2020 Audi Q2 vs Volkswagen T-ROC

What's the difference?

If you want all the swish style of a European hatch, but love the idea of an SUV's ride height, you now have ample choice from Germany's 'big three' premium players.

First there was the Mercedes-Benz GLA (which is about to get a brand-new version), then there was this car, the Audi Q2, and finally, BMW's X2 joined the fray.

All are hatch-based, all have distinct looks, and all are relatively big-sellers. They're also very similar in dimensions and performance, so what should get you behind the wheel of the Q2 over the others? We took its latest iteration, the Edition #2 in top-spec 40 TFSI quattro guise, for a week to find out.

At long last, after years of waiting, and delay upon delay, Volkswagen’s T-Roc has made it to Australian shores.

It’s landed here to fill an increasingly large small-SUV-shaped gap underneath the brand’s popular Tiguan mid-sizer, but it’s been on sale since 2017 internationally, so is it too little, too late for VW to take on the small SUV competition in Australia?

We drove a fully specified T-Roc to find out what this Golf-based small SUV has to offer.