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First Drive: 2012 Volkswagen Tiguan

Building Momentum With A Mid-Life Refresh 2012 Volkswagen Tiguan – Click above for high-res image gallery At first blush, Munich seems like an awfully long way to travel for the chance to drive a mid-cycle refresh. But Volkswagen has good reason to ask us to schlep across the Atlantic to drive its updated-for-2012 Tiguan: Momentum. The compact crossover had a bit of a knock-kneed start out of the gates when it arrived in the Canada in Spring of 2008 as a 2009 model. While demand was spectacular at home in Europe, the VW failed to find early favour with North American ... Read More

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    Review: 2012 Volkswagen Tiguan
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