Test drive Volkswagen Touareg 2002 - 2007 SUV

Spirits are favorable

Volkswagen Touareg V6 3.2
The first all -resistant Volkswagen has been produced since 2003.
Equipped with gasoline engines V6; 3.2 l/162 kW and V8; 4.2 l/228 kW, as well as turbodiesels - in a row five 2.5 l/128 kW and V10, 4.9 l/230 kW. Six -speed gearboxes - mechanical or automatic.
The price range in Russia: from 40 to 72 thousand euros, with additional equipment - up to 85 thousand euros. The cost of a test car is 54 thousand euros.
Tigel Must - The people covered the people
This is exactly what the African Tuarean nomads call themselves for a unique custom - this is the only people in the world whose men are obliged to always wear a bandage on their faces. And the point here is not in the scorching sun and the prickly wind of the Sahara, but in the ancient tradition of matriarchy. According to her, not a wife comes to her husband’s family, but rather. And in order to protect the family of a wife from spirits living in the head of a newcomer stranger, all exits - mouth, nose and ears should be tightly closed.
The African nomad is not used to the heat, but what does he have to do in the cold? To find out, we went on a small winter trip. By the way, our first acquaintance with the Volkswagen-Tuer took place last summer (ZR, 2003, No. 8).
Traffic cop in the bushes, horizon in crosses
We will start cloudy in the morning from Moscow to the east. Towards a nervously pulsating avalanche of lights. People go to work. What a blessing that we are in the other direction! A powerful tuareg flies forward, barely touching the ironed asphalt. Rays of blue xenon right through the predawn twilight and better than any flashing lights cleanse the left strip. Excellent sound insulation, a comfortable salon conceal a sensation of speed - pillars outside the window fly faster.
Only realizing that the ruby \u200b\u200barrow is already looking at half a second, I force myself to look at the border of small numbers on the speedometer. Wow! One and a half hundred! And I was sure that I barely exceeded the first. I enter the correction - I release the accelerator. In time. The inspector, hiding behind a stop, escorts a surprised look - so cool, black, tinted, and goes slowly like everyone else!
Moika in Vladimir: We still did not have such. No wonder - Tuares appeared in Russian dealers a little more than six months ago and at an average price of 60-80 thousand dollars is difficult to expect popular popularity.
Suzdal, Ivanovo, Kostroma - you only have a look at the horizon, you will definitely see shining or mossy bows with crosses. The whole history of Russia in these churches.
The fuel level pointer approached the red sector, and although the emergency residue lamp has not yet lit up, we stop at the first refueling. The column clicks tiredly, measuring the rise in the 95th. A cut -out is triggered on 76 liters. Leaving at the box office nearly a thousand, we touch. Now it is clear why this nomad is a capital -tier gas tank - even though the lion's share of 458 km passed on a suburban highway, the average consumption was 16.6 l/100 km.
However, there is an explanation for this. Despite the aluminum hood and plastic wings, the Tuareg is recordly heavy for its class and in the equipped mass of 2215 kg is close to large frame Americans. To disperse such a fraud from a traffic light or on overtaking, gasoline must be poured generously. Yes, and the aerodynamic resistance of the high, kurguza alternate is always great. Tuareg is no exception: the product of the resistance coefficient CC \u003d 0.41 on the cross section A \u003d 2.78 m2 is approximately twice as high as that of the middle sedan.
Yaroslavl, Rybinsk - on the odometer 630 km. We stop for an overnight stay, circling a little in search of a small modern Volga hotel. I highly recommend - 450 rubles. For a cozy single room with a TV and a refrigerator, plus 55 rubles. breakfast. It is a pity, the parking is unguarded, so I had to park in some ATP across the street: we have expensive, 30 rubles per night. Eh, uncle, you did not pay 150 rubles. In an hour in Sheremetyevo!
HELLO DEDUSHKA MOROZ!
In the morning, washing, photography on the dam of the Rybinsk reservoir - and further to the north, in Poshekhonya. The road has narrowed, there are few cars, overtaking is rare. Nevertheless, I notice that making them better. It is not God the news that discovery, but if someone burns in the stern, the subsequent acceleration in the Kik-Daw mode occurs with a tangible delay necessary to switch the six-speed Tibronika machine for several gears down. Here is the time to move the selector to the right, going into manual control mode, and add the lowered in advance. There is no dangers of unexpectedly resting at the speed limiter and hanging on overtaking - a smart machine will switch on its own if necessary.
