Touareg Gold Edition
Volkswagen has unveiled two new Touareg SUVs at the inaugural Qatar motor show. One is a rather cool road-going version of the Race Touareg 3 that’s just notched up a victory at the 2011 Dakar rally, and the other is an awful monster called the Touareg Gold Edition.
Underneath the skin it’s a genuine version of the latest Race Touareg 3, with a turbocharged 2.5-litre diesel engine, a trick four-wheel drive system and a super-stiff chassis. But VW has made some tweaks so it can be used on the road, including junking the 16in rally rubber for new BBS 18-inch alloys with a gold-effect look.
More extensive tweaks have been made to the interior, where everything bar the roll cage has been modified. VW’s designers call the straight-edged and all-grey colour scheme the ‘Stealth look’; the cabin is fitted with Nappa leather-covered Recaro buckets, and what isn’t also trimmed in leather is covered in matt
