Hi Glos Guy, good to see you back. I recently test drove the new Tiquan R-Line, want the Elegance but they didn’t have one available. I did post a short review with some pictures. The boot floor is very deep and I could see many people having trouble getting anything out let alone a wheelchair. If you want a level floor it’ll cost you £215 and comes with a spare wheel which then takes up all that space. Really poor design if you ask me. I was amazed at how much kit the R-Line had lost and would certainly chose the Elegance every time. The 1.5TSi engine had more than enough pull in my opinion and the ride was very comfortable, but I should imagine you’ll be looking towards the 2.0TSi as I remember your 5 series beamer. But definitely petrol if you’re only doing limited mileage now. Good luck in your search.
Thanks Markymate. I’ve read your review and it was excellent. Thanks for posting it. If it wasn’t for the wheelchair, I’d actually like the deeper boot, but having to lift the wheelchair up and out could be a problem. The only option I would have considered adding to an Elegance would have been the Harmon Karden sound system, but I was put off as it’s almost £1k as you have to have the spare wheel as well, but it sounds as though we might need the spare wheel anyway to get a flat load floor. We are probably around 10k miles a year now. I like diesels for the torque, but my wife is keen that we move to petrol next time and I’m hoping it will be a lot quieter than our current diesel Tiguan, which is very noisy compared to the sublime BMW diesels.