Purchase experience & initial impressions: Volkswagen Taigun 1.0 TSI AT

The knobs, plastics, dashboard, body build is not what their initial offerings were.

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Here are the pictures taken in the showroom. Volkswagen Noida. Superb experience. The Polo was bought from them too, so after all research and TDs I called up the GM. I was in Mumbai and he driving to Chandigarh. He offered me a deal ' I couldn't refuse' and everything happened from two different cities since then. A breeze of an experience. I am not putting the delivery ceremony pics since they kinda are overdone, but there I could not complain. Very personalized. Almost booked the Polo again too, till I got a nudge from the wife !!

Initial experience: The knobs, plastics, dashboard, body build is not what their initial offerings were. Even the rotation of the headlight control knob is so not VW as isn't the adjustable side view mirror knob or the window up/down buttons. Even, the folding key weighs half of what the Polo key does. So they have seriously scaled their own on quality to cut costs. But, still superior to all except the MG Astor about which I had written earlier in Nov during the test drive spree.

An observation, just sometime before dusk, whilst it's bright enough outside the instrument cluster being shaded is dark, so one has to strain to see the readouts barring the speedo and rpm needle (AT, Highline). NOW, unlike all cars, here, switching on your parking lights won't light up the instrument cluster. One has to switch on the headlights when they aren't actually needed for the cluster to be lit up. I thought I had missed something, so-called up the GM. He said that it's a design thing since he drives the same model. This is something that got my goat and I intend to write to VW about making a software tweak to remove this.

The 80 kmph chime! Pain. The dealership says they can't (?) do it, but if done as an outside fix, the warranty won't be affected. Advice please for NCR region.

The voice command in the car once paired with Apple Carplay, Google maps doesn't understand most of the places. And no, it's not an accent issue. Does anyone else face the same thing?

Drive wise. No NVH issues. Messed around with the D/S and manual modes, super thrilled. Big smile on my face and the wife. The daughter loves the looks and gizmos. I am happy.

Thanks, folks for the advice. Will keep this updated as and when something comes up.

PS: For enthusiasts, the GT badge for the Taigun is available for 1.5-2K and i saw a couple of customer cars who had it fixed. Looks nice, but I like things subtle.

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