Volkswagen Passat B5 2000 - 2005 sedan
The harbinger of the era
I called this article a harbinger of the era because, it seems to me, in a couple of decades a car with a gasoline engine will become the same anachronism as steam locomotives now. After all, if gasoline engines have already exhausted the resource of improvement, then with diesel engines still work and work. And let some have some habit of associate passenger diesel engines ...
Volkswagen Passat B5
The sales volumes of this model in Russia are haunted by competitors. Recently, the car has been facilitated, but both new and old passats are in demand. The 1996 Passat B5 was the first brainchild of the Folkswagen concern program. The positive side of this program was an unprecedented low price for a car such ...
Beer or wine?
Cars with a wagon body are easily explained among people's household people, as well as simply family ones. Recently, the situation has become aggravated in connection with some unhealthy excitement around outdoor activities. Meanwhile, the name itself - the station wagon - suggests that such a machine, being a relatively accessible tool against the deficiency of space in ...
Name - money
The national characteristics of the middle class, whether the owner of any new foreign car looked like a ball of fate. Today, the imported vehicles of the Lada class are already perceived quite calmly - the prestige bar has shifted to the middle class - D. The prices here start from $ 18-20 thousand, reaching $ 30-40 thousand, or even higher. However, a considerable part of this amount buyer ...
In the traditions of the brand
The new Passat as a MARDER combat vehicle, which I drove when I pulled an urgent in the 312th battalion of the 11th Panzer-Grenadier Division of Bundeswehr, in Oldenburg. I remember that the chief feldfebel Limka loved to repeat, instructing us, young driver mechanics: Marder is controlled and obedient, like a wife, until you get out of yourself. You sit in a new Passat and, Naturalich, everything ...
Rapprochement of positions
Computer design makes cars more and more similar, but their living people are set up ... Ford Mondeo made their debut in 1993, in 2000 a completely new model appeared, which is produced with three types of body: sedan, station wagon, hatchback. They are equipped with four gasoline engines 1.8 liters (110 and 125 l. 2.0 l (145 hp), ...
The car will move ...
Russia is a country of sedanov. But you firmly decided to buy a station wagon? Well, we are glad to help. In Europe, middle -class universals are often in great demand than basic models with a sedan body. But in Russia, common sense is not without difficulty joining with prestige and social status. However, little by little and we have ...
How much is the image
In this duet, one still remains an unconditional leader, and the other has to convince customers that he is at least no worse. The struggle in the Russian market of medium -sized cars will not give way, perhaps, to jump on the Russian market, perhaps, perhaps, survival races. For the favor of buyers, more than 20 marks of Japanese, German, French, Swedish, English, ...
White collar
The Volkswagen Passat is very popular with us, and restyling spurred by last fall spurred interest in the car. Surely you also paid attention to the Passat if you choose a middle -class model. In one wheel-in the business classono do not think that the Passat is so popular due to the fact that it can be bought somewhere on sale. Per…
The wind in diamonds
The 2001 Volkswagen Passat premiere was held in the fall on the Paris Mondial de L'Automobile. Already in November, the new Passat appeared in St. Petersburg. At the appointed hour we drive up to the meeting place. The car gives its presence from afar - the sun bunches flash on a new, more elongated radiator grille, on the chrome bumper overlays, on molding, on ...