Volkswagen Touareg 2024: big price cut confirmed for facelifted SUV

Volkswagen’s luxurious Touareg colossal SUV has had its ticket lopped in facelifted trace as the first batch of updated crossovers lands in Australian dealerships.

The highly-rated but barely sluggish-promoting third-generation Touareg became once priced from $89,240 sooner than on-avenue costs sooner than the update, but the 170kW V6 diesel nasty grade has been slashed to $86,790 sooner than on-avenue costs.

However it’s the increased-end 210kW Elegance and R-Line devices that contain reach in for the easiest ticket trade, with $8250 and $7550 lopped respectively for imprint unusual ticket aspects of $Ninety 9,990 and $109,990 sooner than costs.

At the head of the vary is a unusual mannequin – the 340kW dawdle-in hybrid petrol V6 Touareg R, which had already had its ticket confirmed at $129,990 sooner than on-avenue costs.

The repositioning of the Touareg sees its costs return extra or much less to the place they sat in the mid-2010s (adjusted for inflation).

When compared with its 2023 gross sales consequence of 921, the Touareg became once a noteworthy stronger vendor when it became once extra life like – in 2015, Volkswagen moved 2568 objects.

Weak inventory of the pre-facelift Touareg has been deeply discounted in contemporary months to clear it out sooner than the updated version touchdown in the community.

Volkswagen sources bid the circulation is designed in fragment to accumulate it simpler for present Tiguan possibilities to step as a lot as the considerably extra top fee, and six-cylinder, Touareg.

Earlier than the value trade, it became once a substantial $28,650 upgrade from a 5-seat Tiguan 162TSI R-Line midsize SUV to a foul V6 diesel Touareg – but the step is now $26,200.

Though the extra costly pre-facelift version did safe a bother target market with possibilities searching for an upmarket tourer, this target market became once now not thought to be astronomical enough to stay with the same pricing.

To boot to the principal ticket reduction, specification has additionally been beefed up for the Touareg with the appearance of its refined exterior and internal facelift.

Depraved devices ($86,790) now invent a beforehand-now not obligatory 15-bound touchscreen as customary, while wi-fi Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are added for the first time. Matrix LED headlights additionally change into customary-match alongside a 360-degree parking camera.

Carryover customary objects consist of heated leather seats, 19-bound wheels, twin-zone climate preserve watch over, a energy tailgate, blind diagram monitoring, adaptive cruise preserve watch over and lane preserving relieve.

The mid-tier Elegance ($Ninety 9,990) adds increased-grade leather with cooling and therapeutic massage tech for the entrance seats, 20-bound wheels, and air suspension.

The favored R-Line grade ($109,990) picks up a unlit styling package, 21-bound wheels, privateness glass, 48-volt active roll stabilisation, and brushed aluminium intelligent, to boot to four-wheel guidance.

Choosing the flagship R formulation you nab astronomical 22-bound wheels,, quad-zone climate preserve watch over, thermal evening vision camera, a panoramic sunroof, energy-adjustable guidance column, top fee Dynaudio audio, tender-end doors and every family and Form 2 charging cables for the dawdle-in hybrid gadget.

Under the skin, the Volkswagen Touareg shares the VW Community’s MLB platform with extra upmarket vehicles love the Audi Q7, Porsche Cayenne, Bentley Bentayga and even the Lamborghini Urus.

Chasing Autos is discovering out the entry-grade 2024 Touareg 170TDI and top-end 2024 Touareg R this week in facelifted trace, with experiences coming soon.