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Current Tiguan Coming Back as Tiguan Limited

Despite a new, bigger Tiguan coming to dealerships this summer, the current model isn’t ready to retire. The little Tiguan we’re all familiar with will return as the Tiguan Limited.

Hendrik Muth, VP of Product Marketing and Strategy at Volkswagen of America, confirmed the reports—first heard back in March—at the New York International Auto Show. He went on to say that the Tiguan Limited is currently planned for 2018 and 2019.

“This was the best March ever for the current Tiguan,” said Muth, explaining that demand for the little SUV is still strong. More than 10,000 Tiguans sold in the first quarter of 2017, which is an increase of 10% over last year.

At the lower end of spectrum, the Tiguan Limited will be a lot like the City Golf, with a base price designed to attract value-minded buyers.

“We will probably make a very low complexity offer on this,” said Muth. Despite that, though, the Tiguan Limited won’t just be a value product. Muth insists that prices for the Tiguan Limited will step up to the new Tiguan.

Although the Tiguan Limited is only planned until 2019, VW will still be interested in having an SUV that’s roughly the same size after that.

“We see the potential to continue having something below the current Tiguan,” said Muth, but would reveal no more. Whether that means that the new Euro spec Tiguan (which is 11 inches shorter than the American version) or the even smaller T-Roc, or something else entirely remains to be seen.

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