We, my wife and I, have been Tiguan owners since Feb 2010. The Tiguan is a 103 TDI, with the 'old', although quite efficient, torque converter automatic, 6 speed, lock-up on 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th. The Tig' is essentially 'hers', and she doesn't hang around. In the four and a half years ownership just achieved, it has clocked-up 145,000 kms. She loves the Tig', named it 'Harry', after my father, whose estate paid for it. It's Blue, (Biscay), and as it frequently negotiates 20 kms of Kangaroos, often in the dark, sports a 'Roo Bar and LED Driving Lights, (the standard lights are quite inadequate on country roads, and the soft pedestrian friendly nose is prone to expensive repairs even if stationary when hit by a bounding 'Roo). The Tiguan is our return to the VW Brand, each of us having started our car ownership with VW (real) Beetles: - no water here. Mine was a '57 Model, small oval back window, hotted-up and rallied, and I later had an original Karman Ghia. Anyway, now it's Watercooled, all wheel drive, and even Diesel! - What a way to go.