I’m going to be honest with you: I didn’t really think I was going to give this car a decent review. It’s not because I’m actually hostile to Volkswagen or anything like that, but more that I just didn’t think I cared. And not just a normal sort of not caring, more like the kind of aggressive non-caring a petulant child feels while stuck in a long-term records storage facility where the only screen available was playing 1980s reruns of The McLaughlin Group, nonstop. I mean like a collapse on the floor and writhe around screaming “I DON’T CAAAAAARRRRRREEEEEE” sort of apathy. That was my attitude towards the Taos.
The reason for this is that I saw the Taos as the most baseline, default sort of vehicle you can get in America right now, a compact SUV with a four-cylinder inline turbo engine, four doors, four tires on wheels that are too big, and paradoxically overdone yet wildly forgettable styling. To make matters worse, the Taos was just part of the SUV/Crossover core of Volkswagen’s lineup, which seems to just be the same basic vehicle in a few barely variable sizes, with some minor styling and pricing differences.
I mean, look:
That’s just three sizes of SUV that are all sort of interchangeable styling-wise, and one electric version. It feels pretty sterile when you compare it with the freewheeling madness that was VW about a half-century earlier:
Of course, if you dig deeper, all the cars in that picture above share one of just three engine types. Still, it’s hard to ignore how much more character VW used to have, especially from a styling standpoint.
But that’s not really a fair criticism to VW; this is just modernity, and there’s no question that modern cars are vastly more efficient and safe and fast and comfortable and all that, even if they do seem to lack a good bit of charm. But the point is, I wasn’t pre-disposed to be particularly welcoming to the Taos.
But you know what happened? I ended up really liking the Taos! I didn’t want to, but it just kind of happened! And there were two extremely simple and basic things that broke through my car-snobby resolve to get me to appreciate this compact SUV on its own merits.
Cheap And Colorful
Those two things were, sort of metaphorically, both green. First, there was the color, which was a bright and bold shade of tree-frog green, and that caught my attention. I’m so deeply, powerfully sick of monochrome grayscale cars, that seeing something in such a vivid and unashamed color just felt good. The Taos’ color palette isn’t huge, but there are at least two good, real colors in there:
That green and that blue are both fantastic colors that the Taos looks great in. I hope nobody orders any of the gray ones, ever.
The other green thing was the more metaphorical one, green as in money, because the Taos is cheap. Well, cheap by modern standards, and yeah, the price tends to go up pretty quickly as you start adding stuff, but it’s worth noting that the Taos does start under $25,000. The one I tested – a pretty loaded Taos SEL 4MOTION one – comes in at around $36,000 or so, which isn’t that cheap anymore, but is still a hell of a lot less than the average price of a new car was in 2024, which was almost $48,000.
So, it’s a good color, and it’s not crazy expensive. That’s a pretty good start. But there’s really one overarching thing I discovered about my experience with this car that endeared it to me:
It’s Remarkably Free Of Bullshit
That’s right! This is a car that, compared to a lot of the new cars I’ve driven recently, feels incredibly free of modern car bullshit! And that’s odd, because it is most definitely a modern car, with all the modern car stuff, but somehow the whole experience of dealing with this modern car felt easy and pleasant. It’s not a car that really asks much of you, at all. It just does the basic stuff you need a car to do, and it does them pretty well.
Don’t get me wrong, though, there’s still some modern car bullshit to deal with, like the embarrassing insistence on making fake exhaust pipe tips:
…but if you’re using your car properly within about a year those things should be broken completely off thanks to repeatedly smacking into grocery carts to see if you can send them skittering into the cart return corral, like you were a soccer player kicking a penalty shot.
When I say this car is happily free of bullshit some of that has to do with basic dash controls and user interface stuff; after just coming out of a VW ID.Buzz, I was used to things like touch-sensitive volume controls and horribly modal power window switches, so when I got into the Taos and saw window switches like this:
…and volume control knobs and other controls like these:
…the end result was that everything just worked, and worked easily, without really any amount of thought required on my part, which is good, because requiring me to think often ends in disaster.
Sure, I played around with VW’s native UX a bit, noting that it allows for a pretty robust set of off-road instruments that, statistically, precisely zero people who buy this car will ever use or need:
More important than VW’s native UX is that the Taos had wireless Apple CarPlay (Android Auto is available, too) so I just used that, since, like every other living mammal I’ve met, I prefer to just use my phone’s OS for center-stack stuff like music and navigation and podcasts or whatever. Also, and I think this is an important thing to note, the Taos had the best, easiest, most trouble-free wireless charging system I’ve ever used on a modern car.
