just as the up! city cars and truck appeared as a VW-badged idea very first before spawning the SEAT Mii as well as Skoda Citigo, the new Taigun idea might type the basis for SEAT as well as Skoda little SUVs. based on a stretched version of the up!’s new little cars and truck household platform, you can checked out full details on the Taigun here.
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“First we requirement to discover if this idea makes sense in the genuine world. If the reaction is positive we will realise it, as well as if we realise it it would make sense to synergise with other brands,” Dr Urich Hackenberg, VW’s head of product development, told us.
As the Taigun shares a lot of of its mechanicals – including its three-cylinder petrol engine, seats, electrical design as well as chassis – with the up!, which in turn is essentially similar mechanically to the Mii as well as Citigo, it would be a basic shift to spread the costs of this new little SUV over the three brands.
A production version of the Taigun is still a few years off, though. Hackenberg told us that if he pushed the eco-friendly button on the job today, it would take around two years before the public was able to get one.
But judging by the overwhelmingly positive reaction from showgoers in Sao Paulo, it can’t be long before VW bosses provide it the go-ahead.