Did you know that the first generation of the Volkswagen Tiguan was launched in the year 2007 and the first batch of it was produced in the company’s Wolfsburg facility? It has been in the carmaker’s portfolio for eleven years and only a few days ago, it breached the 5 million lifetime production mark. The five-millionth unit was produced in the same Wolfsburg factory.

The traction towards SUV grew on a worldwide scale and the Volkswagen Tiguan took advantage of it. In 2018, which was its first full year of production, Volkswagen rolled out 120,000 units. By 2015, more than 500,000 units of the Tiguan had been sold globally. The following year saw the introduction of the second-generation of the Tiguan, which became the first SUV to be underpinned by Volkswagen Group’s modular transverse matrix (MQB) platform.

In 2017, Volkswagen expanded the Tiguan’s line-up by introducing the Tiguan Allspace. It brought an additional 22 centimetres in length and crucially, a seven-seat layout. This version of the SUV bumped the worldwide sales figures beyond 700,000 in 2017. Over the course of last year, Volkswagen retailed nearly 800,000 units of the Tiguan range globally. Presently, the Tiguan and the Tiguan Allspace are produced in four Volkswagen facilities, one each in China, Germany, Mexico and Russia.

The Volkswagen Tiguan has been on sale in India since 2017. It is available in two trim levels – Comfortline and Highline. While the former carries a price tag of Rs 28.05 lakh, the latter is priced at Rs 31.44 lakh (ex-showroom India). In India, the Tiguan is available with just a single engine-transmission combination. The 2.0-litre turbo-diesel engine, which is good for 143PS/340Nm, comes mated to a 7-speed automatic (DSG) gearbox. The primary reason why the Tiguan is expensive than its real rivals in India is that it arrives via the CKD (completely knocked down) route and is assembled in Aurangabad.