2022 VW Taos 1.5T SEL review by Mark Fulmer The New Kid in the VW SUV Family Mark Fulmer The Auto Channel The subcompact SUV world has a new kid from the folks at Volkswagen who know how to design and engineer small vehicles. First of all you begin with a 1.5-liter turbocharged inline-four and an eight-speed automatic (FWD) transmission which gets a combined 31 mpg.