VW Tayron takes strategic place – Gadget

The Volkswagen Tayron (pronounced “Tie-ron”) is a 5 or 7-seater sport utility car that has strategically wedges itself between the Touareg and the Tiguan – the automotive equal of being the center baby with distinctive posture.

Engineered and assembled with typical Teutonic precision in Wolfsburg, Germany, the Tayron inherits a few of its high-tech DNA from its elder sibling, the Touareg. Features like dazzling IQ. LIGHT HD matrix headlights and 10-chamber therapeutic massage seats have been expertly tailored for the Tayron.

Measuring a stately 4.79 metres in size, the Tayron wears its SUV badge proudly. It is just not shy about its curves both: sharply drawn traces run alongside its elongated silhouette, clearly drawn with a ruler and a way of function. Up entrance, LED headlights and an illuminated Volkswagen badge provide a lightweight signature so distinct, it virtually indicators autographs. At the rear, a full-length LED bar and one other illuminated brand.

Step inside, and the story continues. The seven-seat cabin has high-quality supplies, together with ArtVelours Eco microfibre – which sounds prefer it ought to include its personal sustainability award – and, relying on the trim stage, tasteful illuminated panels.

Volkswagen is launching the Tayron in three flavours: Base, Life, and R-Line. The 5-seater Base spinoff affords loads of tech wizardry together with Eco LED headlights, Park Assist, a Blind Spot Monitor with Rear Traffic Alert, Adaptive Cruise Control, and Lane Keeping Assist. And a 12.9-inch infotainment system ensures playlists sound as polished as alloys.

The Tayron Life takes issues up a notch, throwing in a three-zone computerized air conditioner, 9 airbags and 10-colour ambient lighting to match the temper, outfit, or planetary alignment. Digital devices, App-Connect Wireless for Android, LED headlights with computerized principal beam management, and sure – extra illuminated logos – all come as customary.

All variants embody an armada of driver help methods: adaptive cruise management (ACC), lane retaining and lane change methods, computerized emergency braking with pedestrian and bicycle owner monitoring, Park Assist Plus, a rear-view digicam, and a brand new Exit Warning System that politely, but firmly, tells one to not open the door if visitors is approaching. Very considerate.

The R-Line is the top-tier spinoff for many who desire their SUVs with a bit extra aptitude. The sports activities consolation seats are available luxurious Varenna leather-based, aluminium-look trim, and bumpers that say “I mean business”. Outside, it rides on 19-inch Coventry alloys and options LED Plus headlights with dynamic cornering gentle, 3D LED tail clusters and 30-colour ambient lighting. Because 29 colors merely wouldn’t do.

For those that benefit from the finer (and blacker) issues in life, the Black Style package deal unique to the R-Line provides high-gloss black trim, smooth 20-inch diamond-turned alloy wheels, and darkish chrome inside accents. Other packages embody a Leather Package (as luxurious because it sounds), a Navigation Infotainment package deal for many who like realizing precisely the place they’re always, and the IQ Package, which bundles Travel Assist and Matrix Headlights into one clever improve.

Optional gear consists of IQ. LIGHT HD matrix headlights with interactive options so intelligent, they may greet the neighbours. It is all rounded off with a panoramic sunroof, Harman Kardon sound system with a mighty 700W output, and ergoActive Plus seats with electrical adjustment, therapeutic massage, and air flow features.

The Tayron can be provided with the 1.4 TSI 110kW engine mated to a 7-speed DSG transmission. The engine develops most torque of 250 Nm obtainable between 1500 and 3500 rpm.

*Retail Prices (VAT and emissions tax included)

Tayron 1.4 TSI 110kW Base DSG begins at R811,800

Tayron 1.4 TSI 110kW Life DSG begins at R853,800

Tayron 1.4 TSI 110kW R-Line DSG begins at R899,900

The Volkswagen Tayron comes customary with a 3 yr/120 000 km guarantee, 5 yr / 90 000 km EasyDrive Service Plan together with a 12-year anti corrosion guarantee. The service interval is 15 000 km. 

* Sheryl Goldstuck is common supervisor of World Wide Worx and editor of GadgetWheels. Follow her on Bluesky on @crazycatbuzz.bsky.social.