2017 VW Touareg V6 TDI Wolfsburg Edition review

2017 VW Touareg V6 TDI Wolfsburg Edition review The namesake homage to Volkswagen’s hometown is essentially an appearance and equipment spruce, as applied to the aforementioned 180kW version. Priced at $85,490 in a current drive-away offer (until the end of March 2017), adding the Wolfsburg badge to its tailgate, nevertheless, adds $3500. So what does the Wolfsburg add? The conspicuous changes outside are the black 20-inch ‘Mallory’ style wheels (in lieu of regular ‘Masafi’ 20s) and choice of three colours in Pure White or a pair of cost optional ($1500) metallics in Reef Blue or our test car’s Canyon Grey, all of which are sport-tingled, in a sense, by more or less aping the performance Golf R range colours. Inside, the regular Comfort seats of the V6 TDI are reimagined in a rather fetching diamond-patterned Nappa leather using what its maker calls Tobacco stitching. The touchscreen-operated infotainment system, with its decent-sized 8.0-inch screen, has ample features – including a ‘hidden’ fold-down CD/DVD player in the glovebox, but it’s old hat against other European designs in terms of look, functionality and even sound quality. That a good many aspects of the cabin space feel a generation old – the gloss finish wood inlays, say – may deter some prospective buyers shopping for a cutting-edge vibe. Is it any surprise, then, that on road cruising is where the Touareg shines? And it does so quite brightly indeed. What was eye-opening, though, was a back-to-back...