When Volkswagen says powerful, we have decided to take their word for it. Their Touareg TDI has managed to pull a plane, that too , a Boeing 747 of all the available options. The icing on the cake is the fact that Volkswagen claim to have made no changes to the production car except for the fitment of the 4.56 axle ratio from the Touareg V8 model in place of the 3.27 gearing of the V10.

The car itself had to be weighed down with ballast so that it would not go off balance while pulling the aircraft. This meant that the already heavy car now weighed 7 tonnes (since 4.3 tonnes of ballast was added). The Touareg TDI then managed to pull the Boeing 747 which weighs 155 tonnes, across a runway at Dunsfold Aerodrome in the UK.

For the event, the Touareg pulled the jet over a 150m stretch seven times with an average speed of 5mph before bringing itself and the jet to rest on the SUV’s standard brakes.

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