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"FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com" (alphaass) 03/31/2018 at 17:46 • Filed to: Volkswagen Passat

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Rental update: The Passat handles large quantities of people, plants, and food well. It is otherwise unremarkable. We have it for two more days, so a rental review should be inbound sometime next week.

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com 03/31/2018 at 17:51

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HELLO FRIEND

Svend > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com 03/31/2018 at 18:09

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It’s Czech version is the same. It does everything very very well but otherwise, very unremarkable.

Svend > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 03/31/2018 at 18:11

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HELLO NEIGHBOUR

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > Svend 03/31/2018 at 18:20

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This is now a VW group family car thread.

Spanfeller is a twat > Svend 03/31/2018 at 18:35

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Not the same.... your Skoda doesn’t roll on the NMS.


(MQB?) Skoda is good.

Svend > Spanfeller is a twat 03/31/2018 at 18:49

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It’s family.

True your Passat doesn’t roll on an MQB platform like the Skoda Superb, but ours does,

Yours is North America, China and South Korea only.

Spanfeller is a twat > Svend 03/31/2018 at 18:53

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Yeah... we still get a v6 which I guess is a win? But otherwise it’s a car that took me 5 minutes of driving it to know I did not want to drive it ever again.

Svend > Spanfeller is a twat 03/31/2018 at 19:03

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Get yourself into a VW Arteon for a test drive. The Arteon, Passat (non NMS) and Superb share the same platform and engines. Same if not very similar size and weight. So should give you an idea of what’s on our side of the pond.

Spanfeller is a twat > Svend 03/31/2018 at 19:07

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Well I’ve driven an Audi Q3 which I think runs on the MQB kit? From what I remember it was OK; felt like a tallish hatchback which is... exactly what it was... and it also kept stalling on us, despite being an automatic. It was a free upgrade rental car so... meh.

I dunno... we don’t get the Artheon here... yet... fingers crossed it gets here!

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > Spanfeller is a twat 03/31/2018 at 19:12

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In the US we are getting the Arteon on a year or two delay after Europe, so Mexico may be around the same time.

Svend > Spanfeller is a twat 03/31/2018 at 19:15

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The Q3 is a A5 (PQ45) platform shared with the old Tiguan and Yeti.

The Q3 Mk2 with the MQB platform goes on sale in the next couple or so months.

CompactLuxuryFan > Spanfeller is a twat 03/31/2018 at 19:17

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Nah, Q3 is still on the older platform for some reason. The one the first US-bound A3 was on. It had been out for a really long time before the US got it (with the old powertrain from that A3 instead of the newer ones it gets everywhere else, no less).

Spanfeller is a twat > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com 03/31/2018 at 19:20

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Yeah but the thing is.... we should get it before you .

We love VW to an almost disgusting extent and their biggest factory outside Germany is in Puebla; we also do a shit ton of RnD for them.

Plus we have a million billion FTAs with Germany, and we don’t really have any government regulations on cars except emissions which all VW cars already pass, nevermind that those FTAs and the Puebla factory mean we have like a million ships sailing to Europe everyday.... the infrastructure is there alright!

VW owes a great debt to my country and it should pay it back in interesting cars for sale, plus, it would be a fantastic sales strategy to offer the Arteon here first we would eat that shit right up!

Spanfeller is a twat > Svend 03/31/2018 at 19:22

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Mhm......

Well I only really have driven two VWs the NMS passat and the (now old) Jetta... I didn’t find issue with the Jetta other than the gearbox and the engine... I’ll make the rounds this summer with all the MQB cars I can get my hands on in Spain.

Svend > Spanfeller is a twat 03/31/2018 at 19:28

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You’ll be able to try the SEATs too.

You’ll be rather busy as there are quite a few now.

There’s the:-

Audi A3 Mk3, TT, Q2,

SEAT Ibiza Mk5, Leon Mk3, Ateca, Arona,

Skoda Octavia, Superb Mk3, Korq, Kodiaq,

VW Arteon Golf Mk7, Passat Mk8, Polo Mk6, T-roc, Tiguan Mk2 and Touran Mk2.

Svend > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com 03/31/2018 at 19:33

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I do like the Arteon.

Spanfeller is a twat > Svend 03/31/2018 at 19:34

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There’s a funny sort of very discriminative thing about Galician car dealers and it is that if you walk in with a latin accent they just assume you’re going to buy their most expensive car because that’s how some of the immigrants behave there. So I could walk in and say “Hola” with the oh-so foreign oh so under-pronounced and slow,cool Mexican accent and they would get on their knees... One dealer once opened a GT4 cayman for me which was weird because I wasn’t even supposed to be at the Porsche dealer... how did I drift there?


If I could get my hands on an Audi TT RS oh boy...

Svend > Spanfeller is a twat 03/31/2018 at 19:44

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Car dealerships especially the ‘more premium’ ones behave in such a peculiar way.

Next time go in and say bonjour.

Spanfeller is a twat > Svend 03/31/2018 at 19:53

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Yeah, they do..but the stereotype is true... Along the villages most cars are the largest engines, be them petrols or diesels... it’s genuenly funny seeing 335is and 335ds parked all over the place and like ML350 bluetecs and ML63 too. All with the oh-so-common red plates that exempt non-residents from road tax.

If I went around speaking french in Spain I’d have my citizenship revoked....

Svend > Spanfeller is a twat 03/31/2018 at 20:03

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That would be a curious case, ‘sir we are revoking your citizenship for speaking another language not native to you or use. We’ll allow Portuguese at a push but French, we must draw the line, for beyond that line lays anarchy. Good day sir auf wiedersehen’.

Spanfeller is a twat > Svend 03/31/2018 at 20:04

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It’s not like they’ve refrained from that before....