Fahrverg-Fukken…?
The commercials make the Touareg look smaller than it is the way they shoot it, so they may be under the impression it’s closer in size to a Liberty. I was quite surprised to learn it’s about the same size as an Explorer.
And I like how you are able to generalize about all Americans from one post by JuanitaTech saying it wasn’t big enough for her needs. Nice.
Yes, the commercials make it look smaller than the X5 <drool>. In fact, I thought Jeep Liberty when I saw it, too.
Either way, it only seats five and, as previously stated, that’s too small for my needs.
Gee, I’m sorry for generalising, Neurotik. Sure, that could have been phrased better. You sure seem to live up to your name, though.
Like some tiny fine print on the bottom of the screen for 3 seconds would dissuade them?
SUVs make money, and Porshe and VW need them to stay profitable.
As for the absence of disclaimers, the rant really should be with the VW of America lawyers who undoubtedly blessed the ad…or maybe the merketing group.
It’s likely that the marketing group and the lawyers fueded over whether their ads should include disclaimers. The marketing folks don’t like disclaimers for macho machines, such as “while we think the ‘rag is tough, don’ t really try this, because lacking special effects, it’s weenie and so are you, now minus 40,000 US dollars”.
Marketing Bastards! (although I’m, really from the camp of personal responsibility).
But maybe the rant is to VW U.S. marketing.
Okay, from my interpretation, the ad shows “You can’t do this with a regular car, but you can with our SUV.” That doesn’t seem like it’s saying “Hey, everybody, no matter what you drive, drive threw two feet of water because it’s cool!” Did you miss the first half of the comercial? It’s showing the viewer “It’s stupid to try this.”
Again, the water is not “running water,” it’s a standing puddle. There’s also one where a couple guys try to drive over a small snow embankment about two feet high and their small car gets stuck halfway threw. Again, the initial statement is “This is a really dumb thing to do.” Then they show that, hey look, our SUV can drive over a two foot snow embankment. There’s no fucking disclaimer needed for that! It’s your basic SUV/Big Truck commercial with a comical tone to start it off.
I remember another truck commercial that shows a truck driving home, and when it gets to the house, the driveway is blocked by a four foot wall of stone. What’s the truck do? It drives over it. Showing the vehicles capabilities is not “giving everyone the impression that it’s okay” to do this sort of shit. Besides, anyone who’s so swayed by such impressions probably deserve to ruin their new cars.
Next thing you know, you’re going to get pissed at Capri Sun for giving kids the impression that they can turn into liquid metal and skate if they drink it.
** Coldfire**, of course we think it’s small. After all, this is the land that is home to the Truckopotamus, as brought to you by both Ford and the perpetual winner of the Truckopotamus Contest : the Chevy Suburban. (click on “Dimensions” to get the overall specs on the thing.)
I didn’t include the Hummer for two reasons:
#1, I consider it more of a “novelty” vehicle than an SUV. Why? Maybe because the thing costs more than a HOUSE, even baseline price.
#2: Their stupid website requires FLASH just to get in.
El Elvis Rojo, what do you mean I won’t turn into liquid metal and skate well even if I drink CapriSun? Dammit. There goes my plans for the weekend. Thanks a lot.
Gotta agree with Coldfire. A Porsche SUV is just sacrilege.
And I blame America for that :mad:
Small saving grace though - the Cayenne does kick ass!!
Well, in reality, there should be nothing amazing about someone from the U.S. thinking the T-rag is small. It’s all relative to what’s on our roads. Hence, I would not find it amazing that someone from another country could see is as huge, relative to the cars typcially found there. You see it as huge? Not amazing.
What I find ‘amazing’ is that VW makes the thing look smaller than it is, and has the goofy low-budget-sounding commercials, making you believe it’s a 20-25,000 US dollar vehicle, when it is actually quite high end, and going for almost twice that.
Now that’s amazing.
How many clutches have been burned out by SUV owners trying to imitate the “plowing through snowbanks” you see in commercials? I love blizzards that demonstrate this marketing hype so well. Shame I don’t get blizzards where I am right now.
In what, exactly? A Land Rover will leave it at the first sign of non-tarmac surfaces, and a Mazda MX-5 will outrun it on a twisty road.
SUV’s are designed to be mediocre at all things, instead of good at one or two. The Cayenne is no exception, Porsche badge or no.
That V8 looks suspiciously like the same one used in the Audi S4.
Crank me 340 hp out of that turd and I’d consider talking my girlfriend into one.
Wewt! We score again. (Bolding mine.)
Is there anything we haven’t been blamed for? Fall of the dinosaurs maybe?
Coldie you ever see Denali?
You might have a heart attack lol.
If you did get blizzards, perhaps you would realize that bursting through snowbanks, and driving in deep snow really doesn’t hurt a clutch.
And Coldfire, you may find SUVs useless. For myself, they are the most useful, practical vehicle I can own.
Where I was we did get blizzards. Driving in snow is not bad. But what happens is that snowbanks happen. SUV driver thinks:
“I’ll plow through it! Just like I saw in the commercial!”
Then the SUV driver tries to plow through snowbank, not realising that this is a real snowbank made of frozen water, instead of the shaving foam and whipped cream thing they used in the commerical to make the “snowbank”
So the SUV gets hung up on the snowbank. So the SUV driver thinks:
“Ah! Well the POWER OF MY SUV will get me out of this one.”
Wherupson he guns the engine, the wheels spin, the SUV drifts to and fro, but does not get free. After some time clutch goes poof from all this abuse.
Doesn’t happen? In the blizzard of '96 I was helping my roommate dig out his car and saw no less than four SUVs in a 2.5 hour period try to plow through the snowbank on the street we were on (coming from a plowed street). They got hung up on the snowbank (which wasn’t all that big) One fried his clutch, other got pushed off with help from human hands.
Just my .02 -
I’ve been 4-wheeling for about 25 years. Been stuck in mud, rocks and snow.
Your clutch won’t be slipping (the reason they burn out) if your tires are spinning, which will be the case if you are hi-centered on a snow bank.
Clutch was probably already shot.
Even a mod could get laid in a Cayenne.
Said philster:
This is undoubtedly true. Moreover, a mod could drive a Cayenne to the pet store in inclement weather, get laid in the parking lot, and then trundle off to the emergency room in time to get Jerry back in the Habitrail before he suffocates.