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Article: MAKING- AND TAKING-THE GRADE; Volkswagen updates its Touareg.(product information of Volkswagen AG)
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- AutoWeek
- Article date:
- June 18, 2007
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Byline: MAC MORRISON
As reminders go, a Spanish precipice serves nicely on a clear spring afternoon. What lies below remains invisible as the Touareg perches at a idiculous angle before cresting the peak, a nearly vertical plunge over tire-busting rocks and crevices emerging through the windshield.
What the hell are we doing here? This is a luxury sport/ute, not a Jeep Wrangler.
We remember halfway down the Montserrat trail. The Volkswagen ute impressed us as an honest off-roader when it was launched four years ago, but that seems like decades ago-especially in a vehicle segment that spawns so many newcomers so quickly you're forced to adopt an ...