The otherwise high amount of comfort offered by the first-gen Touareg has been addressed and improved once the second generation hit the market, mostly thanks to a longer wheelbase. Four adults will travel in supreme comfort, but the rear seat can accommodate three grown-ups without a fuss, as long as you stick to a shorter trip. Build quality and reliability are solid, even better than what the first-generation Volkswagen Touareg has to offer. It goes without saying that the level of quality inside the cabin reaches premium values here and there, which means you can easily call the Touareg a jacked-up VW Phaeton for that matter. You won't hear a thing in the cabin on trips down the highway - unless you want to, of course - because wind and tire noise can't disturb those sitting in the well-soundproofed interior. With 580 liters of cargo space in the trunk, the VW Touareg dominates its segment as it sits above the likes of Toyota Land Cruiser, Audi Q7, and Land Rover Discovery. Other than that, this already-generous volume can be increased to 1,642 liters by folding down the rear seats. The Touareg also lacks a boot loading lip, which means big and heavy items can be loaded/unloaded easely; securing these objects can be done using a metal bar and the belts provided by Volkswagen. Furthermore, the tailgate can be electrically opened/closed, although the Touareg does not come in a seven-seat version. For the Touareg, VW offers an eight-inch color touchscreen display that allows front passengers to manage the infotainment system. The setup offers sat-nav - standard - plus a music hard drive, DAB radio, Bluetooth connectivity and a multi-device interface.
That said, we'll reserve our judgment of the regular springs until we have a chance to drive them. The handling isn't bad, either. Steering feel is good for a vehicle of this size, quick-enough off centre and fairly direct. The chunky all-terrain tyres fitted here muted surface feedback to a degree, and on road tyres, the Touareg should prove a few degrees more engaging again. As we drove them, though, backroad dynamics were good enough to have you nodding along, assisted by a smartly-calibrated ESC system that gently nips away on gravel rather than grabbing on the brakes. Divided highways are rare in Morocco - faded-edged sealed, and many unsealed, B-roads are the norm. But the rare stretch of high speed road outside Marrakesh showed the Touareg to be stable and quiet. As an ownership proposition, all detail will be forthcoming closer to the Touareg's Australian launch in autumn, though it seems likely the current servicing arrangement - annual, or 15,000 kilometres - will continue. The bigger question is whether Volkswagen will make their current limited-time five year warranty a permanent arrangement next year. We believe they should.
First drive reviews are rarely this detailed, but rare is a first drive so extensive as this. A thousand kilometres and half a week of constant driving allowed us to become as familiar with the German-spec Touareg as we would in a regular round of in-house testing. And what that's revealed is that the new Touareg is a pretty good effort - and a decent stab at entry-level luxury motoring, thanks to an upmarket cabin technology game and sharper looks inside and out. Fundamentally, the dynamics are similar to the current car, and upgraders will find the Touareg 3 pretty familiar to drive. Volkswagen have adjusted their volume expectations down about 15% for the new Touareg due to pricing increases, and that's smart. We'll leave our final determination until we drive the car on Australian roads, but the initial impression is that the Touareg provides an Audi experience at a substantial discount, spec-for-spec - and that's not a bad place to start. With a passion for cars and innovation in the industry, Tom and the Chasing Cars team are dedicated to producing Australia's best car reviews.
This approach clearly showed the difference between the two parts, but unfortunately placed the emphasis on the repetitive characters in each suggestion (the already-typed characters). But if your feature suggests popular queries that contain the user’s text anywhere in the query, the opposite approach is better — you want to highlight the user’s query. Scoped search should only be used on some websites, and even then, only if it can be implemented well. If your site scopes content, you’ll want to reflect that in the site’s search suggestions. Just like the other two parts, you’ll need to visually distinguish the scope from the rest of the suggestion. The text of these scoped suggestions was presented in a lighter gray color, and indented beneath the suggested query. This approach worked well because all three levels were linked. Beyond just completing a user’s query, the search suggestions dropdown can include links to other types of related content. Consider if this type of complex search-suggestion dropdown would be helpful for your users, or confusing overkill. If you do adopt this approach, your suggestion dropdown should be well organized and labeled. Users should be able to easily scan and understand all of the information presented. In particular, providing links to related products in the dropdown can be a good shortcut for those who know what they were looking for. However, we found that it was rare for participants in our study to select a specific item from the rich suggestions. Instead, most users preferred to see the full list of results, so they could browse and compare. If you decide to use rich search suggestions, use an adaptive approach to simplify the feature for mobile devices. On smaller devices, just offer simple text search suggestions. Prioritize scannability and ease of processing in your search suggestions. Remember that their primary purpose is to make it as easy as possible for your users to express their information need and to see helpful results.
In particular, my observations of aluminum versus steel vehicle construction have been known to clear a room. Yet I cannot resist on the occasion of the redesigned 2018 Honda Accord, an ordinary car made extraordinary thanks to clever body engineering and some of the world’s smartest steel. This is the 10th design generation of the Accord, which replaces the ninth after an abbreviated run of five model years. The previous Accord was certainly good enough against its sedan rivals, including the Toyota Camry and Nissan Altima. The new Accord seems built to test whether any family sedan can claw back market share from crossover and SUV-style vehicles. Can the 2018 Honda Accord Save the Family Sedan? Redesigned for 2018, Honda’s fast new four-door is nice to look at, fun to drive and bigger inside than its competitors. In the day-one scrum for the new Accord, the design team made two right calls: ditch the V6 engine option and completely redraft the unit-body with high-grade steels. These smaller, more power-dense engines allowed the designers to lower the hood and reduce front overhang.
