What technical features are most important in the creation of stunt car sequences?
The same thing that’s important to car enthusiasts: raw horsepower. And frankly, after working with the Touareg, I wanted one in the worst way. It’s a really nice car inside and has got massive torque. It handles great too. Since it was all-wheel drive we had no worries about traction on the icy streets. The biggest challenge was trying to find ways to defeat all the traction control and steering stabilization. They spent millions of dollars to make sure that the car drives like it’s on rails and that’s hard to get an exciting stunt sequence out of. We put a great deal of effort into trying to figure out how to defeat all that stuff. Did you do that in the workshop or in the design of the stunt? Sometimes you just have to choreograph the stunt so that it’s possible with the car that you have. And sometimes you do try and get in there, with the help of the VW engineers, to deprogram the car, to find a way to turn off the ABS or the traction control. Mostly it’s traction control. But you
