The price and size were the two limiting factors on the current generation.
I could live with $2000-$3000 increase per trim. Your getting so much more than the previous gen.
I wonder if this will be nearly identical to the 2017 Q5 when they both hit the ground.
I agree with Johnny here that, though sales were decent, the Tiguan was often slammed for being too expensive and too small. While the update look incredible, and I quite like everything I'm reading, I disagree that a price increase would be warranted or acceptable. And I think tpl is bang on as to why - it has to have enough of a difference between itself and the Q5, else sales will simply leech from one to another.
Base price may rise, and I'm ok with that since I'm not a base-price kinda guy.
...but the GTE, loaded, cannot top $50,000 based on Q5 pricing - nobody would shell out that kind of $ for a VW when an Audi-equivalent is available.
Now, I do expect the GTE to be a lower-volume model, and so the pricing may be acceptably higher on that basis, but the Tiguan cannot jump in price from where it is. Minor bump, perhaps...but not a jump of $2-3k.
I expect Trendline to be around $28k to start, but Comfortline will have to be around $31,000, and Highline no more than $38,000 before those silly option packages. If the Tucson is the new Target, or even the Escape's pricing, I could see an 'every option checked' model being $41,000. At that price, however, I'm hanging my head in shame that someone would drop that kind of cash - just as I am for the Escape and Tucson.
As for the diesel, would ya'll be accepting a 150hp Tiguan (even if it does have 236lb-ft)? ...or, based on that towing capacity, do we think that potentially it'll get the 3.0L V6 hunka hunka dino-juice burnin' love? I see that as unlikely, but odder things have happened - we know the V6D fits in the Q5.
