2018 VW Diesel Tiguan European Bone Church Road Trip Review: TFL Exclusive Early Review 

Yeah. To a grave.

+Aoyagi - yet everyone is fine with Chevy, Chrysler, and Ford's diesel pickups poring out massive clouds of black smoke.

Body-on-Fram Trucks have different (lower) emission requirements...

Jeff K if a diesel is made before 2007 it is exempt from emission testing and can roll as much coal as you want these modern diesel trucks and cars have so much emissions crap on them nothing comes out of the exhaust.

2.0 cdi 4 cylinders are average at the best and quite agricultural for such expensive cars , smaller 1.6 and 1.5 are not from Mercedes, Renault but very frugal and more refined but weak. 6 cylinder are epic, you cant know what you drive its just sounds like a smooth engine. V8 i drove only once and its pulls like a dog but its not really that frugal and its expensive to own.

Why? You have enough of air pollution even without these smog generators.

Diesels are always better than ole nasty gas burners!

In polluting, and thus causing cancer and respiratory diseases? Sure! :P

I feel that's all T total Bullshit with today's Diesel technology. Biodiesel even smells like french fries.

You can't just run old french fry fat from McDonald's with today's diesel tech, you have to run highly refined ULSD that is nauseating to breath.

MidNightRyder1000 welcome to the 21st century, bud. It's all about sporty design.

Try parts of Asia. You don't just smell it there. The air is so bad, your car is covered in soot every morning, your cloths always smell like smoke and your spit turns black when you walk down the street. You pretty much have to seal yourself up inside your home to get away from it. And what's more amazing, that's just the least of it.

Your problem is instead the massive use of fossil fuel. I wonder how much co2 the US let's out per capita compared to europe.

+pelleper Well, of course the U.S. will have more CO2 output per capita, but it also has much more economic output per capita than European does. And if we were to look at the ratio of CO2 output to economic output, the U.S. is probably cleaner.

US cities are much less condensed than in Europe. In China or many other Asian coutries air is much dirtier than in Europe and there are almost no diesel cars.

+sic22l What you said about Asia isn't true. There maybe fewer diesel cars than in Europe, but there are still many diesels. Also, Europe is much wealthier and more advanced than Asia is in general. It's air should be leagues better, but it isn't. When I last visited, every other car left that poisonous diesel stench behind. Maybe you've gotten used to it, but I haven't. Trust me, it is bad.

+Aoyagi Hey, that's what Roman said so why are you telling us to go away!

Plus VW is producing such good turbo 4 gas engines it makes you wonder why they need the diesels.

Europe is starting to push Gas Motors now .Explaining why Europe pushed Diesels motor is a long story but basically it easier to make and used less Oil . They sold the whole idea of CLEAN DIESEL basis on 100k per liter on the autobahn. Like i said it a ling story

Modern diesels (with DPF filters) produce much less particulates than direct-injected gasoline cars. More - gasoline particulates are smaller and therefore much more cancerogenic.

That is 100% correct. Diesels have lower emissions than gas cars. Especially those 70s 80s American cars

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Not in Europe. Japanese cars are by far the most expensive to own here.

Umm, where do you live? VW isn't famous for reliability nowadays. A toyota is the safest (and most boring) way to buy something economical.

***** In Europe Toyota has nothing but fame about reliability. Even dealers agree with that statement (for people who already bought the car and are coming back with issues). My dad has a Toyota and he had number of issues with it, most of them were fixed during the warranty but more importantly - dealer wasn't surprised with any of them. Rust, brakes, CD player, power windows, transmission bearings etc. Everything including the scheduled maintenance is about 50% more expensive than in VW. Toyota, Nissan, and Subaru Mitsubishi (not to mention Lexus) have very expensive maintenance (it's not just oil change but full service). Honda has pretty expensive repairs but regular service is fairly priced (unlike their cars). VW is not so bad in terms of prices, if you're servicing your car regularily you can count on serious discounts if something breaks down, you can easily fix them in most independent workshops who knows them really well - VW uses the same components in many cars (VW, Audi, Skoda, Seat). Not to mention VWs are simply better - they drive better, they're faster, more ecnomical, they have much better interiors etc.

Lexis is in the luxury segment, can't compare with that. Look at the MOT statistics, toyota is good, VW worse. VW is overpriced junk. Their component quality has gone down like hell. Everything from the quality on paint, bearings that fail prematurely (and VW is saying that 1 liter of motor oil per 1000km is ok = nothing wrong with it) and cam chains that brake on tsi/tfsi engines. Interior quality, driving experience, how fast they are etc has nothing to do with mechanical quality. VW buyers are like a sect. They still buy it when the quality goes down.

***** Paint quality got worse for every manufacturer because EU banned lead paints. Mazda is the worst in that matter, they deliberately use thinner layer of paint to save weight and money. Actually VWs are one of a few cars that won't rust in a few years. About the oil consumption - that's what every manufacturer says. Including Toyota. timing chain issue was well known, VW replaced them on warranty. They don't use timing chains and problems are gone. "Interior quality, driving experience, how fast they are" are signs of more advanced engineering and they just make cars better, more pleasurable to use. Quality of all cars goes down. Toyota included especially in Europe. Nissans are rubbish thanks to unreliable Renault components. Yet people are still buying them.

come to live in Europe, with our fuel prices you'll convert soon in a diesel addict, I wish fuel prices in here were the same as in the US

Ah! Price.... why is petrol so expensive in Europe? In some countries its the other way around...

Because of the petrodollar and currency exchange rates. But it's not much cheaper than petrol. They're both extremely expensive. Most of the price you pay at the pump, more than half, is made up of taxes. The big advantage of diesel is that you get great mileage. With my Peugeot 306 station wagon, I was regularly averaging 47 mpg. That was a relatively big car with a big engine. Now I have a tiny 800cc gas engine city car and I can barely get 40.

Diesel and Petrol cost about the same in Europe . Mostly the high price is Taxes . Diesel get a little better range per liter. But the Diesel motor cost around 1.000.00 to 2.000.00 more depending on size of the motor .So unless you do a lot driving , the Petrol motor is still cheaper and Most European do not do a lot long range driving . Oh and I do live in Europe . Live from Wien ---lol

In the US gasoline is cheaper than diesel because of lower taxes.

Audi's manufacturing processes probably have tighter tolerances in the dimensions of parts

ah I see, thank you for the insight

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They don't. They never tried to compete in the flashness category.

But the materials feel quite nice, especially on the euro models...

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For 50 Euros per night it's a clean, basic and affordable choice if you want to be close to the center of Prague. That would be a yes.

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