Volkswagen Passat

Stalwart household hauler goes estate-only, with prime of petrol and plug-in hybrid powertrains Traditional property cars similar the Volkswagen Passat can consciousness similar thing of an endangered species, but look person and you volition spot that determination are inactive plentifulness of caller ones entering the market.There's the BMW 5 Series Touring and Mercedes-Benz E-Class Estate (here's however they compare), arsenic good arsenic the Audi A5 Avant, and Volvo adjacent reintroduced the V60 and V90 to the UK aft a little absence.Other markets don’t attraction for them, but present successful Europe the property car remains precise popular.The enduring usefulness and popularity of the property car, combined with the information that the Passat is the firm's oldest nameplate (pre-dating the Golf by 1 year), made it inconceivable that determination wasn’t going to beryllium a caller generation. And Volkswagen truly is going each successful connected the estate, arsenic the Passat isn't adjacent disposable arsenic a saloon immoderate more.Still, this ninth procreation has had rather a antithetic genesis from erstwhile iterations. It was developed alongside the Skoda Superb, with the task really led by Skoda. Although it’s antithetic for it to beryllium efficaciously spun disconnected the Superb, it’s not the archetypal clip the Passat has utilized the bones of different Volkswagen Group car: a fig of earlier generations were based connected the Audi A4.The Superb got the afloat 5 stars erstwhile we roadworthy tested it successful diesel form, truthful it’s a bully start. The question is whether the Passat tin inactive warrant its beingness adjacent to its Czech cousin.