I’m not kidding – you’d think this should be the same on every car, but for far too many cars I’ve tested over the past couple years, I’ve found the wireless chargers to be finicky, unreliable things. [Ed Note: I totally agree; wireless charging in cars tends to suck! -DT]. A lot of them are just poorly designed or positioned, causing the phone to slide out or get flung to the floor when you’re driving a bit, um, spiritedly, and almost all of them have stopped charging seemingly at random, or if the phone shifts two picometers too far in any direction and the electron shells get misaligned or whatever dark magic is used to make wireless charging happen.
The point is wireless phone charging pads in cars almost always suck. But not the Taos’ charging pad! It just worked, every time, and I didn’t even have to be extra careful about positioning the phone! It just worked, and kept working! I was furtively glancing at it, always expecting it to stop charging and give me some cryptic apology on screen, but that never happened!
Oh, and look at this:
See that little hole up there? That’s right above the charging pad. As I do with any unknown hole I encounter, I shoved some fingers up in there and found it was blowing a steady stream of cold air right at the charging pad. Now, I’m not certain about this just yet (I did reach out to VW for confirmation) but I think this is a special vent designed to keep your phone from overheating on the charger in warm weather, something I’ve seen happen many, many times. That’s brilliant.
This is what I’m talking about: The car isn’t particularly revolutionary or even remarkable at anything, but it just does all the basics very well. Like the cargo area:
There aren’t lots of clever cubbies or ways to configure things, but what you do get is a pretty cavernous space with a fairly rectangular shape. You get about 25 cubic feet of space with the 4MOTION one, and about 28 with the FWD version. Fold the seat down and you have a nice 66 (FWD) or 60 (AWD) cubic feet of volume you can fill with your crap.
And, under the rear floor, look!
An actual spare tire! This is becoming less and less common, but I still like knowing that they’re not extinct yet.
In a lot of ways, the Taos just reminds me of what a Golf once was: a general-use, do-whatever car. Fit people, fit some stuff, move them around, don’t fall apart, make driving at least a little engaging, and boom, that’s all you need. The Taos feels pretty much like that, just with some silly SUV-ification slapped onto it, because, you know, it’s the style of the time, like an onion on your belt.
What’s It Like Inside?
I’ve always felt that Volkswagen has had a knack for making pleasant interiors. In fact, that’s why I was duped into buying the miserable VW Tiguan I have – the thing has been a sort of nightmare to own, but I’ll be damned if that interior isn’t a pleasant space to be in. The Taos follows this tradition quite well: It’s an airy interior, with a nice mix of light and dark upholstery, and the optional full-length moonroof is a delight.
It has a powered cover that can slide into place, but I don’t see why you’d ever want it unless there was a huge baboon or something laying on its stomach on your roof and you didn’t feel like staring at its genitals any longer. But how often does that happen? Twice a year?
The materials inside are better than you’d expect for an entry-level car, too. Look at these door cards, for example:
It’s a bold, active design with good armrests and a nice deep storage cubby. It doesn’t look or feel cheap at all! And, even better, all those little stitches are real, not those embarrassing molded-in stitches you’d find on an old Chevy Citation or something. Look close and you can see:
The seats are comfortable, too, including at the rear, which has a fold-down armrest with cupholders and a six-foot party sub/ski pass-through and vents and USB ports back there. It’s everything you need, nothing you don’t, and that’s just great.
How Is It To Drive?
I’m told the 2025 version of the Taos has 19 more horses than the previous one, for a total of 174 horsepower, and 185 pound-feet of torque. That’s plenty, especially considering the Taos only weighs about 3,400 or so pounds, which is pretty light by modern standards. The 1.5-liter inline-four turbo engine gives decent acceleration (I’m told it’ll get to 60 mph in about seven seconds), and while I did find the way the (new for this year for the 4MOTION one) 8-speed auto decided to shift a bit peculiar at times, it was generally fine to the point of being, well, forgettable.
I mean that in a good way; the performance of the Taos did what I needed when I wanted it to, and there’s nothing wrong with that! It wasn’t the most memorable driving experience ever, but sometimes, that’s okay! And it fits with the overall character of this car, which is, fundamentally, easy. Undemanding. It’s a tool that gets you and your stuff places, and you barely have to think about it.
