No wonder the Passat, and the Volkswagen plant that manufactures it, has attracted gleam-filled gaze from the north.
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And the functional, split folding rear seats and large cargo bay make the Passat one of our favorite wagons.
Volkswagen has to make sure the four-cylinder engine in the Jetta and Audi A4 doesn't outperform the six-cylinder in the Passat and Audi A6.
Mr Prentice said it was not known how fast the Passat was travelling when it crashed on Drumcross Road, near its junction with Limefield Road.
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Inadequate in the smaller Jetta and a cruel joke in the Passat, the 2.5L will be replaced with a small-displacement gas-turbo engine for model-year 2013, and not a second too soon.
She said the Passat came "screeching" round a corner, spinning in a handbrake turn, swerving from left to right, then mounting the pavement and hitting a grit bin before speeding away.
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As a brand ambassador in the US, the car's role will be to attract customers to Volkswagen's showrooms and thus drive sales of its other models, such as the Passat, which is built in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the Jetta, which is built alongside the Beetle in Puebla, Mexico.
The Volkswagen Passat won the 2012 Motor Trend Car of the Year award (which judges models on a variety of value and safety criteria), propelling it to sales of over 117, 000 that year alone.
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Even the Camry and the Volkswagen Passat, both redesigned last year, and the Kia Optima, introduced in 2010, are practically brand new.
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Diesel-version sales of the Volkswagen Passat already have reached about 26 percent of all U.S. sales of the Tennessee-built mid-size sedan, and Volkswagen of America executives believe that figure could soon range as high as 30 percent.
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Currently, only the Volkswagen Passat is available with a diesel option, although General Motors is promising to bring a diesel version of the Chevrolet Malibu to market.
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Are the subjects really focusing on pitches for Kit Kat candy, Smirnoff vodka and the Volkswagen Passat?
Stuart Cunningham, 42, from Falkirk, was twice the legal limit when the Volkswagen Passat hit a tree and overturned near Bathgate on 23 August.
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Driving this car, day in, day out, we found the power to be fairly seductive, with--thanks to a stiffened chassis versus the base Passat--an overall agile feel.
The previous version of the Mazda 6 did not give U.S. buyers a diesel option, and the 2014 model will be one of only two midsize sedans available with a diesel engine stateside, the other being the Volkswagen Passat.
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VW's new Touran minivan, Touareg SUV, Audi A3, and new versions of the Golf and Passat, all coming in the next couple of years, could make up for the Phaeton stumble and eventually bring relief from recent troubles.
If another vehicle swerves in front of Junior, for instance, the robotic Volkswagen Passat will leave its lane--or even the road--to avoid a crash.
The Ford Focus, Hyundai Elantra and Volkswagen Passat are the three finalists for North American Car of the Year, and the BMW X3, Honda CR-V and Land Rover Range Rover Evoque are finalists for North American Truck of the Year.
We have the finest family vehicles ever built in the Toyota Camry, Nissan Altima and VW Passat, and the new-for-2003 Honda Accord.
As for the W8 motor, we like the 1.8-liter model offered to Passat customers at the low end of the line, but some buyers might prefer a more relaxed driving style.
Daddy comes home driving the new 2012 Volkswagen Passat.
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Detectives believe someone in a Volkswagen Passat which left the area between 23:00 GMT on Wednesday and 01:00 GMT on Thursday could help them.
Third, the new U.S.-spec Passat can be had with a choice of three and only three engines, one of which, the base 2.5-liter in-line five-cylinder, is a hunk of lumber pulled from the ribs of an ancient Norse longboat.
If another vehicle swerves in front of Junior, for instance, the robotic Volkswagen (other-otc: VLKAF - news - people ) Passat will leave its lane--or even the road--to avoid a crash.
True, there's more chrome here than you'll find in the top-line V-6 Passat, as well as an excellent Monsoon audio system.
The Stanford university team, which won DARPA's last 132-mile robotic race through the Mojave Desert event in 2005, has outfitted its more chic Volkswagon Passat with eight laser sensors and two of Intel's quad-core blade servers, dwarfing the Cybervan's processing power.
The court heard they also talked about being dead by the time a MOT certificate for a Volkwagen Passat ran out in June this year.
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