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The Advertiser
2 days ago
- Automotive
- The Advertiser
CarExpert Choice winner: Best Luxury Large SUV
The Volkswagen Touareg has been named Australia's best large luxury SUV in the inaugural 2025 CarExpert Choice Awards. It beat out the related Porsche Cayenne, as well as the BMW X5, both of which were announced as finalists. While Volkswagen isn't a luxury brand per se, it has produced luxury vehicles over the years – and the Touareg is assuredly one of them. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. It shares its platform with much more expensive SUVs across the Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini and Porsche brands, and yet it has a base price of under $90,000 before on-road costs. So while it may be more expensive than many large SUVs from mass-market brands, it's still a relative bargain. A recent update improved the Touareg's interior, which is attractively designed and rich with tech – you can even get Volkswagen's flagship SUV with night vision. Regardless of the variant, the Touareg offers a comfortable and refined driving experience. There's a choice of torquey six-cylinder turbo-diesel engines, as well as a 3.0-litre turbo-petrol plug-in hybrid system in the sporty R flagship. High-end hardware available includes auto-levelling air suspension, rear-wheel steering and active anti-roll stabilisation. You mightn't think to check out a Volkswagen dealership for a large luxury SUV, but you absolutely should. To see all the CarExpert Choice winners, click here. MORE: Explore the Volkswagen Touareg showroom Content originally sourced from: The Volkswagen Touareg has been named Australia's best large luxury SUV in the inaugural 2025 CarExpert Choice Awards. It beat out the related Porsche Cayenne, as well as the BMW X5, both of which were announced as finalists. While Volkswagen isn't a luxury brand per se, it has produced luxury vehicles over the years – and the Touareg is assuredly one of them. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. It shares its platform with much more expensive SUVs across the Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini and Porsche brands, and yet it has a base price of under $90,000 before on-road costs. So while it may be more expensive than many large SUVs from mass-market brands, it's still a relative bargain. A recent update improved the Touareg's interior, which is attractively designed and rich with tech – you can even get Volkswagen's flagship SUV with night vision. Regardless of the variant, the Touareg offers a comfortable and refined driving experience. There's a choice of torquey six-cylinder turbo-diesel engines, as well as a 3.0-litre turbo-petrol plug-in hybrid system in the sporty R flagship. High-end hardware available includes auto-levelling air suspension, rear-wheel steering and active anti-roll stabilisation. You mightn't think to check out a Volkswagen dealership for a large luxury SUV, but you absolutely should. To see all the CarExpert Choice winners, click here. MORE: Explore the Volkswagen Touareg showroom Content originally sourced from: The Volkswagen Touareg has been named Australia's best large luxury SUV in the inaugural 2025 CarExpert Choice Awards. It beat out the related Porsche Cayenne, as well as the BMW X5, both of which were announced as finalists. While Volkswagen isn't a luxury brand per se, it has produced luxury vehicles over the years – and the Touareg is assuredly one of them. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. It shares its platform with much more expensive SUVs across the Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini and Porsche brands, and yet it has a base price of under $90,000 before on-road costs. So while it may be more expensive than many large SUVs from mass-market brands, it's still a relative bargain. A recent update improved the Touareg's interior, which is attractively designed and rich with tech – you can even get Volkswagen's flagship SUV with night vision. Regardless of the variant, the Touareg offers a comfortable and refined driving experience. There's a choice of torquey six-cylinder turbo-diesel engines, as well as a 3.0-litre turbo-petrol plug-in hybrid system in the sporty R flagship. High-end hardware available includes auto-levelling air suspension, rear-wheel steering and active anti-roll stabilisation. You mightn't think to check out a Volkswagen dealership for a large luxury SUV, but you absolutely should. To see all the CarExpert Choice winners, click here. MORE: Explore the Volkswagen Touareg showroom Content originally sourced from: The Volkswagen Touareg has been named Australia's best large luxury SUV in the inaugural 2025 CarExpert Choice Awards. It beat out the related Porsche Cayenne, as well as the BMW X5, both of which were announced as finalists. While Volkswagen isn't a luxury brand per se, it has produced luxury vehicles over the years – and the Touareg is assuredly one of them. