Test drive Volkswagen Touareg 2002 - 2007 SUV

Hostage of circumstances

It is difficult to imagine this SUV somewhere in a swamp near Smolensk. It is understandable who would think to drive for a cranberry by car worth 163? 000 dollars! Although the VW Touareg W12 Sport is capable of this, nevertheless, its main trump card is speed.
 
The person who has ever seen VW Touareg W12 in the Sport configuration, other Touareg is not interesting. They look against his background and they don’t look against his background. It feels like they were torn off like a sticky, leaving one trunk. Yes, they are solid, stately, also expensive, but, alas, boring. The same thing that is W12 Sport is not amenable to description. Of course, you can stupidly list the thresholds and expanders of the wheel arches, and the spoiler, and much more of what Touareg has acquired, under the hood of which 450 horses are raised (the specification alone occupies two sheets of small font), but it will still be conveyed by the overall picture difficult. It is necessary to see, hear and most importantly feel. To feel how, with the pressure of the button on the beard of the central console, a six -liter engine comes to life with a delay characteristic of such a volume. Put your palm on a powerful handle of a six -speed automatic box, transfer it to the stop to the SPORT position and press the accelerator pedal to the floor. And then feel how you are crushed by the back of the seat. It does not even crush - this is too delicately said. It presses, it presses. Moreover, this invisible force continues to crush when on the speedometer 60, 100 and even 200 km/h. Six hundred Nm of the torque of the engine is not released, and when the speedometer arrow approaches 250. And then the electronic detachment besieges this run, although the silicons are more than enough.
 
If you do not give the will to emotions, but simply look at this car from a practical point of view, it becomes incredibly sad. It’s sad, because you will have to ride it on the same roads as everyone else. What does it mean? And the fact that at least a third of his life in Russia this Touareg will stand out from the crowd exclusively with its formidable look. It will not allow the rules of the road or the habitat to be distinguished by temperament. To ruin this work of engineering on our roads, using its power at least half, just blasphemy. Another thing is if the owner can at least sometimes take the car to a promenade for a historical homeland. There is something that we do not have, the road.
 
Although, as already mentioned, the directions for this handsome man is not a problem. There are plenty of opportunities for overcoming them. There is a variable clearance, and a constant all -wheel drive, and electronic and compulsory blocking of the center differential, and forced blocking of inter -axial differentials, and systems that provide assistance in overcoming a cool rise or descent. All this is installed on the Touareg with a smaller engine. The main trump card W12 is the dynamics and once again the dynamics. And again it becomes sad and insulting. Not for yourself, for a power, where much is impossible for one reason or another.
 
However, what we can talk about if someone has a real opportunity to become the owner of such a car. Let it be prohibited, albeit impossible, even if stupid. But there are few such cars. And there will not be many of them.
 
VW Touareg W12 Sport
 
Body - Universal O number of seats - 5 o equipped mass, kg - 2665 o full weight, kg - 3080 o dimensions (length/width/height), mm: - 4754/1928/1726 O base, mm - 2855 O volume of trunk, l - 555-1570 o maximum speed, km/h - 250 o fuel consumption (mixed cycle), l/100 km - 15.9 o volume of the fuel tank, l - 100 o engine - W12; working volume, cm3 - 5998; Power, l. With. at MIN -1 - 451/6000; Twisting, NM at min -1 - 600/3000-3250 O transmission - automatic., 6 -speed O Help - Independent O Price, $ - 163,000.
 
Text: Oleg Kalaushin
 

Source: Magazine 5 wheel [05/2006]