New 2023 Volkswagen Touareg range topped by £80,370 Touareg R

The caller Volkswagen Touareg has been priced astatine £67,640 successful the UK, with orders unfastened present for the German car maker’s fourth-generation flagship model. 

Arriving with a hefty plan overhaul, a importantly revised interior and updated integer technology, the caller Touareg launches 5 years aft the third-generation car archetypal went connected merchantability successful the UK. 

It remains a sibling exemplary to the Audi Q7 and Porsche Cayenne, alongside which it's produced astatine Volkswagen's Bratislava works successful Slovakia.

Three exemplary variants volition beryllium disposable astatine motorboat - Black Edition, Elegance and the range-topping, performance-led Touareg R - with a prime of 3.0-litre turbocharged petrol and diesel engines.

Standard instrumentality connected Elegance cars, priced from £68,810, includes 20in alloy wheels, heated beforehand seats, four-zone clime power and Volkswagen’s caller 15in Discover Pro Max infotainment system, with sat-nav and wireless smartphone mirroring.

The Touareg besides receives beforehand and rear panoramic sunroofs arsenic standard, and VW’s IQ Light headlamps. 

Black Edition models commencement from £67,640 and diagnostic a bespoke plan with achromatic exterior elements. These see 21in achromatic alloy wheels, tinted windows and achromatic helping mirrors. 

Other instrumentality includes a Light and Vision battalion with representation seats, aerial suspension, the firm’s Parking Assist Pro Package and 'Comfort' seats.  

Touareg R cars footwear disconnected from £80,370, though Volkswagen hasn’t afloat elaborate the model’s instrumentality database yet. It does, however, connection 455bhp from an electrified 3.0-litre petrol engine, which provides a 0-62mph clip of 5.1sec and an electronically constricted apical velocity of 155mph.

Among the changes to the exterior is simply a new-look beforehand grille that aims to supply greater accent to the ocular width of the Touareg. Models with the Elegance trim get a chrome-look optic. The aerial ducts successful the little conception of the beforehand bumper are besides larger than earlier and person an idiosyncratic plan determined by the trim level.

The facelifted model, previewed successful camouflaged signifier successful February, besides sports reworked headlights. Volkswagen's IQ Light HD matrix strategy with up to 19,216 micro-LEDs per portion is an option.

At the rear, the 2024-model-year Touareg receives a caller airy barroom crossed the tailgate arsenic good arsenic new-look tail-light graphics. It besides adopts an illuminated logo – a archetypal connected a Volkswagen exemplary sold successful Europe – successful operation with the IQ Light HD headlights. 

Additionally, determination are 4 caller instrumentality designs: Coventry successful 19in, Braga successful 20in, Napoli successful 21in and Leeds successful 21in.

Inside, the facelifted Touareg adopts the antecedently optional Innovision Cockpit arsenic standard. This includes 12.0in instrumentality and 15.0in infotainment integer displays.

Upgrades to the bundle and functionality bring much precocious HD representation information with lane-level sat-nav and a caller voice-control strategy based astir conversational commands. There's besides wireless mirroring of smartphones via Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.

Other changes centre astir the switchgear wrong the centre console and the USB-C ports, which person been upgraded from a charging capableness of 15W to 45W for faster recharging of physics devices. There's besides a caller ambient lighting effect and the doorway trims person been subtly altered.

Volkswagen has confirmed 5 drivetrains for the caller Touareg – each with an eight-speed torque-converter automatic gearbox and a 4Motion four-wheel thrust system.

Included are a turbocharged 3.0-litre V6 petrol motor with 335bhp and 2 turbocharged 3.0-litre diesel V6 engines with 227bhp and 282bhp.

Volkswagen has besides updated its existing 2 plug-in hybrid powertrains. These harvester the turbocharged 3.0-litre V6 petrol motor with a gearbox-mounted electrical centrifugal to supply 375bhp successful the modular Touareg eHybrid.

Both the modular eHybrid and much almighty R variant usage a artillery with an vigor capableness of 14.1kWh. Volkswagen is yet to corroborate their electric-only ranges.