Filed under: Performance, SUV, Europe, Volkswagen

Last instance we talked most the next-generation Volkswagen Touareg R it was to passage rumors that the high-performance SUV strength drop the automaker’s venerable 5.0-liter diesel V10 TDI engine in souvenir of a V8 organism powertrain. Car and Driver is advise the ball the another artefact with a inform that the incoming edition of the Toureg R module indeed ease be a diesel, though carrying over the V10 belike isn’t in the cards.

Instead, C/D reports that VW module be using its newborn 4.2-liter diesel V8 already acquirable in the dweller Touareg. For Touareg R duty, the lubricator burner module probable be tense up from its underway 340-horsepower production to 380, along with delivering sufficiency force to advise the SUV with slaphappy abandon. That’s more noesis than the V10 TDI produced in the older Touareg R at 350, and belike sufficiency for the newborn Touareg R to ready measure with another high-performance SUVs in the segment.

The large programme is that C/D claims the next-gen Touareg R module actually be acquirable for understanding in the U.S in 2012 as a 2013 model. The newborn 4.2-liter diesel V8 module ostensibly foregather underway U.S. emissions standards, at small when installed low the cowl of a Touareg R.

To date, the exclusive R help ever offered by VW in the States was the Golf-based R32. We’ve never had a effort at a Touareg R, though VW did intermittently delude a edition of the last-generation Touareg here with the aforementioned diesel V10 TDI as the R help in aggregation (also titled the R50), though adjusted for inferior noesis and harmful the action goodies.

[Source: Car and Driver]

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