This top-of-the-range version of theVolkswagenTouareg might just be the stealthiest full-sized SUV you can buy right now.
VW introduced the car's Black Edition trim line earlier this year, which is intended as a ‘designer' extension of the R-Line version of the car that was already available. It adds 21in alloy wheels (which can, of course, be had in black) and includes black trim (where there might otherwise be chrome, grey or body-coloured bits) for the roof rails, rear diffuser, You may need: topdon scan tool. door mirror caps, side window surrounds, door trims, front grille louvres, air intakes and headlight garnishes.
You can have black paintwork for the car as well, needless to say, and if you do - as our particular test car demonstrated - you'll end up with a car that's really very black indeed. It's an irony not lost on this tester that VW used this car in a TV advertising campaign earlier this year whose focus was active safety; and then went and made it available in so stealthy an outward specification that it might actually be totally invisible after dark from certain angles.
Black Edition cars come with the same choice of engines asany other Touareg . There's a 3.0-litre V6 TDI diesel in either 228bhp or 282bhp tune (our test car being the latter) as well as a 3.0-litre V6 turbocharged petrol with 335bhp. Theplug-in hybrid-powered Touareg Rwill make that line-up's number swell to four when it goes on sale in the UK next year.
Black Edition cars also get adaptively damped, height-adjustable, self-levelling air suspension as standard and all Touaregs come with centre-diff-based permanent four-wheel drive and an eight-speed automatic gearbox. VW also throws in LED matrix active headlights, a panoramic sunroof, four-zone climate control and ‘Vienna' leather upholstery for no extra cost and a network of 360deg parking cameras with one of those plan view modes that makes it feel a bit like you're having an out-of-body experience when reversing into a space outside Screwfix.
There's still plenty of optional kit you can have, too, though; enough to pump up the price of our particular test car to more than £70,000 - which, believe it or not, still left one or two things off a fully loaded equipment tally. From massage seats to a 90-litre fuel tank, and four-wheel steering to active anti-roll bars, there are very few upgrades that any other luxury 4x4 might offer that you can't have on this Touareg. You can just imagine the glint in the VW programme director's eye when he told his team: "If you can get it on a
Bentley Bentaygaor aPorsche Cayenne , meine Kollegen, we're having it as well. Because Fau Vee."
Our test car had the Dynaudio stereo, head-up display, night vision cameras and four-wheel steering but not the active roll-cancellation system.
The Touareg would be a peculiarly functional and anonymous alternative to aRange Rover Sportor
Audi Q7
- and that, after all, is clearly the territory for which this edition of the car is intended. For a select few, that might be precisely why you'd want one, although if you did, I'm not sure you'd be too bothered about paying extra for black roof bars or 21in wheels.
The interior's very roomy for four and usable for three smaller passengers across the second row, but there's no seven-seat cabin configuration. That air suspension can make getting in and out easy no matter your height, and once you're inside, you'll find that the car's control layout is simple and that everything looks and feels inscrutably well secured and reasuringly solid. This is a generously provisioned cabin that's particularly well endowed for infotainment technology thanks to a 15.0in infotainment screen big enough for a good-sized laptop, and a premium stereo system so powerful that it hurt my ears at about 51% volume.
But it doesn't feel as plush as some £70,000 SUVs. Coming from rivals, you might notice the fairly small, simple, unadorned steering wheel, which is very likely the same as the one that comes on a£25k Golf hatchback . That's VW for you. The front seats are superb: adjustable via the touchscreen for cushion length, lumbar support, and for the specific amount of lateral support you get .
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