Volkswagen will build a new small sports utility vehicle – newly named Tiguan – in Wolfsburg.

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The smaller version of VW’s Touareg would be marketed from 2008 onwards, Volkswagen said in a statement cited by Reuters.


Europe’s biggest car maker had held a contest to name the new model, the news agency noted. Around 350,000 readers of Auto Bild magazine voted.

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