The dynamics of the Tuareg with the most modest V-shaped six-volume of 3.2 liters and a capacity of 220 liters. With. It is good enough and in most cases will not disappoint the owner. Nevertheless, we note that instead of passport 9.9 s, at overclocking up to a hundred, a real car in our summer test showed almost two seconds more. However, out of hundreds of the machines we measured, only units confirmed the factory characteristics.
By the way, the engine of the Tuareg is not quite ordinary. Unlike typical V6, he has all the cylinders compactly made in a single block with a collapse angle of only 15 - the so -called VR6 configuration. The same power unit, only across, was installed on the charged modification of the R32 of the fourth golf.
Gluming in Cherepovets a fetid exhaust of the metallurgical plant, a two -zone climotron automatically moved to the recirculation mode - people, what are you breathing here? The temperature overboard fell to the record in this mileage -20C, the side glass began to freeze. The colleague dozing from behind tried to arrange Africa with the help of individual deflectors, but, having not achieved success, moved forward and for a long time plunged into experiments with an intuitive control of the climatic installation.
The road leads to the west, then turns south: Ustyuzhna, Red Hill, Bezhetsk - a mark of 1115 km. I remembered the cafe of Flamingo, whose menu began with the cost of broken dishes and ended with related goods, to which the hangover and condoms were classified here.
Aki dishes!
The road looks like an ice washing board. We have to pay for the exemplary behavior of the car on the asphalt - in pendants, of course, a fair part of the shocks gets in, but something comes to the body. A stabilization system grunted a couple of times in corners, braking the inner rear wheel. Someone will say: yes I do not need any electronics - here he slipped a barrel, there he launched a fan. I willingly believe and even sometimes I myself can portray something similar! But this is in the mood, and on an ordinary road, and with passengers - I perceive any sliding or skidding as an emergency. And then the car itself will correct you, hinting transparently: guy, you are close to the limit, be careful!
To the capital, it’s already a stone's throw, and therefore allow ourselves an hour to be so crazy in the snow. The all -terrain vehicle is easily plowing a 20 -centimeter nast, we are afraid to get deeper - if this heavyweight estates, only a tank can pull it out. Tuareg has a carrying body with two subframes on which independent pendants with double transverse levers are installed. For a surcharge (for V10 motor), the CDC (Continous Damping Control) air suspension is offered: it allows you to lift the body as much as 300 mm versus 195 with a spring suspension.
The 4xmotion transmission implements a constant all -wheel drive diagram with an automatic locking of the center differential. The overturned captivors of the off -road will appreciate the blocking of the rear inter -axial differential - it can be ordered additionally. Owners of snowmobiles-hydrocycles will delight the only drawn-by rings with a servo in the world.
Tver, Klin, Moscow - here we are at home. For three days, 1439 km with an average fuel consumption of 15.8 l/100 km. It seems, the African nomad feels good in the north. In any case, he doesn’t have to wrap him with a burden - the spirits are favorable and not at all against Russian snow.
Cities and names
In 1108, Prince Vladimir Monomakh built and named the fortress in the confluence of the Klyazma and Lybed rivers with his name. The heir Yuri Dolgoruky founded Moscow, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Dmitrov, Zvenigorod, Kostroma. His son Andrei Bogolyubsky transferred to Vladimir from Kyiv the capital of Ancient Russia. For a long time, the largest building of the city was the Assumption Cathedral of the XII century (in the photo). Even earlier, in 1010, Yaroslav the Wise laid the fortress on the Volga - this is how Yaroslavl arose. The first mention of the fish settlement - the present Rybinsk dates back to 1071. Two thousand years ago, on the site of the current Cherepovets, the Finno -Ugric tribe lived - a tribe on a fish grief. In the XVII century, the city unsuccessfully tried to win False Dmitry II (Tushino thief). And from Tver in the 15th century, Afanasy Nikitin went to open new lands.
SUMMARY
+ Spacious comfortable salon, clear reactions on the road, rich equipment, good geometric cross -country ability, a full -fledged transmission.
- High fuel consumption, susceptibility of suspension to coating defects, in the frost cool from behind, large mass, high price.
Yuri Nechetov
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Source: The magazine "Driving"