Are you shopping for a compact SUV in Lewisville, Texas, that you can use for daily commutes to your job and go on weekend road trips with your friends? We at Lewisville Volkswagen want to help you find a vehicle that offers the versatility, performance, and spaciousness you need for your busy life. Instead of buying the 2021 Ford Escape, why not consider the 2021 Volkswagen Tiguan? This sporty VW SUV has a lot to offer.

More seating and storage space

Even though the Tiguan and Escape may look comparable in size from the outside, the Tiguan offers more room for your passengers or cargo inside. The spacious Tiguan provides seven seats for passengers across three rows, while the Escape only offers a maximum of five seats. Those extra two seats can be worthwhile when you’re going on a road trip through Texas’ central plains with your friends and want everyone’s significant others to tag along.

If you don’t need seats for two extra passengers, you could remove them and take advantage of that space as additional storage behind the second row of the Tiguan. That’s 33 cubic feet of space for your camping gear or recent furniture purchase. For being comparable in total length and width, the Tiguan’s additional five inches in length and smart maximization of cabin space give you extra room for your passengers or more overall cargo space.

Useful luxuries included

Even if you pay for the base-level Tiguan S model, you’ll still get technology features on the 2021 Tiguan that will cost you extra on the 2021 Escape. For example, the Volkswagen SUV has integrated turn signals on both exterior side mirrors, which makes it easier for other nearby vehicles in Lewisville to notice when you’re planning to make a turn.

Another standard function of those side mirrors is that they’re heated, so you can melt away that early morning frost without having to scrape by hand. And whenever you travel north to a family gathering or national park getaway, snow and ice won’t be problematic for visibility.

When you’re traveling at night, your front-row passenger will appreciate the illuminated vanity mirror so they can see themselves clearly at night. The standard privacy glass keeps peering eyes from looking through the windows at your passengers or their belongings. None of those are standard features on the Escape SUV.

A sporty ride

As the Tiguan bears the Volkswagen badge, you’d expect that the SUV delivers responsive performance and agile handling — and you’d be correct. The standard engine on the 2021 Tiguan is a 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine that uses direct fuel injection and a Start-Stop system. This motor produces 184 horsepower and 221 lb-ft of torque so you won’t feel a lag with accelerating with a full caravan of passengers.

The basic engine that comes on the 2021 Ford Escape is a smaller turbocharged three-cylinder engine with only 1.5-liter displacement, which musters less horsepower and torque. You’d have to pay extra to upgrade to a higher trim level of the Ford Escape to get its 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine with a Start-Stop system.

Another way that the Tiguan can make driving in Lewisville fun is the manual control function that comes with the Tiptronic® mode via the Active Control switch on the available 4MOTION® all-wheel drive system. It lets you take control of your SUV’s performance in a way that the Escape doesn’t.

As a versatile, roomy compact SUV, the 2021 Volkswagen 2015 Tiguan outdoes the 2021 Ford Escape in these ways. Interested in seeing if the Tiguan is a good fit for your active, social lifestyle? Take the SUV for a test drive here at Lewisville Volkswagen.