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#61 of 2207 Check out... by vwguild Jul 14, 2002 (8:02 am)
*AUTOWEEK* for July 15th for a review & 1st Drive.
#62 of 2207 VW Diesel by thor8 Jul 15, 2002 (2:15 pm)
I would not hesitate to buy the diesel version, those 550lbs/ft of torque coupled with those sweet European diesel engines are a deligth. A few months ago I had the opportunity to observe in person an ML400 cdi, at first I tought it was some kind of turbine experimental vehicle, the engine only made a soft whine type of noise, even at iddle, not that clackiting rattling can full of marbles sound typical of US diesels. Maybe most American still have in their memories the old smoky diesels of the 80's, but that is history, a new generation of common rail and pre-combustion chambers, ligth weigth, all aluminum, high rpm, along with many other improvements has emerged in Europe that rival gasoline engines in smoothness and acceleration plus the high torque and long life of a diesel, to the point that in some European countries diesel engines account for 40% of new sales, while diesel engines here remain the same old archaic, heavy weigth brute engine. Because of the deplorable diesel in this country we have to miss the opportunity to choose from one of those diesel engines, I say lets give the diesel clean up project to the snails and we may speed up things.
#63 of 2207 ML400 cdi? by rsholland Jul 15, 2002 (4:12 pm)
You mean ML270 CDI. That's the only diesel Mercedes offers for the ML, and it's only for overseas use.   Bob
#64 of 2207 ML 400 CDI by thor8 Jul 15, 2002 (7:07 pm)
Yes Mercedes make the 400CDI, I saw them while I was visiting the factory in Alabama. An encounter with the ML 499CDI. http://207.182.236.112/default.asp?id=1&ACT=5&content=8&mnu=1
#65 of 2207 thor8 by rsholland Jul 16, 2002 (7:29 am)
Interesting! This must be a new engine, as I have not heard of it before. Will it be available here in the USA?   Thanks for the link.   Bob
#66 of 2207 Touareg by agh15 Jul 22, 2002 (6:43 pm)
Any new info on the Touareg.
#67 of 2207 new info by carjunk Jul 25, 2002 (6:18 pm)
try autoweek.com, the july 9 issue. you can also get to it by reading the phaeton story and looking at the links displayed.
#68 of 2207 I think I saw... by robr2 Aug 07, 2002 (5:04 am)
...3 of them yesterday on a car carrier parked behind the commuter rail station we used yesterday.   There was a truckload of new VW's and 3 of them were wagon/SUV shaped vehicles completely wrapped in the shipping plastic except for the front and rear windows. You couldn't see a thing. I don't follow this topic - I know of this vehicle but it was odd to see them wrapped up like that.   Of course Boston is a huge import location for VW's so it doesn't suprise me to see them here. The port location is near my office so I like to go by there at times to see what's coming off the boat.
#69 of 2207 Car & Driver by pkradd Aug 16, 2002 (11:12 am)
The new issue (September?) has a positive review of the Touareg (other then the name - talk about manufacturer's arrogance!) as well as the Phaeton.
#70 of 2207 Audi Suv by agh15 Aug 26, 2002 (9:33 pm)
Their going to be an Audi suv based on the volkswagen touareg, if the is touareg going to be priced 35,000 to 50,000 and the porsche cayenne is priced from 60,000 to 90,000 thats not leaving any room for the audi suv.

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