Because families are like small logistics companies: a vehicle does not just have to transport the children, but also the weekend shopping, picnic utensils, toys, sports equipment, holiday luggage and much more. The Touran can do this easily. But does a whole child’s room also fit in the luggage compartment of the ideal family car?
Enough space for a whole child’s room?
Which car is best for everyday life with children? For families, that is an important question with a clear answer – one with a large luggage compartment. 88 percent of the participants in a reader survey conducted by the German magazines “Auto Straßenverkehr” and “Leben & erziehen” said that this was particularly important for them.
When a couple is soon to become a small family, it is time to build a nest. After all, everything should be just perfect when the young parents come home with their new-born baby for the first time. The future child’s room has already been freshly painted – but what is to go into it? Parents-to-be find answers when browsing through a furniture store: a practical chest of drawers with changing mat and an oval cot are first on the list. The baby is also sure to have sweet dreams under a pretty canopy. Then the Tripp Trapp high chair – the new addition to the family will not be able to use this for a few months, but this is simply a classic. And then a shelf, a few boxes for toys, cute pictures in a wooden frame … And the rocking horse has to come along as well, as it is simply too beautiful to leave behind.
After a stroll through the furniture store, the packages stack up at the cash desk in next to no time. But how can the parents-to-be get all this home? With the Volkswagen Touran, of course – a whole child’s room fits into the back. With a luggage compartment capacity of 1,980 litres (with rear bench seat folded down) and a maximum payload of over 600 kilograms (depending on the vehicle equipment), transporting the chest of drawers, cot, high chair and all the rest home is child’s play.
The family grows and the children get older – but the Touran remains the perfect family car. Whether shopping for the weekend, an inflatable crocodile and a large picnic basket for a summer afternoon at the lake, a sledge and a change of clothes for tobogganing in the winter – the Touran is perfectly equipped for many transport tasks. It is also no problem to take the kids and their friends on an outing, because there is space for three child seats on the sliding rear bench seat. A third row of seats is optionally available. With the two individual seats, which completely disappear in the luggage compartment floor when not in use, the Touran becomes a seven seater in next to no time.
Spacious stowage areas in the doors can accommodate both cuddly animals and toys as well as food and drink for the journey.
Practical, reliable and variable. That is exactly what families want from a vehicle – whether for no-fuss loading of a whole child’s room or safe transport of the children. It is therefore no surprise which family car was chosen in first place in its category by the 22,000 readers of “Auto Straßenverkehr” and “Leben & erziehen”. That’s right: the Touran.
