[jrdavid68]

I'm biased, but would vote for a Touareg. We have 8000 miles on ours and have had no reliabilty issues. We also owned two Passats prior to this and had zero problems with those as well.

Another thing to consider is insurance. When I talked to my agent, I found out that insuring the Touareg was actually less than a Forerunner due to the fact that people that own Touaregs (or ML's) typically don't go off road.