Volkswagen?s aptitude when it comes to selling SUVs in the United States has been?how do we say this"?less than keen. It arrived late to the game, and its first self-developed SUV was overly ambitious, expensive, and cursed with an inelegant name: Touareg. Doubling down on the dumb name game, VW?s second ute, the compact Tiguan, was too small, too bland, and too expensive to contend with the rising wave of stylish, well-packaged entries such as the 2017 Honda CR-V, the Mazda CX-5, and the Ford Escape. But VW seems to have crossed over?bad pun intended?a hump, recently previewing a family of new crossovers that appear to be better sized, better equipped, and much better-looking, including the appealing second-generation 2017 Tiguan for Europe and other world markets, the recently unveiled three-row Atlas mid-size model, two attractive subcompact crossover concepts dubbed T-ROC and T-Cross, a full-size crossover concept called T-Prime, and now this new long-wheelbase 2018 Tiguan, which VW claims was developed specifically with the U.S. market in mind. READ MORE ??
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