Skip to main content

Find of the Day: 10 Cylinders Firing

[See image gallery at www.vwvortex.com]

Christmas is fast approaching. Winter is starting to blanket the north with snow. Need to get out and do some shopping? Or pull a sleigh full of toys? Go over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house? For this week’s Find of the Day we give you the Twelve Joys Of This V10 Touareg.

12 Years of Driving
We hate to tell you, but 2017 is almost over. This 2006 Volkswagen Touareg has been on the road for a dozen years now. Judging by the photos, it’s been well taken care of. Unfortunately, the listing leaves out the mileage of this SUV. You’ll need to contact the seller for more info.

11 Inches Ground Clearance
Touaregs had an optional air suspension. This complex yet cool set up allowed the driver to raise and lower the truck with the flick of a switch. In its fully raised setting, the T’reg had 11 inches of ground clearance.

10 Cylinders Firing
The real draw here? The engine. Back before the should-not-be-mentioned-gate, VW stuffed the Touareg with a glorious V10 turbo diesel engine. With over 300 horsepower with 550+ pound feet of torque, this was a monster of an engine. And even with all that power, the truck returned around 20MPG.

7630612

9’s: Dressed To
Despite being 12 years old, the classic lines of the Gen1 Touareg don’t look old. The Colorado Red paint and buttery tan interior look quite classy. And all T’regs come with sumptuous leather seats, real alloy trim, and genuine wood in the dash. They really are dressed to the 9’s.

8 Inches Ground Clearance
On the air suspension standard setting, the Touareg had about 8 inches of ground clearance.

7.6 Seconds
When researching the V10 TDI, most sites stated a 0 – 60 time of 7.6 seconds. Nothing to sneeze at for a truck this size and weight.

6 Speed Transmission
All V10 TDIs came standard with a 6-speed Tiptronic transmission.

7630613

5 Passenger Seating
Enough room for the whole family.

4 Wheel Drive
With standard 4Motion, adjustable dampers, and traction control settings, this truck will get you through just about anything.

3 Ton Vehicle*
Touaregs weren’t light.

2 Valves per Cylinder
The V10 TDI featured VW’s ‘pumpe duse’ fuel injection system: each cylinder has its own fuel pump with one intake and one exhaust port.

1 Very Rare Truck
A starting price of $70,000 automatically made this trim level rare.

So if you’re looking for a luxurious stump puller that can cruise effortlessly over hill and dale, this Touareg V10 TDI may be just for you. Take a look at the ad on thesamba.com. It’s located in New York, and the seller is asking $16,900.

*As stated by Autoblog.com

The post Find of the Day: 10 Cylinders Firing appeared first on VWVortex.



from VWVortex http://ift.tt/2B3kT8y
via IFTTT
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

2018 Lamborghini Aventador S Roadster Review

“Supercars just don’t excite me anymore.” These words, spoken to me over a month ago by another journalist, friend, and (so-called) enthusiast were echoing in my head for far too long, but they’ve finally been drowned out. Drowned out by the wail of a naturally aspirated 6.5-liter V12 engine mounted in the middle of the new Lamborghini Aventador S Roadster. My friend’s point is that back in the good old days, there was a crop of supercars that captured the imagination with amazing style, sounds, performance, and more. Today, it seems like everything is capable of supercar performance, with large luxury sedans outdoing some of the best and most dedicated teams of car nuts, while former pillars of automotive excellence are suddenly pumping out family-friendly SUVs. Beyond that, another league of supercars, dubbed hypercars have cropped up with hybrid gas-electric powertrains that make magical things happen quickly, but at the cost of the acoustic drama, visual flair, and engag...
Post a Comment
Read more

Project SportWagen: Going Stage 2 with APR

    When we last left you, the humble little SportWagen was fresh from the development process with our friends at AWE Tuning, sporting a new downpipe, exhaust and intake, allowing things to breathe a bit easier.  The car sounded great, but there was no getting around the fact that our wagon was still quite, well, slow.   While we realize that nothing we do to the Golf SportWagen at this point will make it a race car, we still felt compelled to do something .  To put it bluntly, we had a fever, and the only cure was more power. Flash forward a few hours, and we found ourselves at Waterfest, staring down APR’s palatial spread and the numerous tuned vehicles surrounding it.  Earlier in the year, APR had hinted to us that their 1.8 TSI files would be quite impressive, and based on what they were able to do with the 2.0 TSI found in the new GTI and our time in their Golf R, we knew it’d be worth the wait.  So with this in mind, we lined our G...
Post a Comment
Read more

Project Golf SportWagen- Intro

I’ve never really been one for SUVs and crossovers.  The current offerings aren’t the body-on-frame, go-anywhere specialty tools I remember from my youth, and what they lack in capability, they also lack in on-road performance. The current crop isn’t terribly good at handling or being efficient, which in my opinion are major components of our ideal driving experience.  So when it comes to space or utility, I usually look for something of the wagon variety- and it seems that I’m not alone. We hit quite a few shows around the east coast each summer, and we see modified Jetta SportWagens at nearly every event. Even amongst common consumers, these cars are highly sought-after. They don’t depreciate much, making even early Mk 5 2.5 versions expensive in comparison to other Jettas or Golfs of the same vintage. This year, Volkswagen launched their latest SportWagen, which is now billed as a Golf.  In many ways, this latest SportWagen is the best yet and it has certai...
Post a Comment
Read more