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    OK, I've finally remembered how to get into photobucket, and so here are a few pics of my Touareg...

    It's an R5 (5 cyl in-line) 2.5l TDI. For a Touareg, it is the real base model - smallest motor (exactly 1/2 of the V10), and minimal options, but it's still plenty nice! Apart from towbar and parking sensors, the only option I got was the externally mounted spare wheel. This is a factory-special order, but I wouldn't have a serious long-distance cruising vehicle (let alone a 4x4) without a full-sized spare, and this is the only way to get one on a t-reg.

    My mods have been to add a DP chip for extra GO, and a phatbox. If you haven't come across a phatbox think of a car-mounted ipod, integrated into the car's system (it thinks it's a CD changer but with 5000 songs), and with voice-synthesized reading of song, album, artist, etc instead of having to peer at the tiny ipod screen as you go swerving off the road!
    Anyway, here are some photos taken on a couple of off-road days with the boys and girls from clubtouareg...







    ..Neil

    Audi Q5 2.0 TDI
    sold and missed: '05 Touareg R5TDI
    SWMBO: '08 Golf Pacific TDI DSG

  • #2
    dont think ive ever seen one with a spare on the back, looks like a totally different car. looks nice in white.

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    • #3
      Good to see!

      Nice to see some serious "getting your wheels dirty" action! Usually it's 'Cruisers, 'Rovers and Patrols in these type of shots

      It looks like the Touareg stacks up pretty well. (Make sure you wash all of the salt off the bottom )

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      • #4
        Great shot with the Sygna in the background
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        • #5
          You know if it wasn't for your location you could have almost said you were on Frazer Island .... very pretty! Oh and very pretty car too
          gtigrl want to go faster


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          • #6
            A good-looking Touareg.
            Like the pic with the Touaregs looking like they're havin' a party
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            • #7
              Having a bit more fun...

              Thanks for the comments everyone - I'll try to respond to all of you...

              joshyd-mk2gti - You're right - it looks different... It is also one serious bit of German engineering. Very solid and fully integrated in the central locking, dash display, etc. Having the spare on the back is 1000% better than the alternative - a space-saver (deflated) with a compressor and a can of goop!
              Having an external spare is still fairly rare - and almost all "special order" (4 months wait) from factory. Mine was number 18 in Oz with the spare. Having it also gives me an incredible extra storage space - where the other stuff normally lives under the floor of the boot!

              brackie - My last 10 4wds (since 1981) have been 2 x Suzukis, a subaru with lift kit, a Hilux then a LC toopie (company cars on Stradbroke Island), a pajero, a (mazda) ford raider, a Terios for the wife, and 2 x Patrol wagons. The "T" was ALWAYS going to get its wheels dirty. I did my research before buying it, and it stacks up pretty well! And at long last I have a comfy and thoroughlly enjoyable driving experience getting to and from the interesting off-road bits!

              melissa - thanks, it's a great spot to visit and photograph!

              gtigrl - Now you've got me dreaming again... Fraser was my "local" beach many years ago. I bought cars 1,2, & 3 in the list above for driving there when I lived in SE Qld, and had 4,5, & 6 when I lived on North Straddie! And yes it is a nice looking car

              rayray086 - they (we) were! That was a day out the back of Lithgow with the local ClubTouareg boys...

              Here are a couple more pix










              ..Neil
              Last edited by Moonan; 13-11-2006, 08:35 PM.
              ..Neil

              Audi Q5 2.0 TDI
              sold and missed: '05 Touareg R5TDI
              SWMBO: '08 Golf Pacific TDI DSG

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              • #8
                Welcome to the forum, good looking 4x4. Nice work on getting it dirty and getting the smallest engine. Full sized spare is a good idea

                In the group shot they look like overgrown golfs. They do look massive in the flesh though.

                I actually saw two yesterday at Campbelltown on trade plates racing each other throught Traffic. They were hauling too

                Nice to have you onboard, we are truly becoming a diverse online community
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                • #9
                  its great to see people using their vehicles as they were intended!!!
                  more power to you, 4x4's have been given a bad name by yuppies with fake tans and bleached hair (sorry if thats anyone here )
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                  • #10
                    November snow - Barrington Tops NSW

                    A country drive on Wednesday...


                    with some very confused locals...


                    Last edited by Moonan; 17-11-2006, 11:03 PM.
                    ..Neil

                    Audi Q5 2.0 TDI
                    sold and missed: '05 Touareg R5TDI
                    SWMBO: '08 Golf Pacific TDI DSG

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                    • #11
                      Great pics....I need a Touareg!!
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                      • #12
                        I love a dirty Touareg
                        - Ben

                        1961 Karmann Ghia Coupé - 1993 Golf Cabriolet - 2006 Golf Comfortline 1.9L TDI
                        2008 Jetta 2.0L FSI

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                        • #13
                          wow cool pics nice 2 c ppl take them off road.....would love a V10 one day lol
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                          • #14
                            For a different sort of "off-road" check out my post in the new Touareg section...

                            http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/newf...0736#post40736
                            ..Neil

                            Audi Q5 2.0 TDI
                            sold and missed: '05 Touareg R5TDI
                            SWMBO: '08 Golf Pacific TDI DSG

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                            • #15
                              i bow to people that buy 4x4s and actually using it for what it is made for, not an overpriced shopping trolley and a school bus.
                              congratulations on a new car
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