Some people say I am a picky person.
I'm picky with the food I eat, picky about the vehicles I drive, picky abut the girls I used to date and picky about the clothes I wear, unless I am home alone and then I am not really picky which pair of underwear I lounge around in.
For some people any girl or guy at the bar will do, for others any pair of jeans will do or any vehicle will do as long as it gets them from A to B.
For others (the picky ones among us) the car has to be just right.
If you are at the bar or a party you are not going to say "Ah she looks all right. A big butt, black teeth and a tattoo of her ex-boyfriend on the side of her face, but that's fine, I'll settle for her."
No, you are going to look for someone that gets your juices flowing, a little like a nice vehicle would for a gear head. Yeah, you can appreciate she is of the opposite sex, but just like an old beaten down clunker you are not going to want to take her for a drive or even worse home to meet the parents.
So why should your vehicle be under less scrutiny? After all, you could end up with the vehicle for a much longer time.
When you close the door on a vehicle you want to hear a good thunk instead of a ting like a pop can. You want the seats to be firm yet comfortable, not so soft your butt sinks close to the floor and your knees end up near your ears. You also want instruments that are easy to read and use - intuitive I think is the word - and you don't want to spend lots of time trying to figure out where and what different things are while you are driving. For others it seems, driving is their perfect time to fiddle with gadgets and try to figure out what the little icon with the half tire on it is, so they keep pressing it harder and harder as they can't see the result of each push.
You want the vehicle to be quiet at rest and not keep nagging in your ear, and you want it to look good and be of a fine quality, so when you are driving in it your friends are not going to talk about it behind your back, or worse still, laugh and point at you while you are driving it.
That is why you need the Volkswagen Touareg.
It is like the girl across the bar that looks great, has a good posture, fine lines, soft features and an engine that goes like stink.
The Volkswagen Touareg is everything you will need in an SUV to ensure you have a long and lasting relationship.
The seats comfort you when you sit in them and the power options make sure your butt and back are as comfortable as you need them.
It is nice and quiet, but has a great sounding satellite radio, and is quiet enough at highway speeds that you can use the handsfree phone without raising your voice.
The engine is mated to an eight-speed automatic transmission with all wheel drive and the eight gears help this SUV get 32 mpg on the highway. The 280 horsepower is plenty to get the Touareg moving in a hurry.
The Touareg has been loaded with options and features too many to name here, but one you are sure to notice immediately is the huge panoramic roof. It stretches from above the driver's forehead to behind the rear seat passengers' heads and provides a fantastic view of everything outside, and lets tons more light into the Touareg.
The rear seat passengers get more room than some front seat passengers in other vehicles with seats that slide - moving forward and back about eight inches - and they also recline.
Everything about the Volkswagen Touareg tells you that the life-size face tattoo of ex-boyfriend Johnny - even if it turned out that Johnny and Joannie weren't forever - just wouldn't look right in this vehicle.
If you are a picky person like me, or if you just want an SUV you can take home to meet mom, get picky, get a Touareg.
VW Touareg
Vehicle type: 5 door SUV
Transmission 6-speed automatic
Engine: 3.6-litre V6
Horsepower: 280 @ 6,200
Torque: 265 @ 2,500
Mileage: 12.2 l/100 km 23 mpg City 8.8 l/100km 32 mph hwy
Price: $52,525
