Details of the T-Roc have been teased in a Twitter video
Details of the T-Roc have been teased in a Twitter video
Volkswagen has released another sketch and a short video showcasing design details of its T-Roc, a future rival to the Nissan Qashqai that's due to be revealed on August 23.
The latest images show the chunky dimensions and unconventional design that have been incorporated into early sketches from a slightly wider angle and in profile, but recent spy pictures of a pre-production car show that much of this look will be toned down for the final model.
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The video, which Volkswagen posted on Twitter, contains brief glimpses of several T-Roc features, including the front and rear lights, wheels and wing mirrors.
Ready to see the unusual! #VW presents the design highlights of the new T-Roc. #VWTRoc pic.twitter.com/u0SJXX5jmQ
— Volkswagen News (@vwpress_en) August 15, 2017
These 'in-the-metal' sightings confirmed that the car's styling takes clear inspiration from the Tiguan, albeit on a smaller, lower-riding body. The T-Roc also draws heavily from the next Polo, which was recently spotted.
These 'in-the-metal' sightings confirmed that the car's styling takes clear inspiration from the Tiguan, albeit on a smaller, lower-riding body. The T-Roc also draws heavily from the next Polo, which was recently spotted.
Given the T-Roc’s size, it’s likely to share engines with the Polo and the Golf.
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Diesel options will be 1.6-litre and 2.0-litre units, and four-wheel drive will be available as either an option or standard on higher-powered models. Six-speed manual and seven-speed DSG automatic gearboxes are expected, with the latter an optional extra.
A mild hybrid powertrain, which will be used soon in the Golf, may be carried across.
A plug-in hybrid T-Roc GTE and a fully electric e-T-Roc are also in the pipeline. Both variants will share powertrains with their Golf counterparts.
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The T-Roc’s dimensions should be largely unchanged from the 2014 concept, which was 4178mm in length, 1831mm wide and 1501mm high; considerably lower and shorter than the Tiguan.
The car is expected to cost from around £19,000 and will go on sale in autumn after making its debut in July. Despite other names being previously floated, the T-Roc name is tipped to reach production.
It is aimed squarely at buyers who are less swayed by Volkswagen's traditional, practical approach but is in keeping with the manufacturer's more emotional ethos, where design and personality play a more forthright role in the brand's strategy.
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nivison
Great...
Pierre
Great!
And something's wrong with that?
The Apprentice
nivison wrote:
4.1m long so same as a Skoda Yeti, but less interesting.
Bazzer
Boring
MrJ
Looks like an elderly Honda,
Looks like an elderly Honda, or Kia, or Ford, or... or... Actually makes a Golf look interesting. A shame too, about the neat-looking concept, as in why bother?
Mikey C
I don't think the VW group
MaxTorque
Mikey C wrote:
While I think VW cars currently can do with more design flair, to say the Ju(o)ke's styling actually possesses aesthetic merit is unfathomable. That car (together with the Prius) is the most downright hideous and tragically fugly cart on four wheels currently in production (and what a blight on our roads) and is a salutary lesson in how not to let hotch potch, hare-brained 'ideas' get anywhere near a drawing board. The Joke's ninjamobile design is certainly unlike any other car on the road, I'll give you that, but its 'originality' has just about as much value as the originality in, say, walking down the street dressed in clothes smeared in excrement - i.e., crass and repugnant. Uniqueness is certainly not a guarantor of quality.
MrJ
Agree with you that the Juke
Agree with you that the Juke is hideous.
But... it's a stand-out original, which earns points for being different.
Unlike the T-Roc, of which the pix show the flair of the concept has been totally lost.
Bob Cholmondeley
Another overweight fat car
Shrub
Oh dear
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