VW Touareg TDI Sport

When the 2015 Volkswagen Touareg accustomed for our test, we didn’t accept time to analysis out any data on the 5 bench SUV. When we assuredly saw it was the TDI Sport model, we were surprised! We collection 26 afar after acumen the 3.0-liter V6 turbocharged engine beneath the awning was a diesel.
It’s so quiet, we anticipation it was the gas.

The canicule of the noisy, begrimed agent engines are gone. The age of apple-pie agent technology has accustomed and this 2015 VW Touareg TDI Sport is affidavit things accept changed.

What’s New 

The VW Touareg gets balmy administration changes and assets xenon headlights and LED taillights for 2015. It aswell receives a new apartment of accepted and accessible driver-assistance assurance features. These include: blind-spot and lane-keeping warnings and adaptive cruise ascendancy with forward-collision admonishing additional anchor intervention.

Features & Options 

The 2015 VW Touareg Sport with Technology trim ($52,245) comes accepted with the TDI agent engine. It aswell adds keyless access and ignition, a aeronautics arrangement with an 8-inch blush touchscreen, blind-spot monitoring, a rear-view camera, a bivouac hitch, and a hands-free adeptness liftgate.
You can accessible it by agreement your bottom beneath the rear bumper.

Total MSRP including destination: $53,155.
2015 VW Touareg liftgate

Interior Highlights 

The VW Touareg berth comes with all the aliment to accomplish it adequate with things like heated, leatherette basement and 8-speaker sound. The SUV seats 5 and has an air of simple affluence with above and adroitness throughout the cabin.

It gets new chrome and copse accents that accord it a added adequate feel than the approachable model.
VW Touareg Sport with Technology gets an 8-inch touchscreen with aeronautics that appearance aciculate graphics. It’s even simple to use – auspicious in this age of high-tech infotainment systems. If we can’t amount out how to change the radio station, it’s too complicated.

2015 VW Touareg Interior
2015 VW Touareg 4
2015 VW Touareg Rear

In the back, Touareg’s rear bench is adequate for taller cartage and is actual able for accustomed added cargo. The bench backs even recline and appear with 6.3 inches of fore/aft bench biking to accomplish things added adequate on best trips. Our cartage this weeked commented on the top basement position that accustomed them to calmly see out the ancillary windows.

We loaded some home adjustment items in the aback with the 60/40-split rear seatbacks stowed away. This accustomed added allowance for the big items we carried. With the seats up there was a acceptable 32.1 cubic feet.

Engine & Ammunition Mileage Specs 

The TDI models are powered by a turbocharged 3.0-liter agent V6 rated at 240 hp and 406 lb-ft of torque. An eight-speed automated manual and 4Motion all-wheel drive are standard.
The Touareg’s TDI V6 gets an absorbing EPA estimated 20/29 city/highway mpg and 23 combined.

Driving Dynamics 

We were afflicted from the get-go with the Touareg TDI, back we didn’t even apperceive it was the agent until we arrested the blueprint sheet. It was so quiet central the cabin.

VW Touareg TDI feels solid and abundant and gives the disciplinarian a activity of aplomb on the accessible road. When we ventured off the baffled aisle in the mountains, west of Denver, the SUV’s 4Motion all-wheel drive formed able-bodied admitting its abridgement of low-range gearing. A lot of buyers will not be demography their SUV for austere off-roading, but the Touareg has abundant arena approval so owners can use it for weekend amusement trips to the mountains or beach.

On clay and rougher roads, we were afflicted with Touareg’s adeptness to absorb up the bumps on such washboard paths.
2015 VW Touareg 5
2015 VW Touareg Sketch
2015 VW Touareg 2

Conclusion 

Thanks to its awfully acknowledging electro-mechanical adeptness steering, the VW Touareg ante top on the fun-to-drive meter, abnormally in the corners for an SUV. It aswell excels on the highway, area our cartage commented on the quiet berth and bland adequate ride.

The TDI agent V6 comes with affluence of torque and will get the SUV affective bound even traveling up a abrupt hill. It appearance both achievement and ammunition ability forth with above active ranges. From central the quiet cabin, a lot of humans will never apperceive there’s a agent engine beneath the hood, and it’s even quicker than a gasoline adeptness plant.

If you don’t charge a third row, Touareg will carriage 5 agilely and comfortably. With agent prices falling beneath that of gasoline, the TDI agent even becomes added adorable for consumers. The Sport with Technology offers even added tech and accepted appearance that abounding SUV buyers are searching for.