Test run: Volkswagen Tayron 1.5 ehybrid
The new Volkswagen-Soven Tayron has borrowed design details from big brother Touareg-all for us to think about it rather than Tiguan. As the highly drawn butt with transverse light strip and the VW mark with red lighting. Just like on luxurious Touareg. In the front there is the same solution with white light.
However, new Tayron has very little to do with Touareg. This is a big Tiguan. You can also look at Tayron as a Volkswagen -clad Skoda Kodiaq. Czech and the German have exactly the same wheelbase, engines and gearboxes. Of course, they look different and one is being built in Wolfsburg and the other in Kvasy.
It’s hard to distinguish tayron from the Tiguan. Both move safely across the road with a smooth but not very engaging feeling of strength. Tayron, just like Tiguan, Kodiaq and Passat, is built on the MQB EVO platform and it is reflected in the generic performance that is well balanced for what the cars should be used for-everyday transport.
Comfort is relatively high. Like Tiguan, Tayron has a sound -absorbing acoustic boxes that make the sound level comfortable and shock absorption and suspension is what one would expect from the car type. For SEK 14,600 extra, or if you buy Tayron in more expensive designs, the adjustable DCC chassis includes.
If you drive on a curvy road and want to feel all the bumps in the road – pull the shock absorbers’ slider on the touch screen to Sport. If you are going to push home a newly baked cream cake – instead pull the slider to the left for the softest comfort setting.
Tayron is said to have A more lavish feeling interruption but the step between Tiguan and Tayron is considerably shorter than that between Tayron and Touareg. The point of Tayron is what is behind the front seats. The rear seat in the Tiguan is spacious, but in the 25 centimeter longer Tayron it is even more wasteful and the rear seat sofa can be shot longitudinally.
Behind the rear seat is a third seat with two seats. There you sit well as a child and the chairs are not needed, they are folded down to the floor. But there are some reservations. It is only with petrol and diesel engine Tayron can be ordered in seven-seater design and then it costs SEK 12,000 extra. In the standard version, Tayron is five -seater and then has a luggage space that is impressive – 885 to 2,090 liters. The charging hybrid does not really hold as much as the battery pack takes most of the extra space below the double loading floor.
The charging hybrid is available in two power versions: 204 and 272 horsepower. The stronger is not worth the additional cost as Tayron regardless of power will not be a sports car but it is good as a charging hybrid. The charging effect is 50 kilowatts at fast charging and the electric range is almost twelve miles. Only Kodiaq, who uses the same technology, can match that number.
Volkswagen is soon Alone to persevere with the dual clutch boxes which in their best moments change quickly but in their worst, the feeling of electric car that is otherwise prevailing. When parking, the box can end up in the aftermath and the car has time to roll a few half meters in the wrong direction.
Tayron 1.5 ehybrid has a theoretically very low consumption figure and in real driving it is not difficult to reach down to about 0.5 liters per mile when the battery is empty.
Volkswagen leaves purely gasoline and diesel variants in the engine palette and will certainly find homes with those who want four-wheel drive and high pull weight. You only get that in combination with the fossil engines.
The charging hybrid thus falls between the chairs. It cannot be equipped with seven seats and cannot be four -wheel drive – two things that had given Tayron a special position on the market.
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