Went for a drive in a Toe-Rag today
Submitted: Friday, Oct 10, 2008 at 17:43
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Member - Nev (TAS)
Hi there,
been giving this guy at work a bit of curry over his extremely rich parents. (Most of it, no, all of it, is plain unadulterated jealousy on my part.) They had a magnificent V8 Lexus wagon which use to make me drool but got rid of it as too expensive to run from home to work. They bought a brand new VW V8 Touareg to replace it. After calling it a Toe-Rag etc for a few weeks he got his folks to let me drive it, (supervised of course).
Shyte do they go, like the showers of whatever. Very impressed but they were saying that the economy is not that crash hot and they are not yet sure if it is better than the Lexus. Mind you I don't think my driving effort helped the economy.
I didn't ask the price but looking at the web today I think they are in excess of $100G's
You would be too scared to go bush in it in case it got dirty or worse still begorrah it got a paint chip.
Very nice to drive though.
Rgds
Nev
Reply By: Geoff (Newcastle, NSW) - Friday, Oct 10, 2008 at 18:02
Friday, Oct 10, 2008 at 18:02
Not bad are they?
They guy I work with has one of the older TD5's. It goes quite
well too.
He's a member of club Touareg and goes "off-road" in it semi regularly.
Neil runs his on 100% Bio-Diesel and reckons it loves the stuff.
Some of the club runs they do are sponsored by VW and they quite often get a V10 Twin Turbo to play with.
Geoff
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Reply By: Member - Oldplodder (QLD) - Friday, Oct 10, 2008 at 18:26
Friday, Oct 10, 2008 at 18:26
Friend got one to test drive. He runs the VW magazine.
Got it bogged on Fraser is beach with the tide coming in.
Took a good 20 mins reading the manual and how to turn off the traction control to get it going. Another 10 mins and the
water would have been lapping the
wheels.
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Reply By: Patrol22 - Saturday, Oct 11, 2008 at 13:41
Saturday, Oct 11, 2008 at 13:41
Nice vehicle but the bits can be expensive...a mate recently broke the rear window (stone bounced back off his camper trailer) - cost....hope you are sitting down.....shade under $6K
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Reply By: oz doc - Saturday, Oct 11, 2008 at 13:58
Saturday, Oct 11, 2008 at 13:58
An acquaintance has bought one recently. Drove it brand spanking new up from
Perth - only to find the air conditioner wouldn't work. VW refused to have any of the mechanics in town touch it - so it had to be trucked back to
Perth for repairs. Not terribly convenient for the new owner. They were eventually given an interim vehicle but what a lot of poncing about.doc.
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