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. It shares its platform with much more expensive SUVs across the Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini and Porsche brands, and yet it has a base price of under $90,000 before on-road costs. So while it may be more expensive than many large SUVs from mass-market brands, it's still a relative bargain. A recent update improved the Touareg's interior, which is attractively designed and rich with tech – you can even get Volkswagen's flagship SUV with night vision. Regardless of the variant, the Touareg offers a comfortable and refined driving experience. There's a choice of torquey six-cylinder turbo-diesel engines, as well as a 3.0-litre turbo-petrol plug-in hybrid system in the sporty R flagship. High-end hardware available includes auto-levelling air suspension, rear-wheel steering and active anti-roll stabilisation. You mightn't think to check out a Volkswagen dealership for a large luxury SUV, but you absolutely should. To see all the CarExpert Choice winners, click here. MORE: Explore the Volkswagen Touareg showroom Content originally sourced from:
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Miami Herald
2 days ago
- Miami Herald
‘Stunning display of incompetence' by cops led officer to get shot, OH suit says
An Ohio police officer is suing after he says he was shot by an armed suspect due to the 'incompetence' of other cops. The lawsuit was filed by 'John Doe' and 'Jane Doe' in Franklin County Common Pleas against five Whitehall police officers. McClatchy News reached out to the city of Whitehall for comment June 26 but did not immediately hear back. According to the lawsuit, Whitehall police officers showed a 'stunning display of incompetence' in an attempt to capture an armed suspect. On July 6, 2023, a man walked into a car dealership in Whitehall and stole a Porsche Cayenne at gunpoint, according to a civil complaint. The man had a handgun with an extended magazine and asked employees, 'Are you ready to die?' the complaint said. This information was relayed to police when they responded to the business, according to the lawsuit. Officers tracked the vehicle, which was located in Columbus. That's when a Whitehall officer contacted Columbus dispatch and notified them of the suspect, but failed to mention that the suspect was armed, the lawsuit said. 'So, I don't know if you're aware, there's a black Porsche Cayenne that was stolen from one of our lots. I guess somebody's speaking to an operator with the tracking company because they're locating it. They're tracking it in Columbus. My deputy chief says that he does not want any Columbus officers to go near that vehicle or to pursue this at all because we're going out there. So, I was just told to pass that along if you could tell them that,' the officer told the dispatcher, according to the lawsuit. Whitehall officers located the stolen vehicle, which then had at least two occupants in it, and tracked it to a bank, the lawsuit said. When the driver went inside the bank, officers set up a perimeter around the parking lot to block the vehicle from leaving once the driver returned, the complaint said. However, they failed to perform 'proper vehicle blocking or takedown procedures,' and they failed to 'follow proper tactics to block the vehicle,' which allowed the suspects to escape, the lawsuit said. According to WSYX, the suspects robbed the bank. Columbus officers began to assist in the pursuit after the bank called 911, but they were not notified by Whitehall police, the lawsuit said. That's when Columbus officer 'John Doe' located the suspects and followed the stolen vehicle, the lawsuit said. When the officer got out of his cruiser and ordered one of the suspects to stop, the suspect shot the officer, the complaint said. The officer was 'severely and permanently injured,' according to the lawsuit. The suspect who shot the officer died at the scene in a shootout with police, The Columbus Dispatch reported. Two other suspects who were in the vehicle took off before being caught and arrested, according to the outlet. The complaint said it was because of the 'breach of their duty of care' by Whitehall cops that officer John Doe was injured. The lawsuit is asking for over $25,000 in damages. Whitehall is a suburb of Columbus.
