VW’s crossover gets a mid-life facelift, with updated styling and more kit.
2022 Volkswagen T-ROC
The Volkswagen T-Roc facelift has been revealed, four years after the crossover first joined the brand's (European) line-up. The refreshed 2022 model receives a host of exterior styling and interior design upgrades, as well as lightly revised petrol and diesel engines. The changes are aimed at increasing the competitiveness of the popular crossover – sales of which now total more than one million worldwide – and have been applied to both the five-door model and the two-door cabriolet.
The new-look front end is a key styling change for the first-generation T-Roc, which is midway through its planned eight-year model cycle. It features reworked headlights, with a slightly altered shape, and new LED graphics (optional with IQ Light matrix units), a revised grille, with a more heavily structured black plastic insert, and a light band running on both sides of a larger Volkswagen logo, together with a redesigned bumper that houses new daytime running lights and a new-look lower central air duct.
At the rear, there are lightly revised tail-lights with new LED graphics, as well as an altered rear bumper. The facelifted T-Roc also comes with redesigned alloy wheels, ranging from 16-inches to 19-inches in diameter.
It is inside, though, where Volkswagen has focused much of its attention on the facelifted T-Roc. Central to its revised interior is a new soft-touch slush-molded dashboard. Replacing the hard plastic unit currently used by the Volkswagen crossover, it houses a new 8.0-inch digital instrument display and a new, free-standing touchscreen that is offered in three sizes – 6.5-inch, 8.0-inch, and 9.2-inch – depending on the trim level.
There is also a new multifunction steering wheel from the Golf, reworked fabric door trims, and revised switchgear, including digital controls for the air conditioning on the centre console.
As before, a performance-based R model heads the new T-Roc line-up. It receives its own individual styling cues. Included is a uniquely styled front bumper, with black highlights, and vertically stacked daytime-running lights, mirroring the look of the latest Golf R.
Other traditional R styling details include standard 18-inch Jerez alloy wheels, aluminium-look exterior mirror housings, a larger spoiler, darkened tail-light lenses, with new-look LED graphics, and a more heavily structured rear bumper with black detailing and integrated diffuser, as well as quad tailpipes (optionally available as Akrapovic titanium units, as on the Golf R).
The flagship R model also gets sporting accents on the inside. There’s a thicker-rimmed, flat-bottomed R steering wheel with an integral R mode button, R-specific instruments, stainless steel pedal caps and footrest, more heavily contoured R seats and a standard 9.2-inch infotainment display with a series of R-specific driving monitor functions, among other individual touches.
The engine line-up for standard versions of the facelifted T-Roc mirrors that of today’s international model, with three turbocharged TSI petrol units and two turbocharged TDI diesel, paired with either a 6-speed manual or a 7-speed dual-clutch DSG gearbox.
Among the petrol engines is a base 1.0-litre, three-cylinder with 110hp, as well as two four-cylinder units – a 1.5-litre with 150hp and a 2.0-litre with 190hp. The two four-cylinder types of diesel have the same 2.0-litre capacity and offer a choice of 115hp or 150hp.
Front-wheel drive is standard on all but the 190hp 2.0-litre petrol model, which receives a 4Motion four-wheel drive. It is also an option on the 150hp 2.0-litre diesel.
The new T-Roc R, which comes exclusively in five-door form, continues to run a 2.0-litre, four-cylinder, turbocharged petrol engine, with 300hp and 400Nm of torque, in combination with a standard 7-speed dual-clutch DSG gearbox and 4Motion four-wheel drive. Volkswagen claims a 0-100kph time of 4.9sec and a governed 250kph top speed for the performance-focused T-Roc.
-by AmaanAttar
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