Efficiency-wise, the Taos was fine, but that’s about it. I got between 26 and 29 mpg on average, while doing the sort of driving that isn’t particularly troubled with fuel economy. I bet you could squeeze more out of it, just as I’m sure you could get worse.
Some Nice Details And Final Thoughts
The VW Taos isn’t a car filled with Easter eggs or clever gimmicks or anything like that, as much as I love those things sometimes. It’s more of just a good, easy-to-live-with all-rounder sort of car. Sure, that lower grille is kind of huge and silly-looking, but overall I think the car looks pretty good, perhaps in an unremarkable way, but picking one of the bold colors helps a lot there.
It’s just a modern take on a compact-ish wagon, and that’s a great thing to be.
Oh, and the taillights are pretty good, as well! We’re fortunate to be living in an expressive era of taillight design, so we get fun things like the illuminated VW logo:
…and I’m happy to report that the Taos uses amber for the rear indicators:
It may sound a bit absurd to put it like this, but the thing I liked best about the Taos is that it didn’t piss me off. At all! I feel like every car I’ve tested recently has had some wildly annoying detail – touch-screen-based air vent controls or a finicky phone charging mat or being a pain to get in or out of or something like that, and Taos had none of those things!
It was comfortable, easy to maneuver and park, drove well, offered plenty of room for people and stuff, and had controls that were intuitive and easy to use — there was just minimal bullshit associated with this car.
It’s not going to inflame passions or inspire songs or dreams, but for vast numbers of drivers, who cares? That’s fine! They just need a machine to get them and some stuff all over the place, every day, easily. And the Taos can do that.
It’s too new for me to give any kind of informed opinion on how it may age or what maintenance will be like, which is important, but we’ll just have to wait and see. What I can say is that right now, if you are in the market for a not-so-expensive car that will do what you need and not give you urges to put your fist through a touchscreen, I think the Taos is worth a look.
Especially in green.
GREEN! I like it. Maybe not the FIRST green I would pick from PPG’s catalog, but at least it’s a color.
But is it the Frog puke green from the old Rabbit/Golf era? Now that was a green
My kid loves their alien II green Kia soul.
Well, at least it’s not the Subaru “plasma“ green that covers my wife’s Subaru. I was expecting something like the color of the fourth state of matter, say a lightning bolt but it turns out that Subaru had the blood component type of plasma, which is basically the same color as bile.
At this point I’ll take anything as long as it’s not black, grey, white, 1980s lipstick red.
It’s certainly one of the SUVs of all time.
But couldn’t they have avoided placing the reverse sensors in the reflectors? That just seems exceedingly lazy.
Sounds easier to repair to me.
Typical VAG bait and switch. Low base price then tack $10k on for a few options-on a subcompact wagon. But from dealer ads I’m seeing from Tucson and Phoenix, they’re selling well under MSRP. $36k isn’t cheap for a small wagon. You can get a nicely optioned CR-V or RAV4 for that price. I’ll keep my ’21 Jeep Cherokee 4×4 3.2L for many years to come. Hard pass.
Not really a bait and switch? Competitors like the Hyundai Kona and Toyota Corolla Cross have the same price spread, up to $36k too. In reality most shoppers will balk at that price for the size and move up a class, in which case VW dealers will happy steer them toward a Tiguan.
Hey. Jason. I’m proud of you for writing a new car review.
Good job.
but the thing I liked best about the Taos is that it didn’t piss me off…
I had a 2024 Taos SEL in Cornflower Blue as a rental for work and put over 700 miles on it. My daily is an Arteon SEL Premium R-Line and it was refreshing to see that the UI was similar to my Arteon. I didn’t have to learn how to use as in so many other rentals that I end up with. Beyond that, it drove well, reminded me of an old Golf that I once had, a comfortable seating position, and a nicely done interior. I bypassed the economy minded upshifts by using the “manual” mode on the shifter. Would I own one? I’m not a SUV person and won’t own one but would recommend, especially in green or blue.
Kind of surprised you were willing to praise them at all with that TSI badge on the corner. Your experiences with the 2.0 variant previously being similar to way to many other in my experience. I just hope the even smaller version in this thing is better after say 80k miles.
Honestly though, at that HP range, I would still probably take the old 2.5 five cylinder instead. That taxi motor will take this thing to 150K miles without much fuss I would guess.
