Volkswagen T-Roc R 2020 long-term review

Опубликованно 01.10.2020 19:15

Why we’re running it: To see if VW can succeed where rivals have failed and give us a fast crossover that’s as good to drive as a hot hatch

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Life with a VW T-Roc R: Month 2

Seats-down abilities tested - 23 September 2020

A recent house move really stretched the T-Roc’s storage capacity to its limits. With the second row of seats collapsed, there’s 1237 litres of space to play with, and with some clever packing you can fit in a surprisingly large amount of stuff. It certainly came in useful for the compulsory tip runs that go hand in hand with these sorts of life events.

Mileage: 3763

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Hot crossover’s body control is tested on a patched-up B-road - 2 September 2020

There’s a short stretch of B-road on my daily commute that has become as useful to me as a commis chef’s favourite paring knife or a mechanic’s best torque wrench. I drive it twice per day, every day that I commute to work – which means I haven’t driven it much at all since early March. And because I’m missing it and I had a good reason, it was where I headed on my first proper go in the road test team’s new Volkswagen T-Roc R the other day.

Oxhey Hill, between the North Oxfordshire villages of Mollington and Cropredy, isn’t much to look at, but it’s narrow, a little bit snakey, undulating and bumpy. But it’s how it’s bumpy that matters most. It’s steadily degrading and being patched up at its margins, so it throws repeated asymmetrical inputs at a chassis over about a minute or so. Driven well under the national speed limit, it can tell you an awful lot – not just about how sophisticated a car’s close body control is but also how it’s achieved.

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