Volkswagen has given us a first look at an all-new SUV entrant for Europe, the Tayron. This large family SUV will have five seats as standard, but can be optionally fitted with up to seven. The car will sit below the Touareg, VW’s luxury flagship, in the German automotive firm’s SUV line-up, but at around 4.8 metres in length, it’ll sit above the Tiguan. That’s why, in our minds, it should’ve been named the ‘Biguan’, but we’re sure Volkswagen knows what it's doing…
Precise details are still pretty sketchy at this point, but here’s what we know so far.
2025 Volkswagen Tayron: Price, specs and release date
- 2025 Volkswagen Tayron: styling and dimensions
- 2025 Volkswagen Tayron: interior design and practicality
- 2025 Volkswagen Tayron: engines, motors, batteries and dynamics
- 2025 Volkswagen Tayron: price and release date
2025 Volkswagen Tayron: styling and dimensions
Like we said, the new Volkswagen Tayron will be the second-largest SUV that VW offers in Europe. It’ll be built on the same MQB Evo platform that underpins the Tiguan, and the latest Passat Estate as well.
Our pictures show a bluff front end design with huge gaping air-intakes for an aggressive look, while down the sides, you’ll see squared off wheel arches and an elongated roofline towards the rear of the car, punctuated by a metallic strip that runs along the top of the side windows to the base of the back window. The rear end also features Volkswagen’s now-customary horizontal LED light bar - housing the illuminated VW logo - that connects the two rear light clusters.
2025 Volkswagen Tayron: interior design and practicality
We’ve seen no images of the Tayron’s interior yet, but given the car’s mechanical similarities to the Volkswagen Tiguan and Passat, we’d guess at more of the same in terms of design and quality. We know it gets the same 12.9-inch infotainment touchscreen system as its stablemates, which in those cars is baffling to use due to its complexity and confusing user-interface, made worse by the fact that almost all physical switchgear has been banished in pursuit of a minimalist design. On all of the above, we’ll have to wait and see with the Tayron, but we’d lay money on it being a similar story.
However, if the Tayron’s sister cars’ high quality is replicated, then it’ll have an interior worthy of a large SUV, with glossy materials and impressive build quality. We’re also told to expect some interesting options regarding interior materials with ArtVelour Eco (recycled microfibre) and authentic open-pore wood being available.
Given the VW Tayron’s size and choice of five- or seven-seat layouts, think of it as an indirect successor to the now-defunct VW Tiguan Allspace. This will make it a rival for both large five-seat SUVs such as the Toyota RAV4 and Vauxhall Grandland, and full-on seven-seat SUVs like the Hyundai Santa Fe, Kia Sorento, and Skoda Kodiaq. Volkswagen tells us to expect 885 litres of luggage space when the car is fitted with five seats. However, we don’t know if that applies to all models or just the non-electrified ones (more on that in a minute), and we don’t know the equivalent figure for the 7-seater yet, either.
2025 Volkswagen Tayron: engines, motors, batteries and dynamics
Presales have just opened for the Tayron over in Germany, and initially, just one powertrain is offered, a 1.5-litre 48-volt mild hybrid petrol, badged eTSI, with 148bhp. However, Volkswagen says that in the fullness of time, no fewer than seven powertrains will be offered to the German market, including two petrol, two diesel, and two plug-in hybrids. No electric-car version is planned.
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We don’t know much in the way of precise details. With the petrol, we’d guess that one of them will be the 201bhp 2.0-litre unit offered in the Passat, and with the diesels, we’d expect one of them to be the 148bhp 2.0-litre TDI unit offered in the Tiguan, and we know that the other will have 190bhp.
We know a bit more about the PHEVs, though, which are badged eHybrid. These combine the 1.5-litre eTSI petrol engine with an electric motor and a 19.7kWh (usable capacity) battery to deliver either 201bhp or 268bhp. VW promises an all-electric range of ‘more than 100km’, which equates to 62 miles. The battery can be recharged at up to 11kW on an AC connection, or up to 50kW on a DC hookup.
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It's currently unclear which - or how many - of these powertrains will be offered in the UK or other parts of the European market, but we do know that all Tayrons will have a DSG twin-clutch automatic gearbox, that some powertrains will be available with 4Motion all-wheel drive, and these versions will have a maximum towing weight of 2.5 tonnes.
2025 Volkswagen Tayron: price and release date
VW is yet to announce precisely when the Tayron will go on sale in the UK, or how much for, but we can say that the trim level structure will most likely include VW's now-familiar Life, Elegance and R-Line models.
In Germany, entry-level Life trim includes LED headlights with automatic main beam control, alloy wheels, three-zone climate control, 10-colour ambient lighting, the 12.9-inch infotainment screen with navigation, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, plus digital instruments.
The safety roster includes nine airbags, adaptive cruise control, lane change assist, lane keep assist, automatic emergency braking with pedestrian and cyclist detection, park assist, reversing camera, and dynamic road sign display.
Optional extras on the German market include Dynamic Chassis Control adaptive suspension, HD matrix headlights, upgraded infotainment with a voice assistant powered by Chat GPT, a tilting and sliding panoramic roof, a 700-watt Harman Kardon sound system, leather upholstery, and electric seat adjustment with massage function.