Volkswagen T-Cross Review and Prices

You’ll have absolutely no trouble getting comfortable in the front of the VW T-Cross. The doors open nice and wide and its raised ride height means you don’t have to lean down to slide into the driver’s seat.

Once you’re inside, you’ll find there’s plenty of adjustment in the seat and steering wheel to give you a good view out. You even get adjustable lumbar support as standard to help prevent backache on long drives and passenger seat-height adjustment comes as standard across the range.

Space in the back is pretty good, too. The VW T-Cross’s tall body means there’s enough headroom for six-footers to get comfy and there’s loads of space for their feet under the front seats, even if those in the front like their seats nice and low. There isn’t a great deal of space for three adults to sit side-by-side in the back, but this is a common issue in many small SUVs.

Every VW T-Cross comes with sliding rear seats as standard and, with these in their most rearward position, there’s plenty of kneeroom for tall passengers. Slide the rear bench forward and things get rather cramped, but kids will still have loads of room to stretch out.

The Isofix fixtures aren’t covered so you can just slot your child seat in without too much fiddling. But you will have to move the front seat forward a bit if you are fitting a rear-facing child seat.

Also a passenger won’t be able to sit in the middle seat if you have fitted two child seats on the outer seats. The car’s body isn’t wide enough.

Speaking of kids, it’s dead easy to fit a child seat in the back of the VW T-Cross. The wide rear door openings and exposed ISOFIX anchor points make it easy to fit a child seat and the T-Cross’s raised roof means you won’t have to stoop down to strap in a child. You will have to move the front seat forward slightly to fit a bulky rear-facing child seat, though.

The VW T-Cross’s practical cabin has plenty of space for you to squirrel away a few family bits and bobs. The glovebox is reasonably roomy (it’d be better if there weren’t a CD player in there occupying most of the available space), there’s space under the front armrest for a few drinks cans and there’s a pair of cupholders in the centre console.

You get a tray under the dashboard for your phone and every one of the VW T-Cross’s four door bins is large enough to carry a 500ml bottle. You don’t get a folding rear armrest or any cupholders in the back, but SE models and above come with a pair of USB sockets between the front seats for passengers in the back to share.

The VW T-Cross’ 385-litre boot is around the same size as that in the SEAT Arona and Skoda Kamiq. It’s big enough to carry a few suitcases and a baby buggy and every car comes with an adjustable boot floor to let you choose between outright capacity and a flat load lip to help when loading bulky luggage.

Unfortunately, you can’t lower the boot floor in cars fitted with the optional Beats stereo, but at least there’s still absolutely loads of underfloor storage.

If you need to carry even more luggage, the VW T-Cross’s back seats slide forwards by 14cm to boost its boot capacity to 455 litres. That’s more than almost all small SUVs bar the capacious Citroen C3 Aircross. In this configuration you have to be careful not to let smaller bags slip down the gap behind the back seats – you’ll have the devil’s own job trying to retrieve them later.

For transporting some seriously large luggage, the back seats fold down in a two-way (60:40) split to open up a 1,281-litre load bay. This is almost exactly as large as the roomy Citroen and easily big enough to accommodate a bike with both its wheels attached. The boot floor itself is flat and there’s no step behind the back seats with the boot floor in its raised position.

You also get a couple of tether points and a pair of shopping hooks to stop smaller items and groceries rolling about when you’re driving.