW right when they said that they envisage that only 5% of buyers would take these cars offroad?

At the risk of being accused of cross-posting, a few of my favourites.

[mojo]

Come on people, stretch your risk profile a bit and send some action/offroad pictures! Or was VW right when they said that they envisage that only 5% of buyers would take these cars offroad?

We'll save the real offroading for our Landy, but the Tig will be venturing on to a few dirt roads in the not to distant future - I promise I'll take some pics if I remember the camera!

[jimbomort]

No VW was incorrect ... I'd suspect its around 1% .....

Mine will never see even a dirt road .... to me its a high performance AWD hatch with decent interior space ....

around 1% .....I dare say VW has done a bit more research, realistically none of us really know and we estimate based on our own particular beliefs and experiences

that its a high performance AWD hatch that will never see a dirt road for you, a family car for others, and a powerful light off road 4wd for others is testament to the Tigs versatility

for our interest and the Tig I hope that modifications are successfully pursued all directions

[NZTiguan]

Hi All,
Come on people, stretch your risk profile a bit and send some action/offroad pictures! Or was VW right when they said that they envisage that only 5% of buyers would take these cars offroad?

Not sure if I've put these on here before, if so I can't find them so apologies if it's a repost. From last winter at a place called Fraser's Dam at about 4000 ft above Alexandra. On the day the "road" (track is a realistic description) was bog at the bottom of the hill and solid ice in places on the way up with a hore frost that everything coated in ice (you can see it on the trees). It was about -10ºC all the way. Extensive use of off-road function both up and down the hill to really good effect BUT it would have been REALLY nice to have had some decent off-road rubber !!! cos it was touch and go in the boggy bits.

First pic is on the way up the hill:



Then this is at the dam:



Cheers

[team_v]

Great pictures Derek.
Makes me wish i could do a front end swap for the off-road front.
It just looks so much more practical and fits the lines more imho.

Would be awesome to take the tig up the west coast of the south island, those roads are fantastic to drive on.

[NZTiguan]

Great pictures Derek.

Would be awesome to take the tig up the west coast of the south island, those roads are fantastic to drive on.

Been there, done that !!! AND on some of the forestry tracks on the coast too. The off-road function on the Tig (particularly combined with the 28º nose, diesel auto) is actually really good, the limiting factors are ground clearance (which has never actually become an issue for me) and TYRES. I really should cough up for some 16" steel wheels with decent rubber but I don't do enough off-road to warrant it really (and I'm getting too old and grumpy to be bothered changing wheels all the time !!!).

Cheers