Volkswagen Touareg 5.0 V10 TDI

As with my last Volkswagen review, their flagship W12 Phaeton saloon, I am not going to pretend that I own or run a Touareg either! However, to my mind there are not that many who do, and even fewer who are likely to write about it in these pages! Therefore hopefully you will find this review of interest from the standpoint of a driver (me!) who drives around 30,000 miles a year; half on business, half for pleasure. I love driving, and am fortunate enough to attend one or two events in a year where I get the chance to drive dozens of different cars. On a purely personal note, we drive to ... more

**This is not really a review of my own, it's just something I have seen which may be of use to any one looking at buying their own VW so please dont mump about me not being able to conment from my own experiences.** Sad as it may sound we are members of the caravan club and receive their mag each month which normally gets flicked through and then goes in the recycling. This month however something caught my eye which made me read on. They have carried out one of their tests with a standard VW Touareg towing a Boeing 747 weighing in at just sort of 170 tonnes. Now they did use the 5.0L verson ... more