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Volkswagen Touran
By
Stephen Dobie
16 January 2008 18:58
Volkswagen’s facelifted Touran has barely been out a year, but CAR has already spied the replacement car testing in Germany. The new car is being rushed in because the current Touran - and the Mk5 Golf on which it's based - is expensive for VW to build. The Mk6 Golf and Mk2 Touran will solve that issue, with fewer variants and a design optimised to make production quicker and cheaper.
The Mk 6 Golf we spied last year bore a striking resemblance to the current Mk5, and judging by these pictures the Touran is following in the same vein. Both the new Golf and Touran are thought to be based on the current platform. While they'll each be updated for the new cars, the silhouettes will remain much the same.
The front of the new Touran should be more shapely though, with sharper Eos-style lights. We also expect the Touran to have a few hints of the Up concept in it, as a company official confirmed to CAR that the little family of concepts preview VW’s future design language. The Up has also enjoyed the best reception of any VW concept car in recent years, so they’d be daft to ignore such a response.
