As much as I love seeing 100k + BMW's reviews on Joe's channel, this video was great. Different and entertaining. And Joe's enthusiasm made it very lively. More of those please.

It was a pleasure to work on the Passat & we're looking forward to the next video!

I had 2 red passats estates in 1995 . I just got out of a mental hospital and was at a low ebb in my life . I got a job delivering parcels and I got my first red Passat estate and I absolutely loved it . The freedom of the countrywide driving job in a car that had so much space was absolutely brilliant 🤩 a great boost for my life at that point …. It was a big comfy car with the room of a van and the fuel consumption of a car 🚗

So good to see a family run business being used instead of one of the big national chains. Always feel that the service and attention you recieve is far better from a family run business then it is from a big corporation who seem to be just after ££££... Well done to Elite for being involved and hope the Passat performs well.

I had a Passat for the last 7 years, 2011 B7 2l TDI, did 110 thousand miles in it and only serviced it every two years, never skipped a beat. I could drive to Italy from the south of Germany and back on one tank, one of the best cars ever made. I sold it last year and i miss that car every day.

I had a2018 skoda superb 2.0 190 tdi dsg sel executive estate and I was blow away just how brilliant it was on fuel ,this car would regularly return 250 miles to a quarter tank of diesel, economy mode and keeping it around 60 mph on a long run .it was fantastic. I also have access to a 2011 volkswagan passat 1.6 tdi estate and it just eats up the miles .such a shame for all the ulez bollocks that has seen so many of the brilliant cars being sent to the scrap yard years before their time .really looking forward to seeing how this epic trip goes .

I have a Passat B7 estate (13) - 2.0 - 170 bhp. bought 6 years ago with 120k miles for £6.5k. Now over 200k miles and going strong. Serviced and maintained - Best car ive owned 50 mpg general and 62mpg on a long run

Makes me sad that so few cars are available with contrast interiors these days, it's all black on black on black, immensely dull. BMW are one of the few with a range of interior colours across the whole range.

Great video. Can’t believe I’m more excited about this Passat than the new £50k one 🤔

So happy Elite garages are featured. The hubby always takes the car there and the kids love going into the shop because the staff are so fab. Their favourite is Jane 🙌🏼

Great to see support from a local business. Well done to all involved at Elite Garages.

Loved the video, Joe! I bought a 2014 Octavia with the same 1.6 TDI engine recently at auction and it’s brilliant. Managed 65mpg on the journey home without even trying. 117k miles, serviced every year and aside from some slightly scuffed wheels, remarkably clean. All for £3k! Bargains can still be had

Love the video - I am a sucker for material about used cars being bought back up to scratch. Subscribed.

I've a 1.6 Bluemotion Golf diesel , 2011 with over 100k on the clock that I've owned for the last 10years. Averages 60/70 mpg (seen over 80 on mile munching trips) and returns over 800 miles to a tank (55lts) enables us to travel from Lancashire to the Jurassic Coast and back without the need for a refuel. I've All Season tyres on the Golf that reduces mpg but still returning brilliant figures for a 13 year old car....maintenance is King. Enjoyed the vlog and you have a new sub mate 😁

It doesn't look 13 years old. I used to have a 1.6tdi octavia and loved it. Your Passat is so much better looking than the recently launched version. I look forward to hearing how comfortable and ecomical it is, over the coming months.

Great to see a family run garage featured. Interesting video, look forward to seeing what happens with this.

13:36 Love to see a Nissan S-Cargo being used properly

Big up the Elite Garages team! I get my MOT and service done with them every year

Great to see small family businesses featured 👍🏽

Excellent video! Love the feature of Elite Garages 👏

Love this new format style of content Joe, especially with cars which are more relatable to the masses. I absolutely love a fuel economy challenge, so I look forward to see what’s in store for this Passat! 😁

A back to basics video. It’s a thumbs up from me dude 👍👍

This is such great content, i cant wait to see this epic challenge. The Passat is a mile muncher💪

Absolutely love this kind of content! Amazing video mate, as always. Can‘t wait to see more of this journey

Just bought my third Passat this week - superb cars!👍👍

This is a genuinely interesting video. Great pick on the vehicle and valid points about alignment and running the right tyre on the right wheel. Very interested to see the results.

more interesting to me than the new stuff you have on the channel!

Great to see Elite Garages featured 👍

Really nice car! I had a 2007 Passat with the 2 liter turbo. Still my favorite drive to this day.

Great service from Elite Garages as always! Brian and Pavel really know their stuff and they have quick access to a huge range of tyres from their local warehouse. Good luck Joe with the challenge

I had one, 1.6tdi, estate, 2012 year - bought for running Scotland to the Midlands regularly - I was never blown away by the economy. It was good, but not as good as I was expecting.

