For a brief while in the mid-2000s, you could get yourself a Volkswagen Touareg with a TDI V10 engine. While North America got the more mainstream version and not the upgraded R50 available ...

At the heart of the Touareg R50 beat’s Volkswagen’s 5.0-litre V10 TDI diesel engine, uprated from 313 Hp to 350 Hp at 3,500 rpm. Torque is also up an extra 100 Nm, to 850 Nm (627 lbs ft).

Family tree Volkswagen's Touareg R50 - the third Volkswagen model to be given the 'R' treatment - was launched at the 2007 Sydney Motor Show. The car's tweaked 5.0-litre V10 TDI engine produced ...

Volkswagen's luxurious 4x4 Touareg R50 oozes presence and power QUITE who the people are who felt that Volkswagen's V10 TDI Touareg was a little shy of attitude and engine is open to ...

At this point the power output of the R Touareg - likely to be called R50 to follow the naming convention ... 360 horsepower and 640 lb-ft out of the engine by reprogramming the ECU.; ...

It later augmented the engine to 345 hp and 627 lb-ft for the Touareg R50 – the only R-badged VW to date to pack diesel power. That didn’t make it the most powerful version of the big ...

As for the Touareg, this first generation was extremely well-engineered, which is why you still see them on the road. Given its complexity, it wasn't exactly bulletproof, but the R50 version shows ...

Yes, it's a diesel-powered SUV, but it's also about as courageous a proposition as any car made this century. While some of our Pills are at the mild peril end of the risk spectrum - an episode of ...

There is something unreal about such a functional beast as a Touareg carrying the coveted ‘R’ badge more usually found on a highest-performing Golf or Passat. Yet the R50 is only a fifth of a ...

(WCF ) - Volkswagen's United Kingdom branch has started selling the mighty Touareg R50 that features VW's famed V10 TDI engine. The 4x4 Touareg R50 with 4MOTION is said to be the swansong for ...