Countdown to the TDI-Panamericana Endurance Challenge: Rainer’s team approaches the starting line in Ushuaia
June 27, 2011. Rainer Zeitlow agrees: there’s nothing like getting out of the city for a little weekend drive. Compared to the grueling 16,000-mile TDI-Panamericana Endurance Challenge that lies ahead of them, this 1,300-mile leg of the journey before the journey must have felt like a Sunday drive to Rainer and his team.
They stopped along the way [...]
On the open road with Rainer Zietlow: a road report from the driver of the TDI-Panamericana Endurance Challenge
June 23, 2011.Extra-large fuel tank filled? Check. All-terrain tires properly inflated? Check. Snacks purchased? Check! Everything is coming together for the TDI-Panamericana Endurance Challenge, and driver extraordinaire Rainer Zietlow couldn’t be more excited to get behind the wheel of his Touareg TDI Clean Diesel.
Did somebody say “road trip”? VW announces the TDI-Panamericana Endurance Challenge
June 23, 2011.Remember the time you and your friends piled into a VW and drove across the country together? Well, this is sort of like that, only with 14 countries, dense jungles, arid deserts and frigid mountain passes, all being traversed in world record time.
What Happens in El Mirage, Stays in El Mirage
September 27, 2010.Matt Farah at TheSmokingTire.com recently took a 2010 Touareg TDI® clean diesel to El Mirage Dry Lakebed in the Mojave Desert to put it through its paces. The landscape in the video may look familiar, as El Mirage Lake is a popular filming location for music videos and TV shows. However Matt and his team [...]
TDI Academy: Clean Diesel vs. Gasoline
June 23, 2009.Kudos to technology and good ol’ creative thinking. Without you, we’d live in a world devoid of pairings like vanilla ice cream and chocolate chip cookie dough, or cell phones that allow us to access our email or browse the hardware store’s assortment of hammers. There are countless such examples of matches painfully obvious with the benefit of hindsight, but on the flip side are marriages that will be forever puzzling. That’s especially true with words. In fact, until recently the words “clean” and “diesel” were not normally paired together. That changed with the debut of a new generation of so-called oil burners, including Volkswagen’s Jetta TDI, Jetta SportWagen TDI, and Touareg 2 TDI.
VW Touareg TDI arrives with $1,150 tax credit.
May 19, 2009.Buyers eligible for a $1,150 Federal Income Tax Credit*
HERNDON, VA — Volkswagen of America, Inc. announced today the all-new Touareg TDI will be available in dealer showrooms in all 50 states this May. Purchasers of the 2009 Touareg TDI are eligible for a $1,150 Federal Income Tax Credit.* The Internal Revenue Service has issued a [...]
Tax credit for VW’s TDI Clean Diesels
February 17, 2009.Herndon, VA – As if the everyday savings at the pump weren’t enough, the IRS recently confirmed all three Volkswagen TDI Clean Diesel models qualify for the federal government’s Advanced Lean Burn Technology Motor Vehicle tax credit. Given out to the nation’s most efficient vehicles, the credit will be worth 1,300 dollars this coming tax season. Power. Efficiency. And one big honkin’ tax break. It’s what the people want.
Volkswagen Touareg TDI wins Dakar Rally
January 22, 2009.Herndon, VA – Sixteen days. 9,000+ kilometers, and mosquitoes the size of hummingbirds. The Dakar Rally has classically been known as one of, if not the singularly, most difficult racing challenges on the face of the planet. In a rally where 49 people have died in just 39 years of competition, simply making it to the finishing line in one piece remains a major accomplishment.