2016 Volkswagen Passat - Review

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PRICE : 1.8T due south 4dr Sedan $22,440

PRICE : 1.8T R-Line 4dr Sedan $23,975

PRICE : 1.8T SE 4dr Sedan $26,280
PRICE : SE w/Technology $28,410
PRICE : 1.8T SEL 4dr Sedan $30,495
PRICE : 1.8T SEL Premium 4dr Sedan $34,270
PRICE : V6 SEL Premium 4dr Sedan $36,835

When the current-generation Passat was start unveiled for the 2012 model year, Volkswagen purists cried foul. The Audi-lite outside styling of the outgoing Passat was replaced past times to a greater extent than generic canvass metal. The previously high-quality interior materials were downgraded, in addition to similar cuts were made inward the engine bay. Gone was the turbocharged 2.0-liter engine in addition to automated clutch transmission shared with the GTI. In its house was an anemic 2.5-liter five-cylinder engine that made it hard for the Passat to move out of its ain way. The Passat's once-vaunted treatment supremacy inward the midsize degree shifted inward favor of a comfort-oriented setup that left the sedan clumsy inward the corners.

It was a sedan aimed squarely at the mainstream, with a lower cost that allowed the Passat to amend compete with the Camrys in addition to Accords that dominated the segment. Sales went upward in addition to acre they lagged behind the degree leaders, the Passat still contributed healthily to Volkswagen's bottom line. So when it came fourth dimension to refresh VW's 2nd best-selling automobile inward the U.S., the automaker characteristically chose to play it safe.

You'd receive got to live an eagle-eyed Volkswagen aficionado to notice the differences betwixt the 2015 in addition to 2016 models inward damage of body styling. Exterior changes are mostly express to a domed hood, revised headlights, LED taillights in addition to chrome window trim. The upgrades are to a greater extent than apparent from behind the wheel. The top trim back bird at nowadays gets total leather seating rather than a leather/simulated suede combo. Several blueprint elements are borrowed from the 2015 Golf, including a revised steering cycle in addition to musical instrument cluster.

On SE models with the Technology package, equally good equally the SEL in addition to SEL Premium trims, smartphone integration comes inward the shape of an upgraded version of Volkswagen's Car-Net telematics arrangement called App-Connect. Certain smartphone applications, including Spotify in addition to Stitcher, are emulated on the Passat's touchscreen display via Apple CarPlay, Android Auto in addition to MirrorLink. While the novel touchscreen that incorporates those features is appreciably faster than the former one, it is noticeably smaller than screens used inward almost every other midsize sedan.

Although there's a lot to similar nearly the Passat, it operates inward a competitive segment with numerous venture alternatives. The 2016 Ford Fusion in addition to redesigned 2016 Honda Accord are a duet of our favorite midsize sedans, each with impressive styling in addition to a pick of powerful engines. If a sporty midsize is to a greater extent than your style, it doesn't instruct much amend than the 2016 Mazda 6, although an engine upgrade is non available. If you're later a refined in addition to tranquillity ride, the 2016 Toyota Camry is equally soundless equally they come. The 2016 Kia Optima in addition to 2016 Hyundai Sonata are likewise proficient choices that offering a rigid value proposition.

EXTERIOR

The changes are subtle at start glance, but the 2016 Volkswagen Passat has been redesigned from the windshield forwards to give the sedan a to a greater extent than commanding presence, with a newly sculpted hood, slimmer headlights in addition to bolder grille adding both refinement in addition to strength. The novel Passat R-Line variant takes the sportiness a stride further, with unique front end in addition to nurture styling touches, darker 19-inch wheels in addition to more. The Passat’s tech upgrade includes the mightiness to opened upward the torso when your hands are total past times waving your human foot nether the nurture bumper (when the key is inward your steal or purse).

INTERIOR

The layout of the interior is the same equally that of the outgoing model, but VW has made picayune changes to the details hither in addition to there. This is best exemplified past times the steering wheel, which is no longer used equally a agency for VW to demo off exactly how cheap-looking plastic tin be. The novel cabin gives every appearance of having been made with higher character materials, in addition to this is good, since that was i of the major failings of the electrical flow generation. The automobile likewise gets the latest VW infotainment system, at nowadays compatible with Apple CarPlay in addition to Android Auto. Volkswagen likewise claims that the arrangement at nowadays boasts faster reply times, which is ever a proficient thing.

