The Volkswagen T-Roc isn’t essentially the most spacious crossover, and fairly clearly so by design.
It presents the next seating place than a traditional hatchback and has a boot sufficiently giant that you just’d be unlikely to search out one to match its measurement in a traditional five-door (though the four-wheel-drive specification diminished its carrying capability somewhat).
Still, though it could characteristic someplace on the record of likes, enhanced practicality isn’t prone to be the first motivator of anybody selecting this automobile instead of a Volkswagen Golf.
Up entrance, although, you’re actually surrounded by a better impression of house than you’d discover in a traditional hatchback, and also you get a great view of the highway in all instructions.
The driving place adjusts from gently perched as much as distinctly raised and bent-legged, however the controls are all as properly positioned and spaced as is typical for a totally thought-out VW product.
In the again, there’s respectable room for an average-sized grownup and simply sufficient for those who’re above common top assuming a barely splayed-kneed seating place.
Plenty of direct rivals are extra spacious. But VW deserves credit score for integrating the T-Roc’s panoramic sunroof with out impacting on occupant headroom.
The elective glass roof finishes simply forward of the scalps of these sitting within the again, leaving house for helpful recesses that may preserve the heads of even taller passengers from brushing the headlining.
Instead of aiming for significantly roomy, VW has gone for a ritzy, up to date atmosphere – and has produced it fairly properly.
Active Info Display digital devices, the T-Roc’s giant and flush-fronted 8.0in touchscreen infotainment system and its sparingly deployed strips of ambient lighting make it really feel superior and quietly ‘high-tech’.
The digital devices are Volkswagen’s second-generation system, which can be out there on the Polo. Wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto can be found as normal.
The system’s graphics are each resolute and clear, and the devices appeared crisp and usefully adaptable when following a plotted navigation route or listening to the audio system.
VW leaves the door ajar somewhat to those that may say these options are window dressing on a cabin that feels barely plain and bizarre in different respects, although. The fascia prime is tough and barely shiny, and in a market the place even a Nissan Micra will get a soft-touch slush moulding, that’s somewhat stunning.
Likewise, its inside door handles and below-the-knee mouldings all feel and look as if they may have had somewhat bit more cash spent on them.