Volkswagen will be expanding its crossover family in Europe by introducing the Taigo this summer. Based on South America’s Nivus, it will launch at the end of the year and will be put together at the Pamplona factory in Spain alongside the Polo hatchback and T-Cross small crossover, both of which share many components with the Nivus.
The South American Nivus has a dashboard
panel that’s almost identical to the Polo and hosts a 10-inch touchscreen
infotainment system in the middle that can be complemented by a 10.25-inch
digital instrument cluster. The multi-function steering wheel looks a bit
different, but the center console and door cards appear to have been lifted
from the Polo as well.
Driver assist systems include autonomous
emergency braking, electronic stability control, hill-start assist, adaptive
cruise control, reversing camera and fatigue detector. Volkswagen hasn’t
announced the Taigo’s engine lineup, but the Nivus is offered with a
turbocharged 1.0-liter TSI three-cylinder that produces 114 HP on petrol and
126 HP on ethanol and is coupled to a six-speed automatic transmission and
front-wheel drive, while all-wheel drive isn’t available even as an option.
