- Touareg TDI tugs a 155-tonne Boeing 747
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It was a show of pure monstrous power at the runway, Dunsfold Aerodrome in the UK as a VW Touareg TDI equipped with a V10 engine tugged a Boeing 747 weighing at 155-tonnes. What’s more striking is that Volkswagen claimed to have made no changes to the production version of the car except for the fitment of the 4.56 axle ratio from the Touareg V8 model in place of the 3.27 gearing of the V10.
The car was fitted with a special towing adaptor to connect it to the jet’s undercarriage and weighed 7 tones at the event which included ballast of 4.3 tones to keep it from going off balance. The Touareg pulled the jet over 150m stretch seven times with and average speed if 5mph and even managed to bring the jet and itself to rest with the SUV’s standard brakes. So now we know what the V10 turbo diesel is capable of doing with it 553ft-lbs of torque and next time VW says powerful I am going to take their word for it!
- December 6, 2006 - 7:25 AM | Posted in - Volkswagen
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