The adaptive cruise works fine and its certainly not slow on the uptake, if anything I find the acceleration faster than it need to be.
No, what he means by slow uptake is this. Imagine sitting behind a guy at 60mph on an A road. The guy in front starts indicating and slowing down, and so does your cruise control. He pulls out of the lane, what should happen is that the cruise control immediately starts accelerating the second the road is clear.
It doesn’t. It continues to slow down for a while, then picks up. It’s not about the acceleration, it’s about the time it takes until it accelerates when someone in front of you slows down and then leaves the lane.
It’s a known problem with the VAG cruise control, not just in the Tiguan – our Ateca does it too, and so did the Golf GTE we test drove.
Prior: SEAT Ateca Xcellence Lux 1.5 TSI DSG MY19, VW Golf GTE PHEV DSG MY23
Current: Hyundai Ioniq 6 Ultimate
Next: we'll see what's available in 2028.