VW Passat: Vehicle review by AutoWeek

AutoWeek made a vehicle review of the 2006 VW Passat.

Volkswagen has just loosed its sixth-generation Passat on dealer showrooms across the country, and none too soon. The German automaker is in desperate need of a marketplace pick-me-up, and the Passat may prove the right prescription.

The Passat is as handsome a design as any hailing from Wolfsburg these days, with an even higher level of interior refinement than the VW norm—already the leader in the field—and a more elegantly shaped skin.

That added power and the extra cog were evident in our short suburban road drive in the new VW, putting the base Passat drive­train in the hunt with upscale V6 models of the Toyota Camry and Honda Accord.

Then again, neither the Camry nor Accord can run with the Passat. A V6-powered Camry ($20,915) is good for just 190 horses—10 shy of the base Passat. Honda’s $24,500 V6 Accord maxes out at 240 hp— respect­able, but still 40 horses shy of the six-cylinder Volkswagen.

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Source: AutoWeek

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