[Greg]

Well slap me with a kipper. There was I thinking that Touareg was quite an odd name for a car and then I find that it's not just Veedub that are at it...

Peugeot Touareg

 

[streetrover]

That's funny, I have a Rover T-reg

 

[davidcalgary]

Well slap me with a kipper.

:fishslap:

 

[RayCee]

For the VW Touarag, the competition keeps getting tougher again:

http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,12929-1550634,00.html

Be afraid, be very,very afraid. :toastie:

 

[patpending]

was I the only one who read this and thought that the present Touareg was a Porsche?

ie I mean the car that has the silhouette and aerodynamics of a church coupled with the acceleration and top speed of a fast Mercedes?

OK so that's the Cayenne..but that pepper-related name sounds like a new MINI to me...

pat

PS I know how Peugeot got the rights to the name. It has a 0 in the middle like 404, 205 et al....

 

[panther]

The Cayenne and the Touareg have been developed in a cooperation between Porsche and VW. So these cars have a lot in common, haven't they?

But do VW have to pay royalties to Peugeot for that name? Or wasn't that name protected by Peugeot in the early nineties?

 

[Greg]

It would seem silly to pay for the name which is oddball enough for any oddball american-indian-tribe name to be acceptable...

IM(H)O