We were given this as a loaner while our tiguan is getting repaired. It is the 23 plate but I can see that it is not the newest that got released just recently.
I think the car is priced nicely against the competition but we personally prefer our tiguan more.
Firstly the engine, we are given the plug in hybrid version. The power is adequate but the economy is shocking. We do a lot of mileage and we are averaging just above 30mpg (tiguan is 42-45 (2.0 diesel)). If you plug it in, you do get 30 miles of electric range. But because we are not used to electric cars yet, we do ignore plugging it in now and then.
As for features, It is jammed pack with everything you would possibly need but we have found the quality of the features as average and rather annoying. Things such as reversing sensors, the beeping is all over the place. Like when we are reversing, the beeping is incosistent with the distance remaining, it would have been better if there wasn’t any sensors in first place.
Secondly, the driving assistance features such as active lane keep assist: With the tiguan, the car would just remain in the middle of the lane for miles and miles. MG on other hand would start well but after few seconds, it keeps going side to side, almost over correcting once and then tries to recover by correcting to other direction, and this would just continue happening very fast so it feels you are rocking side to side a bit. Other thing which is overly annoying, are the beeps and warnings. The car always thinks our hands are not on the wheel when driving down a straight peice of road on the motorway. We have to constantly put little more pressure than normal on the steerting wheel. We are actively having to take steps to avoid it throwing warnings. Gets exhausting on a long drive. Then there is lane changing, usually i just give half a signal (where it flashes temporarily 3 times) while changing lanes. This has been fine on the tiguan. The MG, nope. A lot of times, it throws lane departure warning because I started fraction earlier or later during signaling.It just doesn’t give us pleasant experience when driving.
Thirdly, the heater controls and also adaptive cruise controls. Heater controls are all on the screen. The screen isnt exactly the fastest. You can physically feel the distraction while operating the screen controls. It responds after your brain thinks of tapping it again because it probably didn’t register. Then the cruise controls, they are around left side at the bottom. They take getting used to but they are annoying to operate at the beginning as they are not visible at all when you first start to drive.
Finally the size vs space. It seems bigger than our tiguan from the outside but definitely feels smaller from the inside. My mother is the one with disability, and she keeps making comments of how the space is lacking for her (in comparision to tiguan) on each seat she tries.
In summary, the car on paper looks the best but it was evident for us atleast, to not be conviced by it. It just doesn’t seem like a refined car. If I didn’t have the tiguan for comparision, i would find less issues with this car…
Our tiguan is coming to an end of our 5 year lease at the end of this year, sadly vw don’t have them anymore. We have placed an order for DS7 but are thinking that if DS7 build doesn’t go ahead before tiguan is back on the scheme, we are thinking of cancelling and queuing for the tiguan