SPECIFICATION

►Year:2016
►Make:Volkswagen
►Model:Passat
►Price:$ 22440
►Engine:inline-4
►Displacement:1.8 L
►0-60 time:7.5 sec. (Est.)
►Top Speed:155 mph (Est.

FEATURES

► APPLE CARPLAY AND ANDROID AUTO

Apple CarPlay in addition to Android Auto are going to revolutionize in-car infotainment, in addition to the Volkswagen Passat is alongside the start midsize sedans to offering both. Choose a song, dictate a text message or navigate to a goal with the repose in addition to familiarity of your smartphone.

► ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL

Radar-based “smart” cruise command is becoming to a greater extent than mutual on mainstream vehicles, but it’s still a surprise-and-delight characteristic inward anything this side of the luxury set. Set your speed in addition to the Passat volition automatically irksome downwards when it approaches slower traffic, in addition to speed upward over again when the route is clear.

PERFORMANCE

Don't permit the conservative outside permit you lot retrieve that you're getting a big, floaty, uninspiring sedan. The 2016 Passat is quite the opposite; what's nether the hood is exclusively modern in addition to fuel-efficient; suspensions are taut yet comfortable-riding; in addition to you lot won't detect a unmarried fellow member of this lineup that isn't pleasant driving, strong, in addition to smooth.

There are 2 gasoline engines inward the lineup. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 170-horsepower, 1.8-liter turbocharged, direct-injected inline-4 offers impressive peppiness in addition to torque for its pocket-sized ratings. It makes an impressive 184 pound-feet torque, from below 2,000 rpm to inward a higher house 5,000 rpm, which makes this model quicker than its horsepower position out volition suggest.

It's mated to a perfectly fine, smooth-shifting 6-speed automatic. Yet for 2016, the 6-speed manual that's been available on the Passat has been unceremoniously dropped; the Passat was i of the only remaining mid-size models still offering a manual 'box.

At the top of the lineup is the 3.6-liter "VR6" V-6, which remains at 280 hp. It's rigid in addition to smooth, but it's only offered with an automatic in addition to doesn't brand the Passat experience much quicker than with either of the other engines.

A turbodiesel version of the Passat was available until terminal year, when the automaker was forced to push clitoris those models later admitting they cheated emissions tests. It's non clear when, or if, those models volition return.

The 280-horsepower, 3.6-liter V-6 version sits at the top of the heap. Its 0-60 mph fourth dimension of 6.5 seconds in addition to top speed of 130 mph are prissy for those who require to pass more; yet we're non convinced that most Passat buyers are going to care. To position it bluntly, considering the neat difference inward fuel efficiency, the V-6 seems similar an invisible extravagance. It includes a unlike transmission, past times the way; the VR6 comes measure with a 6-speed dual-clutch automatic that includes paddle-shift controls.

We’ve constitute the electrical flow generation of the Passat to live extremely pleasant-driving, with around of the of the best (light yet accurate in addition to nicely weighted) steering systems inward its class. The pause is relatively taut for proficient control, yet the ride is comfortable, in addition to this generation of the Passat is mostly really tranquillity inside.

ON THE ROAD

Part of what differentiated Volkswagen inward the past times was Germany's penchant for edifice cars that tended to live worthwhile to drive. And acre it's still the instance that the Passat volition non leave of absence the enthusiast buyer completely inward the cold, the reality of the province of affairs is that the differences betwixt manufacturers inward this regard receive got shrunk in addition to then drastically over the years that it's hard to construct a instance on treatment in addition to responsiveness alone. Even cars similar the Mazda6--widely regarded equally the segment's dynamic top dog--don't taste an exclusively decisive advantage.

