On Friday morning I picked up my new Volkswagen Touareg at Jordan Motors.  In this snow, going from the rear-wheel-drive BMW to the AWD 4XTraction Touareg is like night and day...or maybe more like sliding vs driving.

It certainly is a gadgetmobile - with the navigation system, moisture sensitive wipers, air quality sensor for recycling vs refreshing air, a sensor to automatically run the compressor when the windows fog up, synchronized powered heated side mirrors, electronic parking assist on the front and back, a second full-color LCD for the driver dashboard, 11 forms of autostability control, etc etc etc.  And with black leather, wood trim and chrome accents, it's even more luxurious than the BMW was.

Take that old man winter!

Picture is not my Touareg...mine is covered in snow-grime already.