Horizontal Growth

The Touareg has always been a solid performer, the first and second generation are attractive enough, had practicality and space to boot. It is a very capable model, and the name was most probably the most interesting thing about it.

But things might have shifted with the new lighter third generation Touareg, gone is the middle of the road approach, now we bear witness to a bolder era of design were horizontal lines dominate. Just take a look at this grille, the amount of chrome lines are borderline overwhelming, they are even integrated in the Interactive LED matrix headlights, segmenting those 128 LEDs per headlight. The theme goes on as the vertical lines could be even seen on the bumper in some specs, this might be very heavy handed but interesting nonetheless. The rear is something else entirely it looks sleek and clean flanked by two delicately designed – in…