Love the green hate the fake tail pipes. Thank you so much for calling in a car in most of the article. It’s just a fine little wagon and that’s OK. I absolutely love the old Volkswagen picture. I do miss variety of both style and color.
An honest review of an honest, simple (in this day and age) CUV.
And yet no mention of the fake tailpipe or whatever it is on the front of the car. It’s huge
Not one of those Lexus Goatse front end treatments so that’s a plus.
It is not a BEV, and the reason that VW is on a fasttrack to bankruptcy.
Money invested in developing non BEV, is money NOT invested in BEV, and will the trademark of companies that no longer exists.
Quit drinking the bong water. It’s damaging your brain.
Our family car is a 2020 Tiguan. Handsome car (I think they botched the redesign). Black with light gray interior and pano roof.
It has been a great car, we’ve done really long road trips with it and it’s exceptionally comfortable. Suspension soaks up bumps great. One thing cool is that in the US we only get the long wheelbase version, which means that the sliding and reclining rear bench becomes almost luxurious for it’s occupants, even the middle seat is decent.
Power is decent, cruise control (basic) is incredibly good and consistent. A/C is strong, controls are easy to use.
I mean, it truly is a really good car. I imagine the Taos is a “shrunken” version of that experience.
Funny how wireless charging is always mentioned in car reviews. It’s been around for years and is very cheap to install.
You can get an aftermarket China USB wireless charging pad for around $2.. I buy many of those to give to the kids and have everywhere in the home, workshop, boat – and cars 😉
lol, funny we got no less than two of these in a white Elephant Amazon return box this Christmas. they were apple models specific, so we passed them on , but I hear they work fine.
I have two of the Amazon iPhone charging pads and they are great!
My iPhone has a terminal case of pocket lint so the wireless chargers are the only ones that work.
The only problem with the aftermarket wireless chargers is finding someplace to put them that isn’t in the windshield. (I need all the windshield I can get in a Prius) or someplace down by your knees because the dashboard is full of crap.
It’s just a 2016 SEAT Ateca with a new face, isn’t it?
My Sorento has a full pano roof and it’s pretty much always closed unless my daughter wants to look at the stars.
All it does is make the interior twice as hot, and the sun comes directly over the leading edge of the roof and beams me directly in the eyes. It also increases road noise with the cover open, and makes the head space colder in the winter.
My experience with this ownership makes me not particularly care if I ever have another pano roof.
I get why some people aren’t real big into sunroofs. But I adore them, and currently don’t have a car in the family with one. I’ll take all the annoyances that come with sunroofs for the ability to provide more glass. It’s funny because we have so few truly great windows down weather days around here. But when those days happen, I want to feel like I’m basically driving a convertible, even though I’m obviously not.
I tried it a few times. The sun directly in my eyes makes it less than ideal.
Me, vitamin D deficient and sufferer of SAD, squinting blindly into the all too rare sunlight: “This is so, so awesome.”
I’m a pretty big supporter of seeing where I’m going while driving. It appears that concern is secondary to some.
Vision is overrated.
In the MCU, I agree. In daily life, I find it key to enjoying my two favourite hobbies: Cars and video games.
I was going to point this out as well, I’ve had many vehicles with glass roofs, including the nearly all glass Scion tC, and in the winter the covers stay closed, those things just radiate cold air otherwise. The sunroof in my Si is positioned behind the sight lines of the driver’s eyes, so I haven’t had issues with glare when the sun has been out the few times I’ve been able to use it since I bought it in the fall, and they sure are nice for night cruising in the summer.
I LOVE a good sunroof. But full pano glass is just too much. Everything in moderation.
I’m with you. At the least, keep the roof a separate option from the other features (which H/K are bad about). I don’t think I’ll ever have a car without a moonroof, and I like a pano roof in theory but tend to be skeptical over a regular one. Ones I have had are noticeably creakier*, and with power sunshades you usually can’t vent part of the glass without having the entire shade open, either way not helpful when parking on a hot day.
The Mk7 Golf hatch “pano” roof was more just an oversized roof over the front seats, so didn’t even offer appreciably more glass area but still had the disadvantages of more rubbing and creaking. That was at least a manual shade though.
*Maybe the fixed glass roof like Teslas or Toyota Prius & Crowns fixes that, but no opening ability at all loses some appeal.
I do like the tilt-vent functionality you get from a more traditionally sized sunroof.
