On 2/12/05 11:30 AM, "Tom Sinclair" <neeemo@YAHOO.COM> wrote:

> I know I don't have an MBA, but did anyone expect
> people to buy a $100,000.00 Volkswagen? How about a
> $20,000 engine option for the Toureg? The V-10 TDI
> Toureg typifies VW's 1990's thinking that people will
> buy anything--presumably with a margin loan. I think
> if VW offered the Toureg with a 2.5TDI--either a
> hopped up five or a V6--people would have lined up
> around the block for a nearly 30mpg SUV for $35k.  The
> Phaeton? Defies any logic.

Strange but that V10 option when first offered was only something like 500
engines available.  They were gone the first day with most on the east coast
time zone with a few in central time zone.  West coast and mountain didn�t
get any out of the first batch offered.  VW offered them as excess to their
european needs.  After that they became a regular option.  The trick is that
the V10 is so big and heavy that it gets a new front end to hold it up.
Also a beefed up transmission.  The toureg was available with a smaller
diesel but there are states that have made it almost impossible to send new
diesels to them.   In europe there is  the R5 and the V6 diesel.

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