According to Car&Driver, a third SUV model from Volkswagen will soon join Tiguan (pictured above) and Touareg in VW’s range for the US. The news comes as a confirmation of what Volkswagen North America main man Jonathan Browning said last April, when he admitted he would be ‘interested’ in producing a new mid-sized SUV to compete with the likes of Honda Pilot and Ford Explorer, adding that the model should have been a ‘7 seater’. The new car will be positioned between the aforementioned Tiguan and Touareg and produced at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where it will developed on the same platform that generated the American version of the Passat.

The engine range will be made of two units: a 3.6-litre V6 petrol and a 3.0-litre V6 diesel, while the price will be in the same area as Ford Explorer (on sale at 29,105 USD) and Honda Pilot (available at 29,280 USD). Volkswagen is planning to sell 800,000 units of this model by 2018. At the moment there is no official confirmation as for ‘if’ and ‘when’ the model will eventually be marketed in Europe as well, although Car&Driver gives credit to the rumor that a Skoda-badged version of the vehicle will become available at a later time.

via | Car&Driver

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Here is the first rendering of the Volkswagen Rocktan: a brand new crossover in the works that could be based on the Suzuki SX4. The Rocktan will be the first Volkswagen-Suzuki joint project where Volkswagen will take up where Fiat left off with the Sedici - twin to the current SX4.

The Rocktan will be a city SUV and will sit between the CrossPolo and the Tiguan in the Volkswagen range. The model should replace the CrossGolf, which was developed on the base of the Golf Plus, and should compete with Japanese rivals, the Toyota Urban Cruiser and the Nissan Juke. It will also most likely be a low-cost model, with a price somewhere below the 20,000-euro mark.

The Rocktan engine range will have the 1.4-litre TSI fuel engine, and most probably the 1.6 and 2.0 TDI units. Currently, no news is available as to when the Rocktan might be presented, especially as no official green light for production has yet been given. If that does occur, however, the vehicle will be produced at Hungarian facilities in Esztergom.

Source | AutoInternationaal

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