Test drive Volkswagen Passat B6 2005 - 2010 sedan

He is from well -fed

The creators of the new Passat seem to know the secret how to make a car more respectable than it really is.
 



SOSEM is a different car
A dark costume, a snow -white shirt, varnished boots ... The mustachioed gentleman with a proud eagle profile, standing a little at a distance, was watching for about ten minutes for about ten minutes already posed at the building of one of the Moscow banks. Finally he decided to approach and politely asked to look into the car. And after a few seconds, having lost all his pretense of solidity, with childhood spontaneity began to rejoice at the interior decoration. Manya has only a year, but there is the ehhhhhhhhh ..., with obvious pleasure, feeling the inserts under the root of the walnut, pressing the lids of the drawers of the front panel on the lids of the drawers of the front panel, touching the luminous handles of the two-zone climate control, he tried to choose words, so that express admiration for what he saw.
 

Almost a cult car for successful business people of the middle hand, yesterday the embodiment of a noble-strict, but without delights of style, in a new embodiment, was furnished in the highest category. The owl is another car, summarized the southerner. And if he only knew how right he was!
  



You can sniff enough
The sellers of the new Passat now do not need to say anything. He put the client in the salon of half the battle. I remember, for the first time when he saw the apartments of Phaeton, he could not restrain his admiration for his perfect chairs. But so that they shared almost the same ... electric drive of the back of the back, bilateral adjustment of the lumbar stop, heated all these Siberian things now you get in version of comfort.
 

What is the dashboard only! The scales slightly drowned in round wells seemed to be cut out of a solid piece of expensive wood. Very similar panels adorn large prestigious audi. And with what dignity a pair of miniature trays under the ducts floats out of their nests. How slowly the lid opens, covering the ashtray with a cigarette lighter. How the pressing of each button is verified. And like an apotheosis of arrogant aristocracy, a large chrome plate with the inscription Passat crowning the adaptation.

 
   
Not only each device, but even the light bulbs are ennobled by chrome rings
   
A pair of drawers trimmed inside with velvet boxes is more likely a style than practicality


It is no less important that all these strokes of sophistication and respectability are organically combined with a spacious salon and even more impressive than the predecessor, the ranges of the front seats adjustments. Unless the sharp lines of the plastic panels of the upholstery of the doors are somewhat out of this pacifying harmony of wealth and convenience.
 

But if you immediately invite the buyer to the rear sofa, he hardly remembers this nuance. Sitting here, thanks to 18 in width and as much as 122 mm in height to the doorway, is very convenient. The sofa itself is still dense in German, and besides, it has acquired a pronounced soft side support of the hips and back. Very comfortably. Turn on the electric drive button on the rear window. All! You can sniff enough ...

 
   
The electric drive of the back of the back and adjustment of the lumbar stop is on modifications of comfort and highline

The sofa is significantly more convenient and spacious than that of the predecessor

The grid in the trunk will allow you to more reliably fix the luggage


But if you think that the aristocracy of the new Passat erected to the cult is manifested only in the interior, then you are very mistaken.
 



Without unnecessary movements
The start of the engine using an electronic card is not a curiosity, but almost all such machines have a starter button. She is not in the Passat. They froze blue and red slightly, maybe softer, noer than before, devices, the music sounded, but the engine did not come to life. It turned out that there is no need to perform unnecessary actions. And just drown the key in the nest. That's it, the tachometer arrow shifted from the zero mark.
 

Now I’ll remove the car from the hand brake and go. That's just the usual lever between the seats is not there either. The parking brake is automatic, the button is responsible for it to the left of the steering wheel. One press, and the pads are pressed to the discs. Two are again dissolved.

 
   
The Iron Igesture has no ignition key now, and the castle migrated to the central console

Instead of the usual manual brake controlled by this button, electromechanical automatic


Softly, almost inaudibly rumbling with a two -liter engine, like a satisfied kitty, who bought a fresh fish, the Passat impressively takes me out of the capital. It seems that another half an hour of such a ride, and the web of laziness is firmly spitting me on the arms and legs. Well, I do not! Under the hood, after all, 150 forces, under the right hand, the lever of a new 6-speed machine. Well, show what you are capable of!
 



Soft breeze instead of a whirlwind
On paper, 150-horsepower 2.0FSI is 0.3 C faster than the previous generation of the Passat-1,8T (the so-called B5) when overclocking to a hundred. Maybe this is how it is, but at the wheel it seems that somewhere in the bowels of the machine gun there were a good three dozen horsepower. This is probably because the car was wrapped in an impenetrable layer of sound insulation. The Passat is perceived by a kind of light breeze. Previously, the 1.8T motor, thanks to turbocharging, provided a noticeable pickup after 3,500 rpm. The current 2-liter four, driven into the framework of Euro IV, is far from so exciting.
 

It is necessary to convert the automatic transmission selector into mode S so that the Passat responds a little faster to pressing the gas, a little further allowed to climb the tachometer arrow. But the previous one, so kind to my heart, is still not in the mention of my heart. The smoothness of switching and impressiveness are its new values.

However, after all, sport is different. You will not scold Styer for the inability to run the whole distance with one jerk. The main thing is that he will reach the finish line faster. So I unexpectedly found the speedometer arrow at 160. Moreover, even on an uneven road, the car almost does not swing, perfectly holds the straight line and does not force me to strain. Still, the left row was released early. And then, having dropped up to 90 in anticipation, while the truck removes home, it seems that you have time to eat pizza until the moment when this melancholy will again gain the previous speed.
 

