Short-distance performance off road would be equal, but for long off-road drives, the electric side would have trouble recharging, engineers said.
The trip, a once-in-a-lifetime event for most who make it, includes treacherous off-road drives and several days of arduous trekking, and is believed to bring the traveler closer to the divine.
The problems, though, are evident an hour's off-road drive to the south, where thousands of new car tyres are stacked waiting for the lines of donkeys that plod the myriad smuggling routes.
I can be on some 500-mile off-road drive and discover something interesting at the bottom of a river, and that evening while I'm having a pleasant dinner I can be surfing the Web, finding an expert, getting in touch with that expert live and talking to him or her about what I'm seeing -- that to me is a good time.
In El Calafate, one can visit spectacular glaciers, go trekking or horseback riding on a sheep ranch, or drive off road in four-wheel-drive vehicles to enjoy breathtaking views of Mount Fitzroy, over 11,000 feet of sheer granite and ice.
While the companies say the Q7 and GL320 can be driven off road, that seems like going fishing in a tux.
They were convinced he had driven off road.
But it is still a hulking off-roader that drives like it means business.
A garbage bag, or "something," caused a Utah woman to veer off the road, drive through three yards, mailboxes, garbage cans and fences, then come to a halt halfway up a power pole.
Two off-road vehicles drove straight into crowds of shoppers before several explosions were detonated in the city of Urumqi.
Off-road we drove the Touareg in low range, mostly in second and first gears, and could nose right up to a nearly knee-high lip and then gently climb right up it.