All rear turn signals should be amber. Cars should have side repeaters too. These 2 things help increase safety greatly. Car companies that dont do these simple things are also skipping the hidden big and small things. You probably shouldnt buy their garbage.
What pisses me off the most is that BMW, Benz & Audi go out of their way to make the turn signals red, instead of just using their normal Euro taillights. Like WT actual F.
I ve noticed that too. Home-euro versions are built properly and then they spend millions of dollars to f them up for the dummies in the US. (millions > tooling, engineering, added build complexity, synchronizing, etc…..)
It’s actually even worse than that, because even us US dummies (not even the truly stupid ones) have any problem with amber turn signals. Granted, most don’t dwell on it or recognize the safety value, but still, we do use amber turn signals in a lot of cars. Hell, my Taurus (which is pretty much US-market exclusive) has amber turn signals. Bonkers.
I love the green (of course) and overall it seems perfectly fine. But that top trim is a raw deal, like many are. If I’m paying an extra 10k+ on the base model of a car, I want a powertrain upgrade. A decent hybrid powertrain to offset some of the option costs in the form of fuel savings would make 36k feel a little more reasonable.
Not sure how much VW chooses to punish you for opting for the base model, but assuming it comes with enough equipment, that seems like a decent deal for a crossover that manages to be closer in size to a compact than a subcompact.
Edit: Ah some quick research on the VW site seems to imply that to get 4Motion you have to go for the expensive SEL version tested here. At all other tiers you’re settling for FWD. Which is probably fine for most, but you can bet VW dealers up here aren’t going to stock anything other than SELs.
Just checked and you can get 4Motion on the entry level S trim as well in the US
Yeah it’s just that the SEL only comes with 4Motion. The other trims you have a choice and on the website build tool that’s usually buried in another screen in the process and/or treated as a different trim/spec in the compare tool, not listed as “optional.”
So strange, I went back into the build tool, and there’s an option to add 4Motion. I swear that wasn’t an option earlier this morning, but maybe I’m losing it.
the Taos was just part of the SUV/Crossover core of Volkswagen’s lineup, which seems to just be the same basic vehicle in a few barely variable sizes, with some minor styling and pricing differences
I just don’t get their lineup and how they consider it efficient to have so many models, many of which seem to be market-specific. Add to those four the ones they sell in Europe: T-Cross, Taigo, T-Roc, T-Roc cabrio, ID.5, Tayron and Touraeg.
How does this Taos thing fit in there? What is it equivalent to? And why not just directly sell that in the US instead of spending resources developing yet another slightly different flavour of the same thing?
The Taos is offered in markets like China and South America so typically cheaper to produce, typically larger in size too. IIRC: T-Cross is closer to a Hyundai Venue/Kia Soul size and FWD only. T-Roc/Taigo are a little bigger than that but closest; they’re smaller than the Taos, which is sized close to say a Corolla Cross if not quite as big as a Honda HR-V. It’s like other markets still getting the Toyota C-HR after we got the Cross, or our HR-V being bigger.
Europe gets a smaller Tiguan that the Taos would be too close in size to, and that Tiguan would be a bit undersized for its CR-V/RAV4 class. Hyundai/Kia do similar with different sizes of Tucson/Sportage (minus a 3rd row).
Tayron basically replaces the version of the outgoing Tiguan we did get, the 3-row Tiguan Allspace. I need to dig out the US Tiguan article on this site as someone helpfully explained the differences in our Tiguan and global Tiguan/Tayron offerings.
‘Course many other markets get multiple models and sell whatever version we do get alongside each other, but for us it’s whatever’s bigger ‘n’ cheaper for volume.
Because VW has always been absolutely stupid planning their product in North America – specifically in the USA. Mexico tends to get a lot of the Euro stuff we don’t get. For some reason VW seems to think they need to make US-specific cars while forgetting the reason people liked VW at all was because they sold european cars to the mass market. No other manufacturer does that in the USA other than the high-end German and Swedish brands.
We don’t get any of the vehicles you listed above. The Touareg would kill in the USA now, but it was here about ten years too early for most Americans to stomach the price. Now it’s a bargain on the used market if you can find one. Once VW stopped selling their euro cars, I stopped being a customer. The Tiguan my wife has (the Tiguan Allspace to europeans) is probably the last VW I’ll own unless the Seat/Cupra brand arrives in the USA and sells euro cars again. It’s a shame. I’ve owned a B5 Passat, three golfs (Mk 5, 6, and 7) and now the Tig.
