In its simplest form, Punch Buggy is a competitive game played by groups of people traveling by car. While at first this seems a simple premise, the highly competitive nature of the sport has introduced additional complexity. What is a Buggy? A Buggy is any VW Beetle of any vintage. Both hardtops and convertibles count. Agressive players may try to introduce other VWs into the game, such as Passats, Rabbits, microbuses and Jettas. These are not acceptable, and a call of "Buggy" when seeing cars of this type results in the loss of a point to the player. Additionally, highly modified Beetles, for example those that would be classified as dune buggies or sand rails, are not eligible and are subject to the same penalties. Are there situations in which certain Buggies are ineligible? 1. Quantities of more than one Buggy in a car dealer's lot. 3. Pictures and other representations of Buggies which are not in and of themselves an actual Buggy. As a family, we are pacifists and have modified the rules to suit. We play a version called "Beep" which follows the same rules but eliminates the aggressive punch to the shoulder.
Its posher sibling, Audi, had commandeered the village’s big house to “launch” its latest A6 and hadn’t known Volkswagen was in town. Mingling from Volkswagen to Audi was not encouraged: not enough cars, or something. There were plenty in the Volkswagen camp, one of those tastefully converted barns with adjoining farmyard which make handsome conference centres. They included the sporty up! GTI, the T-Roc, the Arteon lift-back, the plain-clothes Golf R (for rocket) and its more eco-sensitive counterpart, the electric Golf, good for a realistic 130 to 150 miles between charges. Electric cars give quiet, refined, immediate power. I had a brief shot in Jaguar’s £64,000 electric I-Pace a few days earlier. It is wonderful, the nicest car I’ve tried in ages. Audi’s e-Tron and the Mercedes EQC will no doubt be lovely. The issue, the snag, with electric is the mileage range before the battery needs charging and where to get the charge. A domestic three-pin socket will take all night to give around 70 miles of driving and you shouldn’t trail cables across pavements. A dedicated power point, either at home or office is faster, so you can set off with a full battery.
If you need a charge before you get back you must find a charging point. Half an hour, say, will get you going again but if there’s a queue you have a longer delay. A full charge for the e-Golf using a normal dedicated domestic wall box still takes eight hours. A quicker commercial 40kW unit can restore 80 per cent of its range in half an hour. The number of charging points is increasing. The battery range improves with each generation of car. At some stage they may match the range of a petrol car but they’ll never be as quick to refuel. Diesel fuel remains the long-distance champion. Which brings us to what we were told is “the pinnacle of Volkswagen’s capabilities”. The car is the new Touareg, the third generation of the de luxe, large all-roader, of which two million have been bought in 15 years. It shared its initial development with the Porsche Cayenne and the Audi Q7 and they are all built today in Bratislava. The Bentley Bentayga and the Lamborghini Urus use the same modular platform.
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