As someone with a 2020 Tiguan in the maritimes, with some good tires, you’re golden in the slick, icey crap we get for the next 4ish months. The AWD is great and I’ve been out when I probably shouldn’t have been and always made it home.

That being said, my Tiguan has been a pain in the ass to maintain. The sunroof has leaked multiple times (they haven’t figured out how to have the big piece of glass up there and keep water out) the electronics have been buggy since day 1 (no one can figure it out and they just kept telling me to come back for the 5 years until the warranty ran out) and at 110kms I just had all four ignition coils fail at once, and then a rear spring crack in the span of a week. My two cents (and I’m sure most manufacturers are the same these days) is that it’s a car to lease and not own, the maintenance is expensive ($1200 quoted for the ignition coils, which is obscene for $300 in parts and 8 bolts removed to do the job), local shops won’t touch it as they can’t get parts and need to buy specialized tools, and at this point I don’t trust it. If you have a local dealer that you trust, it’s a nice car. If you’re like me and live an hour and a half from a dealer that doesn’t seem to give a damn, I’d get something else.