Volkswagen first showed us the Taigun sub-compact SUV concept at the 2012 Paulo Motor Show with a 1.0-liter TSI turbocharged petrol engine, producing 110 and 175 Newton metre of torque.
Volkswagen first showed us the Taigun sub-compact SUV concept at the 2012 Paulo Motor Show with a 1.0-liter TSI turbocharged petrol engine, producing 110 and 175 Newton metre of torque. The car was expected to hit production this year, but according to a report, Volkswagen has scrapped the idea of a sub-compact SUV and will not make the Volkswagen Taigun into a production model.
The Volkswagen Taigun is not seeing production!!
Taigun may have received development funding in 2014, as this press document suggests: “At EUR 41.3 billion (roughly 64 percent), the Group will spend most of the total CAPEX in the Automotive Division on modernizing and extending the product range for all its brands. The main focus will be on expanding the SUV range – in particular in the A/A0 class – as well as on modernizing part of the light commercial vehicle portfolio.” but the reason given now are that the car is too short to make.
“The car, as we have shown so far, is too short,” a spokesman from Wolfsburg has told the Focus publication in Germany. Recently it was reported the model was sacked because of the financial instability in South American countries but now the reason is slightly different.
Taigun was a five seater SUV.
Volkswagen will instead launch a Polo-based SUV that will go on sale in 2018. It will reportedly be previewed as early as the upcoming Geneva Motor Show in early March. It is rumored to ride on a micro version of the MQB used by the Golf.
While internationally the demand for larger SUV’s is growing, Indian market demands completely different. Indians are just warming up to SUV’s and not necessarily, everyone can afford one. The sub-compact segment of SUV’s is doing great here and the demand will only go higher. Volkswagen has just unveiled the sub-4 metre sedan Ameo in India and needs to be seen if it generates the numbers desired which might be a pre-cursor to another compact SUV for the Indian market.
Interior of Volkswagen Taigun