National Geographic Adventure Awards the Volkswagen Touareg
National Geographic’s 2007 Adventurer of the Year Celebration has readily honored the Volkswagen Touareg 2 with the ‘Best of Adventure Gear’ award in the Desert category. The Touareg’s specific composition that made such a win possible includes its ability to deftly navigate side slopes, as well as its excellent computer-controlled descent attribute that does not entail the driver to manually operate the braking system while said feature is in use.
Clark Campbell, Volkswagen of America’s Motorsport Manager, is very pleased with the award: “We’re immensely proud that the Touareg 2 has received this accolade from National Geographic Adventure. Volkswagen’s commitment to making safe and well-engineered vehicles at an affordable operating cost for off road and on road adventurers is reflected in the Touareg 2’s performance. National Geographic Adventure features some of the most extreme travel and sporting events in the world. It’s exciting that the judging panel feels the Touareg 2 will enable their readers to pursue their extreme adventures.”
Steve Casimiro, National Geographic Adventure’s West Coast Editor, for the organization’s part is more than obliging to reiterate the winning attributes of the Touareg 2: “The roughest path to the trailhead is in the desert, and no stock vehicle is better engineered for loose and broken tracks than the Volkswagen Touareg 2.”
For those unfamiliar with the event, the National Geographic’s Adventurer of the Year Celebration is an annual affair that aims to reward amazing achievements in the world of adventure, as well as acknowledges and salutes the top new products in the market today that have made adventure sports safer and more gratifying.
All winners in the celebration were meticulously elected by the National Geographic Adventure’s reliable editors and the pre-selected Retail Advisory Board. The said advisory board, consisting of 44 of the top outdoor retailers of the United States, was tasked to evaluate the uniqueness of the competing products and report on the sought-after goods within the industry.
As it goes, the Volkswagen’s Touareg 2 together with the other winners of the event, will be given recognition in the December-January issue of National Geographic Adventure. The said publication is then slated to hit the newsstands on the 27th of November.