Spectator
3 days ago
- Spectator
The rise and rise of the ‘tantric sector'
For the past 25 years I have commuted to London from Otford, a delightful village outside Sevenoaks. I do this in adherence to Sutherland's Law – not the excellent 1970s BBC series featuring Iain Cuthbertson, but a rule of my own devising which states that you should always travel from the smallest airport or railway station possible. Recently, much of the station car-park was closed so a colossal pedestrian footbridge could be constructed 50 yards away; this replaced a pedestrian level crossing at the same spot, which lay along a footpath connecting one part of Otford to another. In 25 years, I have seen pedestrians using it on three occasions. Yet the construction of the bridge must have cost well over £1 million. This seemed insane. Being a fair-minded person, I wondered if the bridge had been constructed at the request of the locals. Nope. The Otford Village Voice website revealed – in a piece wittily headlined 'A Bridge Too Far' – that local opinion was against the bridge. The Otford Society opposed it in March 2017. 'At that hearing, adjudicators from Kent County Council supported Otford's concerns about safety and inconvenience and threw out Network Rail's appeal with a unanimous 5-0 verdict… yet Network Rail decided to appeal [again].' (Given the legal and bureaucratic costs involved in this process, and the final-salary pensions of everyone involved, we should now perhaps revise the bridge's cost upwards by another £1 million or so.) This despite the fact that no injury has been recorded on the level crossing since it opened in 1862. It's a textbook case of what happens when a large bureaucratic entity meets local knowledge. The bureaucracy is only interested in its own narrow remit (usually blame avoidance through slavish adherence to established procedure), whereas local opinion is alert to the second-order effects of the decision. What the locals spotted was that in many ways a bridge (with 64 sometimes icy steps) was more dangerous than a level crossing. It would also lead people to ditch the safe shortcut by instead walking down a dangerous road. The Otford Village Voice is a family publication, and so did not phrase it in this way, but they saw that the odds of someone being mown down by a speeding Milf in a Porsche Cayenne high on Whispering Angel while late for the prep-school pick-up (a demographic which comprises 30 per cent of all Sevenoaks road traffic) were higher than those of being hit by a train. But the bridge went ahead anyway. As Leon Trotsky wrote in The Revolution Betrayed (now there's a segue you weren't expecting): 'From the point of view of… society, the policy of the bureaucracy is striking in its contradictions and inconsistencies. But the same policy appears very consistent from the standpoint of strengthening the power of the new commanding stratum.' But the real scandal here is not the bridge, even though there are a thousand ways you could improve public safety more effectively with £1 million. It's that date: 2017. That's eight years ago. If you are going to make dumb decisions, at least do it quickly. The traditional description of the British economy usually divides it into two: the public sector and the private sector. I prefer a new classification. Alongside the public and private sectors there is now what I call the vast tantric sector – 'tantric' because its main motivation is to drag everything out while delaying consummation indefinitely. It's basically a form of white-collar welfare. Not everyone in HR, procurement, legal, finance or compliance or indeed management consultancy works in the tantric sector, but many do. Their effect is to slow down all useful activity, while occasionally making themselves seem indispensable by solving problems they themselves defined or created.
Car and Driver
20-06-2025
- Automotive
- Car and Driver
Tested: 2025 Porsche Cayenne GTS Brings the V-8 Thunder
A question pops into my wife's head about 30 minutes after she climbs into the 2025 Porsche Cayenne GTS: "Does this car make you want to drive faster?" (Oh, no. Here it comes.) But then she continues: "Because I would. I mean, just listen to that exhaust." (Wait, what?) Well, yeah, sometimes I look down at the speedo and find I'm going much faster than I intend to. But do you think that exhaust sound is a bit too much? "No, not at all," she replies. "It's got a good growl." Sound On She's right. The new Cayenne GTS has a most excellent growl. It starts when you fire up the car, and it really brings the thunder when you stand on the loud pedal. And unlike the last Cayenne GTS we tested, a 2021 Coupe, this vehicle wasn't equipped with the tuned exhaust that was optional on Coupe back then. No matter. A rorty exhaust is now standard on the 2025 GTS, and it's one reason why the base price has crept up. View Exterior Photos James Lipman | Car and Driver Matting the throttle now uncorks 86 decibels, as opposed to 82 decibels with the tuned pipes back in 2021. When you're cruising at 70 mph, it still settles into a very civilized 66-decibel hum, just like before. The extra noise at wide-open throttle just might have something to do with the tweaks to the V-8 engine. It now makes 493 horsepower and 486 pound-feet of torque, which is 40 horses and 