Touareg closely related to Porsche Cayenne, and proper 4wd.
And thus proper expensive to sort if it breaks - £4k for a front axle sort of thing.
Tiguan closely related to a Golf and most are not 4wd. some are Haldex.
Most of them are 4Motion and there seem to be people charging about on sand dunes with them, so I suspect the 4WD is pretty robust - I've heard great reports about the T5 4Motion being used on expeditions
Tig has a small boot. Toe rag does not.
Thankfully I only need to carry small children's stuff and shopping, not dead bodies so the boot size shouldn't be too much of an issue.
Looking at a few things online it looks like the 2.5 Toerag returns about 25MPG. The 4Mo Tiguans look to be delivering about 40MPG which is much happier on the wallet.
I do very much like the Toerag, because I think it would be just marvellous, but I suspect my girls would dismiss it out of hand in a back-to-back Tiguan contest, because the Tiguan has fold-down trays on the back of the front seats.
Oh and a lot of the Tiguans have DAB, which is a major draw for me.