Whinge all you like about VW’s SUV line up but it’s nothing on Mazda’s.
I just bought a food mixer the Mrs wanted, I had 2 comments, One was the price of it… The other was the fact that I could choose from 20! different colours, At least 8 of which I liked yet looking at new cars you get red, blue and 5 shades of grey. It’s one of the main things that puts me right off.
Quite liking the look of this Taos in green though, I wonder if we have them in the UK.
To anwer my own question, It doesn’t look like it yet.
“And not just a normal sort of not caring, more like the kind of aggressive non-caring a petulant child feels while stuck in a long-term records storage facility where the only screen available was playing 1980s reruns of The McLaughlin Group, nonstop. I mean like a collapse on the floor and writhe around screaming “I DON’T CAAAAAARRRRRREEEEEE” sort of apathy”
So I’m not the only one.
“It was comfortable, easy to maneuver and park, drove well, offered plenty of room for people and stuff, and had controls that were intuitive and easy to use — there was just minimal bullshit associated with this car.”
…
“if you are in the market for a not-so-expensive car that will do what you need and not give you urges to put your fist through a touchscreen, I think the Taos is worth a look.
Especially in green.”
And that my friends is “surprise and delight” done right!
Thank you for the review and for the baboon advice! I almost fell off my chair from laughing so hard
It brought back
fondmemories of my early childhood. Way back in the 1970s I grew up next door to the first drive-thru safari park in the US, Warner Brothers’ Jungle Habitat. As the first of its kind, they didn’t really know what they were doing yet, and more than once the baboons escaped the park and rampaged through the area. Stranger Danger wasn’t yet a thing being taught to children, but my friends and I knew about Baboon Danger.Recall a drive thru Safari near Sandusky Ohio (1982?) where a camel stuck its head in our car window and tried to eat the passenger side headrest in our Ford Fairmont. Dad was decidedly NOT amused. I would have been about 6, first Cedar Point trip.
By the 80’s they had at least learned a few things. Jungle Habitat was the alpha version of drive through safaris, before dipshits knew to keep their windows rolled up around the lions.
https://nj1015.com/the-jungle-habitat-lion-attack/
Darwin approves.
I’m surprised nobody else has brought up chainsaws and lead-acid batteries after that bait.Perhaps you should be sending us (well, ok, them) a medal or Taco Bell gift card, Torch.
What the actual…. I mean, this happens to me at least twice a quarter or more, easily…! Hugely endowed baboons lying prone, stomach side down on automobile sunroofs is the plague in America no one is talking about.
Well it WAS an election year.
And now we have a whole new troop of baboons over our heads.
One the one hand the endowments on the new baboons are ridiculously miniscule.
On the other hand those new baboons are doing everything they can to draw attention to those ridiculously miniscule endowments.
Thank goodness for green.
For all the comparisons to the Golf, I’m just annoyed we don’t still get the Golf. The beltline in the Taos is super high and feels like you’re in a bathtub compared to my GTI.
My only other complaint is that I still don’t know how to say the name of the damn car. Tah Ohs? Tay Oss? What is a Taos?
The “ao” is pronounced more or less like the “ou” in “mouth.” Taos, New Mexico, is the county seat of Taos County.
rhymes with mouse
Touse?
Here I was thinking it was another odd portmanteau like Tiguan. I guess that would make as much sense as an obscure town in a random state that I never think about
VW bullshit only becomes visible to the owner the day the warranty expires.
Indeed. It’s unfortunate that this seems like such a satisfyingly simple and competent little car because from what I’ve heard the Taos is anything but reliable.
My thoughts exactly. It looks and seems decent in this review, but I wouldn’t trust it at all reliability-wise. I’ll just putter on down to the Mazda dealership and get an ancient design CX-5.
On a loosely related note… the Taos is just one ‘c’ away from becoming ‘Tacos’.
Just sayin’…
Apparently I’m a strange mammal. I’ve never used Android Auto once in almost 2 years of owning my ioniq 5. I can change SiriusXM stations from the steering wheel button and the native nav is great and projects directions on the heads up so I don’t have to take my eyes off the road.
I’ve used Android Auto exactly once in the several years I’ve owned my Fusion. Didn’t see what the big fuss was all about. But then my phone’s not surgically attached to my hand, so I know I’m a strange one.