Passat alltrack
Discussion
Hi Guys.
I currently own a 09 tiguan but with my wife now expecting our second baby we have just bought a 2014 passat alltrack. Main reasons huge boot and the wife likes the reassurance of the 4 motion.
I know little to nothing about the cars apart from its bigger than the tiguan. Can anyone give me there opinion who have owned one as I pick ours up in a week.The passat is the 140 bhp diesel manual.
Cheers
Adam
I currently own a 09 tiguan but with my wife now expecting our second baby we have just bought a 2014 passat alltrack. Main reasons huge boot and the wife likes the reassurance of the 4 motion.
I know little to nothing about the cars apart from its bigger than the tiguan. Can anyone give me there opinion who have owned one as I pick ours up in a week.The passat is the 140 bhp diesel manual.
Cheers
Adam
I had mine, a September 2014 car from new and covered 6k in it.
I really enjoyed it. The seats were HUGE, large base and good wide back, you tend to sit quite upright in 'Trackie', which gives the feel of being relatively high when compared to other general estate vehicles (obviously not as high as a Tiguan!). The boot was HUGE, bigger and better at carrying things when compared to a friend's A4 Allroad (the boot lid has a stylish slope to it - 'Trackie was pretty much straight).
The suspension was very, erm! comfy - that's a way I'd describe it, quite soft, takes the poor road surfaces very well. Don't forget this is no 'sports' anything, so expect a softly sprung ride, and it does deliver, takes corners well, lots of feedback, but it won't 'push-on' at all. .
I think in the 6 months I called upon the 4 Motion, once, maybe twice, just to test it, and it did do a surprising good climb up a wet grassy bank.
Mine was a 177 TDI to a DSG box, and to be honest, it never felt like it had the power, even in the rain to unsettled the 4wd system even once (on hard accelerating), so not sure you'd notice it in the 140 BHP version, maybe with a manual box it might...?
MPG was OK, I expected more, I think over the 6k miles I ended up with an average of 34.5 mpg, my current A4 Quattro (same engine, gear box) - is giving me 37 (ish). I did manage a run once in motorway 50-60 MPH traffic of 70 miles which averaged 50 MPG - I was very pleased with that.
All in all a very over looked car, when compared to an Allroad, I can see why people would buy the Audi, but for less money a correctly spec'ed 'Trackie' would be very tempting. Although I would want Xenons - as the normal lights I had were crap, I loved the heated seats, heated screen I used a few times, great when I needed it, it blurred night vision for the rest of the time (a pain). Sat Nav was OK - but not as nice or clear as the Audi set-up. However DAB radio - which comes with the SD Card sat-nav was brilliant, much better than a basic Audi DAB and almost as good as a 5 yr old AUDI Bose set-up from my old TT's - not for volume but for clarity
I can see why they stopped making them though, think I've seen 3 in the whole 6 months I had mine.
Last comment - it's very comfy.
jj
I really enjoyed it. The seats were HUGE, large base and good wide back, you tend to sit quite upright in 'Trackie', which gives the feel of being relatively high when compared to other general estate vehicles (obviously not as high as a Tiguan!). The boot was HUGE, bigger and better at carrying things when compared to a friend's A4 Allroad (the boot lid has a stylish slope to it - 'Trackie was pretty much straight).
The suspension was very, erm! comfy - that's a way I'd describe it, quite soft, takes the poor road surfaces very well. Don't forget this is no 'sports' anything, so expect a softly sprung ride, and it does deliver, takes corners well, lots of feedback, but it won't 'push-on' at all. .
I think in the 6 months I called upon the 4 Motion, once, maybe twice, just to test it, and it did do a surprising good climb up a wet grassy bank.
Mine was a 177 TDI to a DSG box, and to be honest, it never felt like it had the power, even in the rain to unsettled the 4wd system even once (on hard accelerating), so not sure you'd notice it in the 140 BHP version, maybe with a manual box it might...?
MPG was OK, I expected more, I think over the 6k miles I ended up with an average of 34.5 mpg, my current A4 Quattro (same engine, gear box) - is giving me 37 (ish). I did manage a run once in motorway 50-60 MPH traffic of 70 miles which averaged 50 MPG - I was very pleased with that.
All in all a very over looked car, when compared to an Allroad, I can see why people would buy the Audi, but for less money a correctly spec'ed 'Trackie' would be very tempting. Although I would want Xenons - as the normal lights I had were crap, I loved the heated seats, heated screen I used a few times, great when I needed it, it blurred night vision for the rest of the time (a pain). Sat Nav was OK - but not as nice or clear as the Audi set-up. However DAB radio - which comes with the SD Card sat-nav was brilliant, much better than a basic Audi DAB and almost as good as a 5 yr old AUDI Bose set-up from my old TT's - not for volume but for clarity
I can see why they stopped making them though, think I've seen 3 in the whole 6 months I had mine.
Last comment - it's very comfy.
jj
Thankyou for the detailed information. It's a manual so will hopefully see 40mpg on a decent run. Main reason we bought it was for the size of the boot and the 4 wheel drive for the winter in the north of scotland. They seem to be well equipped as standard but as you say should have xenons as standard.
Cheers
Adam
Cheers
Adam
AC14RKE84 said:
Brilliant. Cheers for the info. Can't find that review as you mentioned sadly. Cheers Adam
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