You should review the SQ8 2024 next time. It is gorgeous

LETS GO

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Highly appreciate your kind words 🙏🙏 always feel free to share and recommend 😎

I said the same thing before, but the steering wheel button was enough to put VW back on the 'consider it' list. Yes, real sliders would make that position even more solid.

Then you just go with Skoda Superb.

Agreed, I hate sw cars which look like funeral cars. That 15 screen is dreadful. I really don't like vw's new design language with the latest models. And upmarket my ass without leather seats.. Vw is becoming the nokia of smartphones.

Go drive a Passat and a Superb and even an Audi A4 back to back . . .no comparison in the quality and ride comfort in each car. They are all very different. Each one is a marked step above the other, with the Skoda at the bottom.

@@CorciochSo funny! We have many Passat and Superb in our company, no doubt, the VW can't reach the level of Škoda. I have no recent experience with Audi (because I prefer BMW!).

@@Corcioch Depends where you drive - the A6, which is a more direct competitor to the Superb if you can live with 100 liters less boot space, feels awful on Irish back roads and over speed bumps crashing and banging over everything thanks to the 'sporty' suspension, while the Superb floats over the whole lot, to the point where it can hold grip on rough bends with a lot more confidence than more sporty cars, so going point to point on bad roads it's faster, safer and more comfortable. If you stay at or below the speed limit, the extra handling at the limit you might get with an Audi on a track day is irrelevant, but everyone in the car benefits from the comfortable ride in the Skoda on every single trip. Now that Citroen have been cost engineered out of making interesting cars with proper suspension, the Superb is one of the best riding cars left.

I think it was about proper buttons on the steering wheel

Lol

That’s way is cheaper, Volkswagen became cheap shit including materials.

Thomas what really happened to luxurious real leather?

​@@ThomasMarshall-pg7ye I don't think it's luxurious to sit on dead animals

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Looks like an older generation Renault

I agree, @mart_en

Just looks like a bigger golf. Not just that, they mixed the mk7 and mk8 styling together.

I disagree. This one's gorgeous.

@@UsefulSitesI wanted to comment „looks like a Golf“ but when I look at it with Renault in mind, looks indeed like a Megane.

At least it doesn't seem to have 20 different random beeps and pings to 'welcome' you into the car or tell you it has no idea where the lane you're following is like a lot of the Asian cars are doing.

It's got to the point that Passats are selling second hand cheaper than similar mileage and age Superbs where I live because the dogs on the street know the Superb is a better car. By better I mean more practical and cheaper to keep on the road.

If this is on the market before the Superb, it'll be the first time since the Superb was released that VW is making an estate car with more boot space than Skoda.

It is the new hood/front

aprox. 220-250 kg

Thanks m8!

I would be interested if you added comments about comfort from Leah in future reviews. We are not all tall like you!. Also It would be interesting to hear how scared she is by your driving, in comparison tests. @@autogefuehl

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Alpina

@@autogefuehl thanks!

More like 30 seconds. „Let’s search for other manufacturers interior“. Most of the screens look like they are supplied by the same manufacturer.

Yep, I think we will be driving them for many years to come.

Cheers!

I have a MK7 Golf and to me this Passat looks very much alike from the front. Definitely need more differentiation between model families and generations in the looks department.

Alfa Romeo Tonale :)

yes but they will stop after 2026 so no successor for this model sadly

You might even save some money:)

Or maybe don't buy something boring like skoda or vw

The best of the new VW Passat is That you can buy a Skoda Superb instead ❤

@@johnnysilverhand1733I mean in my personal opinion, the all new Superb has a more premium looking interior with it's colour options, lesser reliance on gloss black plastic and more shapely dash. The additional climate buttons make it more usable.

Skoda drives like a mule.

I'm on the fence about these glowing logos. It seems cheap in some ways.

Yes, leather uses more chemicals and also ends up in landfills.

@@robingoergner725but surely leather will biodegrade which plastic won’t?

I'm pretty sure what qualifies as leather as used in car seats that aren't coachbuilt Roll Royce style is a long way from biodegradeable natural leather anyway. The best reason to continue using leather is that no demand for leather will turn it into waste from the beef industry rather than all the resources used to grow the cows going to meat only, making beef even more wasteful. If cows were being farmed for leather first and meat second then I'd be all for cutting leather usage, but it's being produced as a side effect of the meat industry, so the meat side of the industry will continue to lay waste to the planet whether the leather is used or not.

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@@autogefuehl That’s interesting. Thank you for the links and information, I’ll have to check them out and get better educated on the subject! Keep up the amazing work!

How? External design language is basically the same as Tiguan and previous models. Internal also completetly different than Skoda - so where is that influence exactly?

@@mikemarillion5221 didnt you notice the umbrella in the front doors?

@@pavelholub8668 I'm pretty sure VW did the umbrella in the door first, but Skoda tended to put it in without the buyer having to specifically pay extra to get it (Which is part of the reason there are so many people with poverty spec luxury cars as they get the badge, while the budget cars get the spec). More useful and missing from the VW range is the LED torch that acts as a boot light when clipped in position in the boot and is kept charged from the car battery. It even has a magnetic base so it can be stuck to the car when required if you need to check the car at night.

It would be a dismal failure. Americans don't buy wagons anymore.

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@@autogefuehl Schoenen Tag noch. 🙂

Passenger feedback is vital! And now I also feel it

Cost saving?

I ve seen a lot of microfibre cars, also older ones, and I wasnt disappointed so far. All depends on the quality grade

@@autogefuehl First of all thanks for replying. Most channels are silent so big up! I think tho, that in the average older 5-10 years old car, it's more common to find good leather as it's still considered as a luxury option than good quality microfiber. Also i think leather must be easier to maintain unstained and dust free than any other fabric. My 2 cents. Cheers!