Touareg vs. Hummer

**TouaregTuff** · 18-08-2008, 11:47 PM

Like Chalk and Cheese I reckon

**Volvo Driver** · 22-08-2008, 10:12 AM

Originally Posted by balkanac

Toureg for me any day! Hummers are just extensions IMO. No style, crap interior, looks like a box on wheels. Tregs are just beautiful!!

I agree.

Originally Posted by gerhard

Balkanac, you can extend your any way you like, but I personally object to being referred to in that manner because I like the H3. Making comments like that on a forum does nothing for your image.

I don't own either, but I like both. The Toureg because of its class, and the H3 (Adventure pack version) because it can go where the Toureg won't.

I may buy the H3 but not before it is fitted with a V6 diesel, and I am still hesitating on buying the Toureg, because it won't handle the bush/offroading that I do, due to poor availability of off-road rubber, no snorkel, and no spare.

It's not too hard to get a snorkel made up by a fabrication company, and rims are easy to change.

If you want to go off-roading, buy a 40 series do heaps of work to it and take it out every weekend and drive a Golf during the week, would probably end up saving you money.

**gerhard** · 25-08-2008, 12:16 PM

Originally Posted by Volvo Driver

It's not too hard to get a snorkel made up by a fabrication company, and rims are easy to change.
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There are hundreds of Touareg owners on Club Touareg Forum, many of whom bemoan no snorkel, and not one of them has had one made up, either easily or with great difficulty. This would indicate that it's actually very hard to get a snorkel made up.

Originally Posted by Volvo Driver

If you want to go off-roading, buy a 40 series do heaps of work to it and take it out every weekend and drive a Golf during the week, would probably end up saving you money.

There's a tiny word you left out here - comfort - that's something you can never build into a 40 series......

I have solved my dilemna for the time being, and rather than buying the H3 Adventure Pack (with very good off-road credentials but crappy engine) or the Touareg, I have indeed purchased a nice little Golf to buzz around in through the week, and kept my trusty Jackaroo for weekend play with comfort retained - us old farts need that.....

**sonicmg** · 20-01-2009, 01:25 PM

I would buy a Touareg over a Hummer not based on size or power but mainly due to reliable, VW has a great reputation to produce good quality cars...in style and comfortable too. I think personally the Hummer is still a few years away from where VW are now. And also as if the Dakar has anything to prove Touaregs are up there now....with the powerhorses of the Landcrusiers/Prados/Pajeros/Defenders and Navaras.