That's bad intelligence for Volkswagen, equally the Passat's dynamics, acre fundamentally sound, are non specially noteworthy. The ride is relatively soft, the tires non specially responsive on-center. These combine for a not-inconsiderable amount of slack inward the steering that must live taken upward earlier the Passat takes a prepare into a curve. It's exclusively competent, but non much of a stand-out inward that regard. Without driving them directly back-to-back, we'd struggle to signal out the Passat's dynamic advantages over a similarly-optioned Sonata or Accord, in addition to that's assuming at that topographic point are whatever to live found. We're skeptical.

We spent all of our fourth dimension behind the cycle of 1.8L "TSI" models. Volkswagen only brought 2 VR6-equipped examples out of around xviii that were available for evaluation. They were inward high demand throughout the twenty-four sixty minutes catamenia in addition to nosotros decided that, rather than trying to struggle our agency to the front end of the line, we'd only pass our fourth dimension with the cars people are going to buy.

It's a deplorable reality, but inward damage of sales numbers, the VR6 was genuinely over-represented inward this sample. In the existent world, receive got charge per unit of measurement on the 3.6L is below 10% according to Volkswagen's production planners. Will the absence of diesel fuel bump that upward a few ticks? Only fourth dimension volition tell. It could live quite a acre earlier TDI models reappear on Volkswagen dealer lots, in addition to they receive got to sell something inward the meantime.

The proficient intelligence is that the 1.8L is a venture carry-over, in addition to acre the absence of diesel fuel may live bad intelligence for dealers, it's only a slice of the larger puzzle.

ENGINE

With Volkswagen’s pop diesel fuel engines on administrative leave of absence for EPA violations, the 2016 Volkswagen Passat lineup includes 2 engines. Most buyers volition pick out the 1.8-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder engine matched with a 6-speed automatic transmission. With underbody aerodynamic improvements in addition to a duet mechanical tweaks, this combination is at nowadays rated to deliver an impressive 38 mpg on the highway, upward from 36 mpg terminal year. Models equipped with the powerful 3.6-liter V6 engine choice likewise characteristic a quick-shifting dual-clutch automatic transmission with steering-wheel-mounted paddle shifters, both of which combine to deliver fifty-fifty to a greater extent than European feel. All Passats are front-wheel drive.

►1.8-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder engine
170 horsepower @ 6,200 rpm
184 lb-ft of torque @ 1,500 rpm
EPA city/highway 25/38 mpg

►3.6-liter V6 engine
280 horsepower @ 6,200 rpm
258 lb-ft of torque @ 2,500 rpm
EPA city/highway 20/28 mpg

SAFETY

The outgoing Passat has a five-star security rating from the NHTSA, in addition to at that topographic point is no argue to retrieve that this would change. Nonetheless, the Passat has around novel security features inward the shape of driver aides. There is adaptive cruise control, forwards collision warning, autonomous emergency braking, blind spot monitoring, lane deviation alert in addition to parking steering assist. There is likewise a novel Post-Collision Braking System, which volition apply the brakes next a major crash to assist take away the automobile to a halt inward the fifty-fifty that the driving isn’t applying the brake for whatever reason. All of these features are optional extras. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 rearview camera, however, is at nowadays standard.

FUEL ECONOMY

There's a large of a cloud hanging over the Passat lineup for 2016, in addition to it mostly concerns fuel efficiency. That's because the highest-mileage powertrain inward the lineup is currently on hiatus, equally VW acts to right a serious federal emissions-cheating scandal with its 2.0-liter TDI engine—the i inward the lineup that used to attain EPA ratings upward to thirty mpg city, 44 highway, in addition to fifty-fifty amend inward real-world driving.

Yet the Passat's base of operations 1.8-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine gets respectable fuel economic scheme acre likewise providing the torque needed for everyday driveability. Its ratings receive got been boosted to 25 mpg city, 38 highway, 29 combined for 2016, cheers to several improvements, including amend aerodynamics in addition to smarter appointment of the air conditioning.

The V-6 Passat, which comes only with an automatic transmission, is EPA-rated at 20/28/23 mpg. It's a chip to a greater extent than competitive with the other top-line models inward its class, but far off the grade of the most powerful four-cylinder turbos similar those constitute inward the Hyundai Sonata in addition to Kia Optima.

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