2025 Volkswagen Tayron seven-seater spotted testing

The Volkswagen Tayron has been photographed testing without camouflage just one month after images of the SUV were first leaked online by Chinese government documents. 

The current Tayron is exclusive to China, but it has been reported a second-generation Tayron is coming to replace the Tiguan Allspace in Volkswagen’s key international markets, including Australia in 2025 or later.

These 'spy' images show Volkswagen has used clever disguise to make the Tayron look like a current Tiguan Allspace, and hide the new model's design features.

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Images published by the Chinese government showed an SUV badged as a Tiguan L – reportedly the Chinese name for what will be sold elsewhere as the Tayron.

Documents filed with China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology show the new SUV measures 4735mm long, 1859mm wide and 1682mm tall – or 1mm longer, 20mm wider and 6mm lower than the outgoing Tiguan Allspace, on the same 2791mm wheelbase.

Compared to the new generation of the regular, five-seat Tiguan, the Tayron grows by 197mm in length, 17mm in width and 43mm in height.

The Volkswagen Tayron is expected to mirror the regular Tiguan's available 2.0-litre turbo-petrol engine, with a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission.

In Europe, the Volkswagen Tayron is expected to be offered with two plug-in hybrid systems, producing 150kW and 200kW respectively, both pairing electric motors with a turbocharged 1.5-litre four-cylinder petrol engine.

An electric-only driving range of more than 100km is reportedly being targeted.

As previously reported, Australian-delivered examples of the Volkswagen Tayron are planned to be built in Wolfsburg, Germany – rather than Mexico, as per the current Tiguan Allspace, or China.