{"id":1278,"date":"2020-04-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T04:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo6.aiwalls.com\/cars2news\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2019-03-31T04:37:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T04:37:36","slug":"2019-volkswagen-touareg-aint-afraid-of-no-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/?p=1278","title":{"rendered":"2019 Volkswagen Touareg Ain&#039;t Afraid Of No Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1100\" height=\"596\" src=\"\/wp-content\/picss\/0102\/tlhl231foog.jpg\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The new SUV faced some harsh environments that included lots of snow and ice, as well as muddy roads, and managed to get by them easily, or at least that&#8217;s what the automaker is trying to say in this latest teaser.<\/p>\n<p>As far as the actual vehicle goes, it remains hidden away under a thin layer of camouflage.<\/p>\n<p>The vinyl stickers cover its entire front and rear ends, but otherwise, it&#8217;s quite obvious that the 2019 Volkswagen Touareg has a thing or two in common with the Arteon. So, expect a similar large grille with horizontal bars and headlights, plus creases along the bonnet.<\/p>\n<p>The similarities continue inside too, where an Arteon-like dashboard is found, joined by different wood and aluminum trims, leather upholstery, ambient lighting and a dual-screen layout.<\/p>\n<p>Volkswagen has equipped the third generation Touareg with different driving modes, rear-wheel steering and other features that make it easier to drive in congested traffic, a peach on the highway, and also quite good once it leaves the comfort of the tarmac.<\/p>\n<p>Looking to challenge the likes of the BMW X5 and Mercedes-Benz GLE, the all-new Touareg will be unveiled on March 23, and go on sale in global markets later this year.<\/p>\n<h3>VIDEO<\/h3>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FFIb9ZGtBWs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new SUV faced some harsh environments that included lots of snow and ice, as well as muddy roads, and managed to get by them easily, or at least that&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[646,227,645,433,459],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}