Volkswagen Tayron Review & Prices

If you like the look of the Volkswagen Tiguan, but a five-seater SUV isn’t roomy enough for your family’s needs, then that Volkswagen Tayron could fit the bill. It’s a successor to the old VW Tiguan Allspace, which itself was a longer, more practical version of the previous-generation Tiguan, but now it gets its own name and a slightly different look.

As a family-sized seven-seater SUV it’s up against the likes of the Peugeot 5008, Nissan X-Trail, Land Rover Discovery Sport and our favourite, the Skoda Kodiaq.

Obviously having more seats than the Tiguan means that the Tayron is a physically larger car. It’s 230mm longer, with a squarer roof line, and it’s also around 10mm wider. The Tiguan’s full-width lightbars remain, marking the front and rear out, but the lights at either end are slightly different with a flatter profile.

Otherwise, it’s very similar to the Tiguan, with similar grilles and styling cues down the sides. Alloy wheels start at 17 inches and rise to 19 inches on the higher spec models.

It’s business as usual on the inside, too. The Tayron’s dashboard is virtually identical to the Tiguan’s - you’ll still see a large 12.9-inch touchscreen, upgradeable to 15.0-inches on higher trim levels, and paired to a 10.3-inch driver display.

One difference is that the Tayron has an additional trim strip just below the touchscreen, finished in a classy-looking wood veneer on some models.

The Tayron also retains the Tiguan’s multifunctional control knob in the centre console. This can be used to change things such as the media volume, driving mode and ambient lighting, though it’s not quite as useful as the separate climate controls you get on a Skoda Kodiaq.

Practicality is a strong point of the VW Tayron. There’s the draw of seven seats, which you can have on petrol or diesel models - though the plug-in hybrid is a five-seater only, unlike the Peugeot 5008 or Hyundai Santa Fe, which are all available as seven-seater hybrids.

The second row of seats splits in a useful 40:20:40 arrangement, allowing you to fold them flat with more flexibility than some alternatives. Five-seater models get up to 885 litres of boot space, which is just a little less than a Skoda Kodiaq, while seven-seater cars get a still-impressive 850 litres. With all seven seats in place, boot space is limited, though.

The VW Tayron is available with multiple petrol engines - the range starts with a 1.5-litre turbocharged four-cylinder. There’s also a 2.0-litre petrol in two states of tune, two versions of a 2.0-litre diesel, and two versions of a plug-in hybrid with impressive all-electric range. That’s a really wide engine range unmatched by the Peugeot 5008, Nissan X-Trail or even the mechanically-similar Skoda Kodiaq.

We’d expect the Tayron to be very similar to the Tiguan and indeed the similarly-sized Kodiaq when it comes to the driving experience, but we’ll find out for sure when we get behind the wheel.

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The Tayron range kicks off at just under £40,000, so the entry-level car will at least avoid paying the Expensive Car Supplement on years two to six of road tax - but the rest of the range will.

All models include LED headlights, and all but the diesel feature adjustable suspension. Triple-zone air conditioning, ambient lighting, adaptive cruise control, and a rear-view camera. Step up the range and you’ll upgrade to the larger 15.0-inch display, and a head-up display, Volkswagen’s smart adaptive LED headlights and semi-autonomous Travel Assist functions are also available.