The centrepiece of the completely overhauled cockpit is a brand new infotainment system, working via both a 12.9in or huge 15.0in touchscreen – the latter of which you might say is a mite intrusive in your sight view and barely at odds with Volkswagen’s humble acknowledgement of well-publicised public suggestions that it went too far with contact controls in its current vehicles. 

The climate-control contact bar is now completely hosted on the backside of this display screen, so that you gained’t have a head-on collision each time you attempt to regulate the air-con, and the controversial heating management sliders are actually backlit, so you will not need to drive dwelling sweating or shivering at nighttime. 

But perhaps essentially the most welcome introduction – or reintroduction – is the array of excellent old style buttons and switches on the spokes of the steering wheel. 

The previous Tiguan’s frustratingly unresponsive haptic panels for cruise-control adjustment and stereo quantity weren’t, it’s plain, a powerful success in buyer clinics, and the Tiguan is among the many early beneficiaries of a brand-wide return to analogue controls for such features. 

A brand new rotary management with its personal miniature display screen can be utilized to manage the driving profile, radio quantity and the cabin background lighting colors too.

And now there’s ChatGPT. This addition is all about Volkswagen trying to get us off Apple CarPlay and Android Auto and dialled into its methods. 

It’s all about huge knowledge. But on this occasion, it means ChatGPT works a bit like Apple’s Siri. Ask it a query and it’ll provide you with a solution.

I requested Ida (Volkswagen’s voice assistant; the Germans insist it’s pronounced Ay-da slightly than I-da, however she solutions to each) what the oldest automobile publication on this planet is, and she or he replied with Autocar. Good stuff. 

I requested her who made higher vehicles, Volkswagen or Mercedes, and she or he replied that each producers had stable reputations. Not so good. 

Volkswagen’s ChatGPT knowledgeable saved asking me to ask her easy methods to make a chocolate cake. Her reply was, so far as I might inform, legit. But asking ChatGPT through Volkswagen whereas I’m driving for cooking directions looks like the worst, most ill-conceived and stupidest manner of receiving cooking directions.