VW Touareg

VW Touareg is the big SUV for people who want a proper road-going Volkswagen with a premium cabin and enough height to feel insulated from the rest of traffic. By our assessment, its best trait is the way it mixes quiet long-distance comfort with a solid, heavy-feeling build and a genuinely upscale interior for the badge. The trade-off is obvious: it is large, thirsty compared with smaller crossovers, and not the sort of thing that feels happy in tight city parking or narrow streets. In practice the Touareg is about calm cruising, a tall driving position, and lots of standard car logic rather than rugged off-road drama. It sits below the most extravagant luxury SUVs, but above ordinary family crossovers in finish and presence. The VW Touareg suits buyers who want refinement and size without moving into showier territory, and it does not pretend to be a compact runabout.