However, now I will give him the opportunity to rehabilitate himself. A few open, but cool, with height changes, turns on the concrete near Moscow, a good handling exam. I was sure that the Passat would cope with the task perfectly. And he really managed. Only again he showed a completely different character that was not characteristic of him before.
 



There is a slope on the turn, the concrete at the cheeks
Built on the elongated golf v, the newcomer body became 57% tougher than the previous one. The front suspension was left fundamentally by the same McEferson. But if earlier there were aluminum only levers, now for even more reducing the unsuccessful masses of the sleeve of stabilizers, silent blocks, a subframe and a number of parts were also made of winged metal. But the rear suspension has become completely different. Instead of the transverse beam, a four -lever structure was used, in theory contributing to the better handling in vihi, even on uneven roads. And finally, the wheels are now more for inch, and the force on the steering wheel regulates the new electric motor. Sportsman?
 

One, second, third to each fossa is a familiar turn, and the car still calmly cuts the turn behind the turn, as if not noticing the irregularities at an ever-increasing speed. It feels like no excitement again. Unless the rolls seem to be a little more than the predecessor in the same turns. And according to the speedometer, I, it turns out, never dropped below 90 km/h. Moreover, having overdo it at a speed, B6 also safely begins to slide the front wheels out of turn. Demolition develops very slowly. I am no longer zealous with gas, and the passat obediently enters the turn. It seems that the work of ESP (it is now present even in the database) you don’t notice at all, but this boot has already managed to gently slow down the wheels inside the turn.
 

I can turn off the electronics and make the car blacken black marks on the asphalt. But, believe me, I don't want to. Another car is in nature and that's it.



How do you like it?
 
The blue B5 has just gone forward rapidly dropped speed. Not noticing the continuous along the roadside, he shifted to the right, let me go forward and holds on to a parallel course. His driver is clearly trying to consider our car. And I don't mind. Optics, body lines, wheels are only similar at first glance. In fact, completely different. Let the machine envy the machine 62 mm longer and 74 mm wider, is admired by chrome on the radiator grille. I know that the sixth is like a manager who has reached those heights when the bosses already through his fingers look at his free suit from Versace, opposed to the corporate-strict Hugo boss.
 

But whether the fellow traveler liked our silver newcomer, I'm not sure. He rushed forward quickly again. Well, let it fly. He still seems to have a lot to achieve a lot. Learning to keep up everywhere, not in a hurry anywhere. At the forefront to put comfort and safety and grow to such a passat, albeit outwardly more frivolous than before, but more than ever comfortable and safe. Why not sure? The financial bar is painfully high.
 

For our most generously equipped highline, they ask for $ 38,500. Almost the same money costs Kamri-V6 a much larger business class car. And the competitors of Passat Mazda-6, Ansis, an example, are because the leaders of the class that their sellers in Russia do not jump above their heads and ask for cars in optimal equipment of about $ 30 thousand. So it turns out that if the first B6 so far with a bang is grabbing wealthy lovers of trendy novelties, then what will happen with the popularity of the car in two to three years, alas, a big question.
    
Not one highlight

The new Passat is supplied with three levels of equipment with two gasoline and two diesel engines. The price of Passat-1,6 (102 hp) starts at $ 24,518, and for 2-liter with $ 28 550. The basic trendy air conditioner, 6 pillows, ABS, ESP, front windows, heated mirrors, windshield heating, heated glass and front seats. The optimal, in our opinion, comfort-2.0 requires $ 29,490. It is interesting, first of all, more convenient, trimmed with velor, chromeglastic glasses of glasses, electric drive of a driver's seat and glass windows. The most aristocratic highline: 16-inch cast discs, climate, cruise control, board comprehensive, leather decoration of the cabin and price of at least $ 31,740 with mechanics and $ 33,920 with an automatic machine.

Those cars that dealers already have, as a rule, are painted with metallic, equipped with a stereo system and a number of options. And cost $ 3640 thousand. In addition, a new 2,0-turbo gasoline engine of 200 liters should appear in the fall. p., and at the beginning of next year, 250-horsepower 3.2V6.
 
PER

Spacious, convenient, visually rich interior, comfortable suspension, rather generous basic equipment, excellent passive safety, unobtrusive ESP, good sound insulation
AGAINST

Mediocre (especially at speeds above 120130 km/h) the motorcycle engine and slow automatic transmission, high price
 
Volkswagen Passat 2.0 FSI

common data
 
Body, number of places/doors
Sedan, 5/4
 
Equipped mass, kg
1389 (1420)
 
Length x width x height, mm
4765x1820x1472
 
Base, mm
2709
 
Speed, km/h
213 (208)
 
Acceleration time 0100 km/h, with
9.4 (10.2)
 
Fuel consumption, l/100 km highway/city
6.6/11.5 (6.6/12.8)
 

Engine
 
Working volume, SMZ
1984
 
Power, L.S. at rpm
150/6000
 
Torque, kgsm at rpm
20.4/3500
 

Chassis
 
Drive unit
On the front wheels
 
Transmission
6-speed mechanical (automatic)
 
Suspension:
Independent, with stabilizers of anti -resistance stability
 
front
Type McEzerson
 
behind
Mollycent
 
Steering
rhealenic type with hydraulic power steering
 
Brakes
disk, in front ventilated
 
Tires
215/55 R16
 

Car
0.36 $/km
 
 
Alexey Sergeev, photo of Maxim Goncharov
 
 

Source: Magazine buy a car [13/2005]