Thursday, November 23, 2006

What can you do if you have a VW Touareg SUV?

Believed it or not?
This is what VW Touareg V10 TDI can do.

This test was done at London. This airplane (Model 747-200) weight is around 155 tonne plus additional 20 tonne of fuel, water, 500 people inside the plane. The airplane size is around 70m lenght, 19.4m height compare to the car size of 4.75m lenght and 1.7 height.
On the other hand, To make it possible the Touareg body weight is also need to be increased, it added about 4345kg. Where front wheels weight is 2755kg and the rear is 4275kg, total vehicle weight has became 7030kg.

Besides that, some minor changes or modification were done as below:
1) Tire's pressure change to 4.5bar.
2) Transmission: Lower gear ratio from 3.27 to 4.56
3) V10 TDI engine with max. torque of 750Nm which means it can push 200 tonne object based on engineering calculation.

The record is 8km/h and was travelled 150m.






Nice photos and what a good way to do advertising!

Here is a video to share with you on how powerful of this VW Touareg is, enjoys!
Touareg V10 on TOP GEAR SHOWs

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