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We began our journey with the Taiguns from Pasadena, a northern suburb of Los Angeles, where the cars had been shipped all the way from India to be part of the World Car Award’s #LATestFest, an annual event where jury members from around the world gather at the time of the LA Auto Show to usually drive cars that are not available in their markets. For the Taigun, that meant all the jury members except for the six from India. As export versions of the Taigun were not being produced yet, the jurors got to drive the India-spec versions of the SUV and that meant that the steering wheels were on the wrong side of the cars – on the right for India as opposed to being on the left for the US as well as all other countries where they drive on the right side of the road. Both the SUVs were the top-of-the-line versions of the two lines that VW has on sale in India – the Dynamic Line and the Performance Line, the first being with the 1-litre TSI engine and the other being with the 1.5-litre TSI EVO engine. While the Dynamic Line SUV was Wild Cherry Red with the engine mated to a 6-speed manual transmission, the Curcuma Yellow Performance Line SUV had a 7-speed DSG gearbox. Now this was a double whammy for global automotive journalists as not only were most of them driving with the steering wheels on the opposite side of what they were used to but many of them were not used to driving stick-shifts, and that too with the gear shift lever falling on the wrong hand. Thankfully, the cars came through the ordeal unscathed despite our worries and all the jury members I spoke with only had positive things to say about both the cars.
This story is from the December 2021 edition of Auto Today.
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