New Passat

[davidc1]

what a cool looking car. Seen A few estates , nice bit of design.

[JackReacher]

I like them, shame they are diesel only even if one of them is quite quick! I see the Skoda Superb is coming with the 280bhp 2.0tsi engine and 4x4.

[jingars]

I have a 190 DSG R-Line estate on order as a company car. Recently had a 150 SE Business estate for a weekend demo and it seemed pretty quiet, comfortable and a pleasant place to be.

It is only once you look at a car that you realise just how many there are on the roads - it seems to me that of late every second car is a Passat

[va1o]

There do seem to be quite a few on the roads given its only come out very recently

I like them too, would quite like to try out the 240PS 4Motion version at some point!

[L500]

I've got the R line Estate on order too - but it has been on order since March. Latest is "towards the end of June" - seems the R line model is slow to coming to the UK...

[missing the VR6]

L500 said:

I've got the R line Estate on order too - but it has been on order since March. Latest is "towards the end of June" - seems the R line model is slow to coming to the UK...

Standard VW lead time is 3 months, so nothing out the ordinary. Some Passat's are currently taking 2-3 extra weeks for some reason.

[jonwm]

One of the reps at work had his SE business delivered last week, he's well chuffed, looks nice to be fair and is nicely specced

[AB]

Looking forward to seeing what the next CC looks like.

Not that I'd ever have another after the problems with this one.

I hope the new Passat is put together better!

[Glosphil]

Saw a Passat estate at a car show yesterday. Biturbo? List price - £35,600???

[jingars]

That's the base price. Playing with the VW website's configurator, if you press all of the buttons on a Passat BiTurbo Estate you can easily get to £47,000 including £11,000 of options. Bonkers.

[L500]

It's arrived! R-line spec in the tungsten silver looks great. So far, so good...

I was told that mine is one of the first R-lines in the UK, so they should be filtering through...

[L500]

It's arrived! R-line spec in the tungsten silver looks great. So far, so good...

I was told that mine is one of the first R-lines in the UK, so they should be filtering through...

[jingars]

Interested to read your thoughts on your new wheels, L500.

No date yet for my R-Line - but ordered two months after yours.

[AB]

Wow, just messed about on the configurator - £50k it's possible to spend on a Passat!

[va1o]

AB said:

Wow, just messed about on the configurator - £50k it's possible to spend on a Passat!

I would question the need for that though! The 2.0 BiTDI 240PS DSG 4Motion R-Line is quick and well enough equipped with Sat Nav, Adaptive Cruise Standard and Leather; retailing at a shade over £35k.

Will be a very tempting second hand buy in a couple of years time as I can imagine it will be cheaper than a Used Golf GTD of the same age

[l500]

jingars said:

Interested to read your thoughts on your new wheels, L500.

No date yet for my R-Line - but ordered two months after yours.

So far, so good Jingars. I've got the 190 engine, which is very comfortable, doesn't fell that quick, but when you look at the speedo, you're up to speed in good time. Space in the back is fantastic. Sat Nav (in mine at least) doesn't allow for post codes which is really annoying. Addition of the adaptive cruise control is nice also. I went for Tungsten Silver which also (IMHO) looks great in the R-Line spec.

[AB]

The Sat Nav doesn't allow you to enter a post code?!

It's like being back in 2002.

[anonymous-user]

AB said:

The Sat Nav doesn't allow you to enter a post code?!

It's like being back in 2002.

You can, you just need to know how to use it.

Tap 'New destination' -> tap the 'city/town' -> tap on bottom left where it says 'PSCD' or 'Pstcd' or something like that... it will then bring up a number pad (as continental postcodes are generally only numbers), tap the 'ABC' on bottom left, enter the 2 letters, tap '123' enter number, tap 'ABC' again to put the last characters....

[L500]

andrewparker said:

You can, you just need to know how to use it.

Tap 'New destination' -> tap the 'city/town' -> tap on bottom left where it says 'PSCD' or 'Pstcd' or something like that... it will then bring up a number pad (as continental postcodes are generally only numbers), tap the 'ABC' on bottom left, enter the 2 letters, tap '123' enter number, tap 'ABC' again to put the last characters....

This is further than I have got to date, so thanks for this, however I have literally just followed your instructions and I can't quite finish the postcode. The button is "Pstcd", and you can enter the first 4 characters (i.e. GU52) but it won't allow for the next digit to be entered... Am I doing it wrong!?

[340600]

L500 said:

andrewparker said:

You can, you just need to know how to use it.

Tap 'New destination' -> tap the 'city/town' -> tap on bottom left where it says 'PSCD' or 'Pstcd' or something like that... it will then bring up a number pad (as continental postcodes are generally only numbers), tap the 'ABC' on bottom left, enter the 2 letters, tap '123' enter number, tap 'ABC' again to put the last characters....

This is further than I have got to date, so thanks for this, however I have literally just followed your instructions and I can't quite finish the postcode. The button is "Pstcd", and you can enter the first 4 characters (i.e. GU52) but it won't allow for the next digit to be entered... Am I doing it wrong!?

Switch back to letters, this will then give you a space button, then back to numbers to finish the last part. Stupid way of doing it but there you go!