29 pound-feet more than the previous version. Changes include a higher-pressure fuel-injection system, electronically controlled wastegates to speed up throttle response, mono-scroll turbos instead of twin-scroll units to increase resistance to higher exhaust temperatures, and a new variable-lift intake cam that improves high-rpm performance while still allowing for mid-rpm fuel economy. Highway fuel economy is up some 3 mpg to 22 mpg. Some of these changes are shared with the new V-8 Cayenne S, but the GTS has been calibrated to run more boost. There are also quicker gearchanges in Sport and Sport Plus modes. View Interior Photos James Lipman | Car and Driver Faster Acting All of this amounts to superior acceleration times. The new GTS gets to 60 mph in 3.5 seconds, continues on to 100 mph in 9.2 seconds, and completes the quarter-mile in 12.1 seconds at 112 mph. Compare that with the 2021 Cayenne GTS Coupe, which did 60 mph in 3.9 seconds, 100 mph in 10.2 seconds, and the quarter-mile in 12.5 seconds at 110 mph. This is despite that the new model is heavier, measuring 5145 pounds to the old Coupe's 5014 pounds. HIGHS: V-8 thunder, composed ride, grippy handling and braking. It doesn't end there. All new Cayennes use a larger tire diameter than before, 31 inches instead of the prior model's 30 inches. The new rubber essentially rolls over cracks that the last car seemed to fall into, although an extra inch isn't that significant. The GTS certainly does ride more smoothly than you'd expect, even in Sport mode. Credit also goes to the change to two-valve adaptive dampers, with separate control of compression and rebound, and two-chamber air springs, which are set to make the GTS ride 0.4 inch lower. Our car was also fitted with the Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control's active anti-roll bars ($3580) and rear-axle steering ($1280). View Exterior Photos James Lipman | Car and Driver As before, the tires are Pirelli P Zero Corsa PZC4 (sized in 285/40 front and 315/35 at the rear to fit our new test car's 22-inch wheels instead of the previous gen's 21-inchers). The GTS's front end also has an additional 0.6 degree of negative camber compared with other Cayennes, thanks to the adoption of upper pivot bearings from the Cayenne Turbo GT. The result: a directness and a degree of control that are unmatched yet don't stray into the realm of hyperactivity. The chassis takes a balanced set through corners and holds the line resolutely. On the limit at the skidpad, it grips just a wee bit better than the previous model, 1.01 to 1.00 g's, despite being 131 pounds heavier. With larger brake rotors, particularly in front—16.1 inches versus of the 2021 model's 15.4 inches—the GTS sees improved brake performance as well. The iron rotors hauled our Cayenne down from 70 mph in just 144 feet, versus 153 feet for the previous model. The difference is even more dramatic in stops from 100 mph: 294 feet for the new version versus 313 for the old one. And this is with zero drama, zero brake fade. LOWS: Wonky start-stop tuning, no quiet mode for early-morning starts. One thing we didn't like as much revealed itself at low speeds around town. Just puttering around in Normal mode, the auto start-stop system was too eager to shut down the engine, even when in a rolling stop. Sport mode is an easy remedy because it disables start-stop, but we don't mind this feature if it's done well. Porsche clearly has some work to do here. View Interior Photos James Lipman | Car and Driver Money Matters Inside, our Cayenne GTS was thoughtfully appointed yet didn't go overboard with Porsche's options list. The most extravagant addition here is the color-matched interior, which was $2980 for Carmine Red accents that match the exterior. The $2450 Premium package is a grouping of essentials that you probably want anyway: a panoramic sunroof, adaptive cruise control with lane-keeping assist, heated rear seats. Finally, for $1720, there are the utterly fantastic adaptive 18-way power sport seats (with memory, thank goodness). That's it for the interior bits, unless you want to include the $580 thermally and noise-reducing front glass or the ubiquitous $1100 Sport Chrono package, which brings along a push-to-pass button, Sport Plus mode (for the most aggressive launch-control starts), and an intermediate Sport setting for the stability control. View Interior Photos James Lipman | Car and Driver All of this made our test car amount to $145,185, which isn't crazy when you consider that our 2021 GTS Coupe stickered for $142,171. Sure, at $126,895, the base price is higher than before, but many of the items on the 2021 options list are now included because, well, everyone bought them. These include a Bose surround-sound stereo, a surround-view camera system, lane-change assist, keyless entry, soft-close doors, wireless phone charging, and auto-dimming mirrors, features amounting to $6180 worth of now-standard equipment. Heated front seats, which previously came in a front/rear package for $1060, are also now included. And let's not forget the tuned pipes of the Sport exhaust, newly standard as well. Porsche has made it clear which non-GT-spec Cayenne is the driver's model. It's the one with the extra oomph, the slightly lower ride height. The one with the bigger brakes and