Renewed front and renewed rear
The largest SUV that Volkswagen supplies in Europe is getting a facelift. We are of course talking about the Volkswagen Touareg. The Touareg gets a new front, a new rear and also returns to the Netherlands.
The current generation of the Volkswagen Touareg has been running since 2018 and has just climbed off the cutting table in a refreshed form. The SUV has been discontinued in the Netherlands since 2020, but the facelift that the Touareg is undergoing is still relevant. The refreshed Volkswagen Touareg will be delivered in our country again. What is the refresh all about?
Quite what! Especially in the field of lighting, very little remains the same. The upper part of the headlight units remains in place, but gets a completely new interpretation complete with three L-shaped parts. The LED daytime running lights that used to be in a horizontal part directly below the headlights are disappearing in a sense. We no longer see five LED dots here. From now on, the LED daytime running lights consist of a horizontal strip that spans the entire width of the grille and is only optically interrupted by the Volkswagen logo. The grille itself now runs optically under the headlight units, although you will find mainly dense black plastic here. The shape of the grille is also different than before.
The rear of the Volkswagen Touareg also does not escape the dance of the optically connected light units. The two ‘separate’ rear lights are replaced by differently shaped ones with – just like the headlights – a light signature consisting of three L-shapes. The taillights taper towards the center and eventually merge into each other optically. Between the rear lights we find a red strip with an LED strip and an illuminated Volkswagen logo. Furthermore, Volkswagen brings new bumpers to both the R-Line and Elegance versions and Volkswagen’s largest SUV in Europe benefits from the arrival of new wheels.
The Touareg may be Volkswagen’s largest SUV in Europe, but elsewhere in the world the brand has even bigger guys on offer. For example, Volkswagen sells the Atlas in the United States, which is again called Teramont in China and of which a flattened ‘coupé version’ exists in both markets. The Atlas is on the cheaper MQB platform and, despite being larger than the Touareg, is positioned below that model.
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