Amazing ! Thanks for the content, Joe! Wish you a wonderful trip ! 🚙

What a cracking video Joe, loving this mate and can’t wait for the next instalment.

The best diesel challenge is back,excited 👍💪😉

Great video, I can't wait to see how the journey goes! Just booked my car in for an MOT as Horsham is super close to me! Thanks for the recommendations.

Absolutely love this video Joe. Intrigued!!

Just bought a 2014 Passat Bluemotion 1.6 Estate premium a few weeks back and loving it. Only paid £3,995

Great video - looking forward to the next (I learnt to drive in a Passat!)! Elite also happens to be my local garage of choice - always friendly, always efficient - I'd highly recommend it!

Those 1.6 TDI Bluemotions are great, my family have one in a B8 Passat Estate, and it'll do 60+ MPG and 800 miles on a tank on a motorway run without even trying, and it has 18" wheels with semi sporty tyres! It's not very quick, but decently torquey to drive 😄Looking forward to the adventure!

Great content that people can relate to promoting the small business. Your reviews are always detailed and real. Thanks Joe.

A really interesting video. The car was a good buy, clearly, and having had the thorough service and overhaul should be good for many years yet. Looking forward to more videos on this scenario looking at the sort of car that is commonplace on the roads. Nice one Joe!

As I was saying the other day Joe, even if there are frustrations at times on your side, videos like this keep us on the edge of our seat! Brilliant! 😊Can’t wait to see what happens next! Well done ! Cheers, Tom

Great to see Elite Garages working on the Passat. Looking forward to the next video!!

Love this upload - variety is important

Awesome video Mr Joe. They should open a garage here in South Africa We need plenty reliable mechanics all time.

I had a 1.6 TDI Ibiza FR on a cheap lease 2013-16 and it was incredible on fuel. Once as a poor graduate I wanted to go home for the weekend (200 mile round trip) and did it on 2.5 gallons so about £14 at the time at an indicated 80mpg! It took a long time at 55mph but even at 70mph 70mpg was possible and even fully loaded going to Le Mans at 90mph three up it did 58mpg.

Elite Garage ❤ great service. Enjoyed the video ❤

This video is absolute class! Great job

Great video Joe! Such a real world perspective and what a brilliant business to deal with :)

Cool video really interesting. And great to see you doing more variety. 👍👍👍

The headlights came out like new!! Good job 👍

I bought a 2011 1.4 TSI DSG Passat in February this year. Gave it a new set of wheels, full service and MOT. So far the only things that needed some work was the A/C that somehow lost it's cooling liquid and currently the steering lock module is giving some intermittent warnings of being defective, which the local Bosch service station is busy sourcing the replacement part for. Other than that, we have done some miles in the car already and it really is a very pleasant car to own and drive. Definitely think that you will not be disappointed by this one.

I believe the max weight Royal Mail mail parcels is 30kg so those Post Office scales were a great idea ! 👍

I bought a 2015 Passat Japanese import last September with less than 25k km on it. It’s immaculate, I love it. Importing right had drive cars into Ireland changed from the UK to Japan due to Brexit.

Great video! Fantastic to see a local company featured, well done to Elite Garages and all of their brilliant team! Best of luck Joe on your adventure 🛞 🚘

Love the video and the format 😊

There is nothing quite like a relatable video! Be interesting to see what you have in mind.

Great video Joe and what a refreshing change to see something so different. Looking at the potential mileage you got from previous diesels and hopefully that will be replicated with this Passat, it’s frustrating that diesels are so demonised now.

Lovely colour Passat, who doesn't love Cashmere

Hey Joe - great video, interesting, fun and relevant thanks😊👍

Wow 60 years!

my dad owns one, 2.0TDI executive model, very nice comfortable car, pulls well and decent on fuel. Never any major issues

Real, relatable and authentic content. I’m enjoying a lot of increasing nostalgic reviews across many channels. It’s almost as if we all know it can never get better than what we had.

Hi mate good video, I work there and was the one who noticed you when you were about to leave😂

Interesting and intriguing! Thank you Joe 😊

Looks very tidy for its age. Cracking motor. Like others, I'm more excited at seeing how this motor performs more than a new model.

Nice video! I like the concept, an affordable car that isn’t a shit box! Be good to see how things progress 👌🏻

On my fourth Passat estate now, a 19 plate 2.0 Tdi with DSG. I'm getting 59 mpg overall and 62 on runs, sometimes hitting 71 mpg if I'm on a hospital drive. I can easily fit 2 road bikes in the back, seats folded and 3 bikes + 4 adults if I remove wheels, drop the boot floor and pack carefully. Great car.

