My wife gets rental cars quite regularly for work trips, and earlier this week she had a T-Roc Citylife for a few days. I drove it a few times honestly expecting to be unimpressed, but it was quite the opposite.
Despite the fact that with only 22,000kms on the clock I needed to add about 500ml of oil and about 400ml of coolant to it (I always check the tyres/oil/coolant before my wife sets off in a rental car), the new automatic gearbox is much smoother than the older DSG, and honestly the gearchanges are almost just as fast while moving (not that 99% of people buying these would notice or care).
The engine (1.4L T) was smooth and felt stronger than the 110kw and 250nm suggests. I was expecting it to be well and truly underpowered (like a family members Mazda CX-3) but was impressed with the torque and it felt quite peppy.
Digital dash was cool and I like how you can play around with different displays - this was my first experience with a VW with a digital dash.
Colour is subjective of course, but this one was an unusual cream/off-white/undercoat colour which wouldnt be a colour I would ever pick.
Dislikes: Interior a bit "cheap" feeling, but keeping in mind this is a $40k car. Wasn't a fan of the haptic buttons for the air conditioning. Boot floor was very high (making for a small boot) but has a huge open cavity under the boot floor (presumably to leave room for the AWD system in the R models)
Overall was quite impressed with this little T-Roc. Would definitely consider the T-Roc R as a replacement to our ageing Audi SQ5 when the time comes.
Pics (not my photos, but same car and same colour).


Despite the fact that with only 22,000kms on the clock I needed to add about 500ml of oil and about 400ml of coolant to it (I always check the tyres/oil/coolant before my wife sets off in a rental car), the new automatic gearbox is much smoother than the older DSG, and honestly the gearchanges are almost just as fast while moving (not that 99% of people buying these would notice or care).
The engine (1.4L T) was smooth and felt stronger than the 110kw and 250nm suggests. I was expecting it to be well and truly underpowered (like a family members Mazda CX-3) but was impressed with the torque and it felt quite peppy.
Digital dash was cool and I like how you can play around with different displays - this was my first experience with a VW with a digital dash.
Colour is subjective of course, but this one was an unusual cream/off-white/undercoat colour which wouldnt be a colour I would ever pick.
Dislikes: Interior a bit "cheap" feeling, but keeping in mind this is a $40k car. Wasn't a fan of the haptic buttons for the air conditioning. Boot floor was very high (making for a small boot) but has a huge open cavity under the boot floor (presumably to leave room for the AWD system in the R models)
Overall was quite impressed with this little T-Roc. Would definitely consider the T-Roc R as a replacement to our ageing Audi SQ5 when the time comes.
Pics (not my photos, but same car and same colour).
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