Can you believe this????

[eclipse]

I found this last night,

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://pictures.topspeed.com/IMG/crop-380x271/vw_1-4_ew.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/volkswagen-touareg-vs-boeing-747-ar16546.html&h=273&w=382&sz=23&hl=en&start=62&tbnid=zRiyWaV6voNnuM:&tbnh=88&tbnw=123&prev=/images%3Fq%3D4x4%2Bmodifications%26start%3D60%26gb v%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
I find it so hard to believe, not because it pulled the aircraft but because of the weight of the vehicle 8O

I also like how it said at the begining of the write up "The vehicle was a standard production Touareg " NO IT WASNT!!! it was made from various different vehicles :evil:

how can they call this a fair test :?: :roll:

[bigjim]

probably got it rolling before the car took over, when i worked for the railways we had special bars to move 30 ton carragies when moving 5 or 6 blokes could keep it rolling as long you dint find a stone on the track or you had a slight incline.

[jace]

i got one of these out on test when they first came out so quiet inside u wouldnt know it was running i was always clicking starter!

[Terranosaurus]

Quite beleivable, you can push you're truck can't you? Geoff Capes and othe WSM contenders are always pulling Artic's etc. With the lowered diff and a torque converter on the auto, the toque at the wheels would be amazing. As for the weight in the vehicle. The compressor for the air suspension might not last long but it obviously coped with the weight, they only needed it for traction, all that toque versus all that inertia was a good recipe for wheel spin without it.

Wasn't there a link posted months ago of someone doing something similar with a T2 or Mav?

[mr-gadget]

some of the tugs used in airports run on batteries so the weight of the batteries give the tug grip. not really surprised the car can pull the aircraft. I used to know a farmer who owned a dihatsu fourtak (sorry not sure how it is spelt) and he used it to pull a 2 furrow run around plough, then his set of discs, and then drag harrows, then the seed drill, only ever known it to break down once, power steering pump failed in the middle of the field. dihatsu mechanic was shocked when he saw it with plough in tow... :lol:

[eclipse]

I can beleive it pulled it as a man in the states pulled a 757 but I couldnt believe how much weight the standard suspension was able to handle and I couldnt believe that they said it was standard when it clearly wasnt.

Mind I wouldnt like to try this with mine :lol:

[drivewasher]

I once pulled a 17 ton truck fully loaded out of a drainage ditch in a dirt lane I hooked a chain to truck rear axle and as I had no towbar on a swb landrover wraped the chain with a D link around my back spring hanger.
Selected low box 1st gear and slowly pulled truck up the bank to tha amazement of the farm equipment supply driver who was about to walk to phone box to call for a 4wd tractor.
The low ratio box is very powerfull

By the way the front beam axle was on the ground!