Loving these normal car videos!

1.6tdi the worst engine ever, had to fit 5 new injectors in 2 years, i got rid of the crap, and got a 2.0 tdi, a different story all together...

This car looks lovely! I'm tempted to get one!!❤

Surely changing wheel size affects the speedometer accuracy?

Really lovely! I recently bought a VW Passat 2.0 TDi CC version, a 2010! I have had it 6 weeks and it has been a dream so far. So smooth and powerful.

An excellent vehicle with the bonus of a superb colour combination. Those leather seats would clean up beautifully using Gliptone's range of leather care products. Lovely choice of tyre for this fuel efficient vehicle. My choice would be the Cross Climate for use all year round. Great service from Elite Garages. For those not local enough to use them looking up a local Bosch approved independent garage is well worth doing. Thank you.

My dad had one (an estate) and it was amazing. It still is watching this video 👌

I’m seeing a new level of production and presentation, looks really professional and entertaining mate 👍 EDIT: Just finished watching, super excited about the trip now!

Great video Joe 🎉

It was very interesting to see this video as I have a 2011 Golf 1.6tdi Bluemotion Technology which I've had since new and found it to be an excellent car. And also interesting to hear you talk about how good tyres make a huge difference to a car's efficiency. 20 years ago I had two identical cars, one fitted with cheap tyres and one fitted with Conti eco contact tyres and the one with eco tyres did 10% better mpg.

Yes Joe this video is excellent. Love the car!!!!

Horsham, Sussex I think but great to see you down my neck of the woods. Great video as always though!

I recently gave up leasing and bought a V70, last of the D5's and with a manual box, got more love for it than any new car ive had in a long while!

Im on my 5th Passat TDI. Kept my last one 11 and a half years . Advertised it Thursday night, sold it for full asking price on the Saturday (first person to see it) with 200k on it. Awesome motors and frugal with it.

I used to have a Golf Bluemotion. The economy was brilliant. I did a 'Driving Miss Daisy' run and managed to get 81mpg. It was great on the wallet.

Just make sure you do fairly regular longer trips, to prevent the DPF from blocking up. These 1.6's are bar-stewards for it.

Love these videos

Great video, Joe. What's the mileage of the Passat?

Cracking video 👏🏼

Cant wait to see what happens next! 🙌

Wife has a 2018 2.0 TSi petrol. Great car. Only issue we have had is that the paint seems to chip easily.

The ‘Dream Machine’ 😂 Love it mate!

Cant wait for the next video🔥

Great family business

A friend has a Fabia with the same engine. His is remapped. The fuel economy no doubt outstrips this Passat considerably, it hauls around something like 300kg less mass. He likes to send me photos of his dash MPG calculator after econo-runs. It is usually north of 75MPG.

Just got rid of a 1999 2l TDi passat. 240,000 miles and still running well. Serviced every 5k miles with synth oil and filter.

Can’t wait for part 2

Great video as per usual 👍

Great video Joe. I nice change up from the usual entertaining and informative reviews. And good for promoting Elite garages too. Recently I’ve been looking at acquiring a classic of some kind and would be looking at getting a full health check and service after buying one. So will keep them in mind as an option. Now to just get my big boy pants on and actually buy one…. Maybe 😂😂😂

I have a technical question about tyre size and mileage. If a car comes out of the factory with 17 inch tyres, is the trip computer/odemeter programmed to calculate the mileage travelled based on the number of rotations of that size wheel? If it is, then doesn't putting smaller tyres (or larger tyres for that matter) mean that the trip computer/odometer will calculate the mileage incorrectly? The corollary to my question is that if the answer is yes, putting smaller tyres on the Passat will mean that it will look like it has travelled a longer distance than it actually has. That would scupper any calculations on how many miles you get out of it on the trip to Africa.

I had a 2013 Passat CC 2.0 TDI - 1000 miles to a tank on the motorway happened man times. Insane how efficient it was. I would easily go over a month without needing to fill up

I've run a B7 Passat Alltrack 2.0tdi 177 DSG for the last 4 years, as a family workhorse replacement to a much loved E91 330i manual. Excellent mile muncher and very capable in snow with 4-Motion and all season tyres. Not as bombproof as I'd hoped though. DSG box issues (sorted at £2.5k at VW independant), split EGR pipe, DPF nearing end of life at 100k (due to ash build up rather than being blocked), snapped rear springs, seized rear bushings, electric handbrake sticking. Guess mainly 'wear and tear' but I think my E91 more reliable overall.