Five awesome things (and one bad) about the Volkswagen Touareg 310TDI V8 diesel

It’s an automotive trick as old as time itself: if you want to make a car better, stick a V8 in it. And under the growing influence of downsizing, electrification and hybridisation, something utterly powerful, purely fossil-fuel powered, in that classic configuration of a bent-eight, is probably going to be something special. And we reckon the Volkswagen Touareg 310TDI is exactly that. 1. It’s immensely powerful