The new VW Tiguan is here, and it’s very sensible indeed

Prepare to be not very surprised. This is the new VW Tiguan.

It looks as you'd expect, and its Golf-Passat-ish technical makeup is no shock either. And it'll sell by the shedload, of course.

The chiselled looks fit the new VW template perfectly. In the cabin, VW claims it's made quality strides over Tiguan’s eight-year-old predecessor – and that one was good enough to sell over 2.6 million copies in its lifetime.

VW says it’s roomier by a 'gigantic' margin. That applies especially to the boot, which matters for a family SUV. They will say it's to accommodate surfers and guitars, but we know it's to hold bulkier pushchairs. Whatever, it can hold more.

The rear seats slide back and forth so you can divvy up the passenger-to-baggage ratio to suit yourself.

A little further down the timeline is a seven-seat Tiguan too, sitting on a longer wheelbase. That one will be sold in the US where the old one was criticised for being too cramped.

At the front end, we have engines from 115bhp to a more-like-it 240bhp, the latter served up by a new twin-turbo diesel. A plug-in hybrid version called GTE will launch a little later, making 218bhp of combined petrol and electric power.

As is becoming standard for this sort of car, the new Tiguan's 4WD system now allows drivers to choose the calibration of the dynamics to suit the terrain.

Comparable versions have lost 50kg in weight, thanks to the strong but light MQB platform system. As with other MQB cars, it can be specced up with an array of active safety features to make sure that chiselled silhouette stays unblemished.

So Volkswagen's bandwagon of unsurprising accomplishment rolls inexorably on. Or, topgear.commers, have you spotted a chink in the Tiguan's armour? Comments, as usual, below.