<p style=”text-align: left;”>Glos Guy. Has it got to be a Tiguan especially? The Ateca we are getting has full leather seats, heated in the front and the drivers is fully electric as well. And as you probably know the Ateca is very closely related to the Tiguan. Ours is only the FR Sport as well with auto for only 1099.The excellence lux has more standard kit as well.</p>
Hi John. I’m certainly not wedded to the Tiguan. I find them to be quite dull cars and, having had 4 of them over the years, I quite fancy a change! The reason that we keep getting them is because I compile a list of the features that I consider to be essential and preferable and then check all my shortlisted cars against them. If they haven’t got the features as standard, I then add the option prices to the AP to see how the prices compare.
The Tiguan Elegance has pretty much everything as standard except leather seats. Cars like the RAV4, CR-V and Tucson eliminate themselves as you cannot add options, so I can’t get the spec right. However, the other important area where the Tiguan scores is interior space, as it’s quite Tardis like. It certainly feels significantly more spacious than the XC40, Q3, X1 and Merc GLA. As my wife uses a wheelchair, that’s an important factor for us and anything with a smaller boot would be problematic for us. To be honest, I haven’t really consider the Ateca on the basis that Seat, like Skoda, is a budget brand in the VW stable and having had mostly premium cars like BMW’s over the years, even VW feels a step down! However, I will take the blinkers off and take a look (on paper at least, as that’s all we can do). The one car that seems to be stacking up quite well against the Tiguan is the new Kuga, but that would be a diesel which my wife is keen to move away from!
In all honesty, I can see us extending our current lease, at least initially. We specced our current Tiguan with leather and it’s the 190PS 4WD version, which you can no longer get on the scheme.