tweaks that give it a little more grip. The one that'll make your passengers take notice of the glorious exhaust note. And it's all in the name. The 2025 Porsche Cayenne GTS essentially means Get This Spec. View Exterior Photos James Lipman | Car and Driver VERDICT: GTS stands for Get This Spec. Specifications Specifications 2025 Porsche Cayenne GTS Vehicle Type: front-engine, all-wheel-drive, 5-passenger, 4-door wagon PRICE Base/As Tested: $126,895/$145,185 Options: Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control, $3580; GTS Interior package in Carmine Red, $2980; Premium package (panoramic sunroof, adaptive cruise control with lane-keeping assist, heated rear seats), $2450; adaptive 18-way sport seats with memory, $1720; 22-inch Turbo Design wheels, $1630; Carmine Red paint, $1430; rear-axle steering, $1280; Sport Chrono package, $1100; black-painted brake calipers, $910; ultra-high-performance tires, $630; thermally and noise-insulated front glass, $580 ENGINE twin-turbocharged and intercooled DOHC 32-valve V-8, aluminum block and heads, direct fuel injection Displacement: 244 in3, 3995 cm3 Power: 493 hp @ 6000 rpm Torque: 486 lb-ft @ 2100 rpm TRANSMISSION 8-speed automatic CHASSIS Suspension, F/R: multilink/multilink Brakes, F/R: 16.1-in vented disc/14.4-in vented disc Tires: Pirelli P Zero Corsa PZC4 F: 285/40ZR-22 (110Y) NC0 R: 315/35ZR-22 (111Y) NC0 DIMENSIONS Wheelbase: 114.0 in Length: 194.1 in Width: 78.6 in Height: 65.9 in Cargo Volume, Behind F/R: 60/26 ft3 Curb Weight: 5145 lb C/D TEST RESULTS 60 mph: 3.5 sec 100 mph: 9.2 sec 1/4-Mile: 12.1 sec @ 112 mph 130 mph: 17.3 sec Results above omit 1-ft rollout of 0.2 sec. Rolling Start, 5–60 mph: 4.8 sec Top Gear, 30–50 mph: 2.8 sec Top Gear, 50–70 mph: 3.4 sec Top Speed (mfr's est): 171 mph Braking, 70–0 mph: 144 ft Braking, 100–0 mph: 294 ft Roadholding, 300-ft Skidpad: 1.01 g C/D FUEL ECONOMY Observed: 18 mpg EPA FUEL ECONOMY Combined/City/Highway: 18/15/22 mpg C/D TESTING EXPLAINED Reviewed by Dan Edmunds Technical Editor Dan Edmunds was born into the world of automobiles, but not how you might think. His father was a retired racing driver who opened Autoresearch, a race-car-building shop, where Dan cut his teeth as a metal fabricator. Engineering school followed, then SCCA Showroom Stock racing, and that combination landed him suspension development jobs at two different automakers. His writing career began when he was picked up by (no relation) to build a testing department.
Vancouver Sun
17-06-2025
- Vancouver Sun
Canadian man caught trying to enter U.S. in stolen Porsche Cayenne
A Canadian citizen trying to enter the U.S. last week was turned over to the RCMP and the Canadian border agency after it was discovered he was driving a stolen vehicle. On Wednesday, June 11, the 39-year-old was making his way into the U.S. via the Port of Champlain border crossing in upstate New York and south of Montreal, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. During primary inspection, he told CBP officers he was bound for Plattsburgh, N.Y., about 30 minutes south, but 'inconsistencies in the driver's story' led to a more thorough inspection and screening of him and the 2023 Porsche Cayenne he was driving. Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Sunrise will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. In an email, New York State CBP public affairs officer Mike Niezgoda told National Post that agency privacy laws prevent him from discussing particulars, including the 'inconsistencies' that led to the accused's secondary inspection. 'CBP officers are highly skilled at discovering inconsistencies in travellers' statements, a skill taught at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center,' he wrote. 'When this occurs, CBP officers may proceed in requiring a secondary inspection/examination of a traveller.' CBP officers soon discovered the luxury SUV, which costs CAD$82,000 for the base trim or $194,800 for the fully-loaded hybrid model , had been reported stolen at an undisclosed location in Canada earlier that day. CBP contacted the RCMP to confirm the man's identity and that the vehicle had been stolen, 'a charge that is equivalent to a felony in the United States.' Yesterday (June 11), CBP officers at the Champlain, NY port of entry arrested a Canadian citizen who was driving a stolen 2023 Porshe Cayenne that had been reported—stolen earlier in the day. Learn More➡️ Under the Criminal Code of Canada , possession of stolen property over $5,000 is an indictable offence and may result in jail time if found guilty. After being processed, CBP handed the man and the Porsche over to the RCMP and the Canada Border Services Agency. National Post has contacted both Canadian agencies for more information. Niezgoda said anyone seeking to enter the U.S. needs to 'overcome ALL grounds for inadmissibility,' of which there are more than 60 ' divided into several major categories, including health-related, prior criminal convictions, security reasons, public charge, labor certification, illegal entrants and immigration violations, documentation requirements, and miscellaneous grounds.' Our website is the place for the latest breaking news, exclusive scoops, longreads and provocative commentary. Please bookmark and sign up for our daily newsletter, Posted, here .
