Test Drive Volkswagen Passat Alltrack since 2012 Wagon

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We test the wedding wagon VW AllTrack.

The recipe for the creation of oscillate versions of family universal versions is quite simple, and it has already been used for more than once when developing all sorts of scouts, cross and alrhroadov. The usual view of the car around the perimeter is protected by 5-7 centimeters of non-colored plastic, and contrasting lining are mounted on the most valuable bumper parts. Plus a couple of new nameplates and the all-weather wagon is ready. The new all-stroke from Volkswagen is built exactly by the same scheme.

Attentive reader will surely remember our story about the sedan and the wagon VW Passat seventh generation. Therefore, we will not stop in detail on the exterior of Passat Alltrack. Moreover, from three steps, a regular wagon from osculus is no longer distinguished. But since the spacious lounge and a spacious trunk, the main advantages of this car, then they should be told about them in more detail.

Actually, every acquaintance of journalists with a car begins precisely from the trunk bag something to put somewhere. And in the AllTrack with this full order: you open the door and here it is a burgher happiness of 588-1716 liters.

True, you will first have to move your friend on other Volkswagenas and Skodes a curtain covering the compartment from above: if you barely press it on it, it will come up to half, one more easy touch and the curtain hides entirely. And in order not to reach in the bowel at the subsidiary of the hardening things, a movable shelf on the rails is installed in the Alltrack trunk. I pulled behind the handle she moved from his place, let go fixed.

Under the raised floor there is a pump and a set of a paranoid European motorist reflective jacket and first aid kit. At the same time, in Germany, they are still confident that on the all-wheel drive car is not needed. I want to believe that in the Russian configuration it will appear.


On sides lever folding rear seat back


In order to get a flat floor, first you will have to remove the seats of the passenger sofa.

My attention attracted a small lever on the right side of the trunk. Without thinking, I pulled out for him and a piece of the rear bumper fell on my feet. Yes, I didn't read the instruction in vain, in which it is written that you first need to remove the plug and only then put forward the pork. Fortunately, plastic did not suffer. The backbock appearing from the bottom you just need to snap, and you can chain the trailers weighing up to 2.2 tons.

A hill is removed in the reverse order: first we pull over the lever, fix the folded hitch, snapping it in the bowels of the bumper, and insert back the cap. Cool option, but expensive. Yes, and the lid can become trophy of yard pioneers.

Salon VW Passat Alltrack seems to have done Mr. Pedanticity. Here are comfortable seats with memory, a new steering wheel in the Golf style, a color display with navigation. And each detail is adjusted to the micron, and each button in its place. Changes compared to a universal a bit, but a couple of bright details have a slightly freshened interior: AllTrack's decorative aluminum inserts are banging, the climate setting control unit has changed, which is unified with Passat CC on AllTrack. According to rumors, this year the same climate will appear on the usual Passat.

Another difference of the version of the AllTrack from the simple wagon is the presence of the Off Road button on the central tunnel, which activates the helper when descending from the mountain. Otherwise, the usual Passat Variant can be stuffed not worse

Perhaps, ALLTRACK is going otherwise? We start the button with the motor and go towards the Austrian town Elmaau. The route is laid with the Burger Calculation: at first, autoban without high-speed restrictions, then the Alpine Floor to the Orthodox Tracks.

For the Russian market there is only one motor gasoline, two-liter, with turbocharging. He gives 210 horsepower, which with a marks are enough on the highway, and on a broken road. Dynamics The cool arrow on the autobahn failed, but the speedometer for most of the route showed a speed not lower than 150-170 kilometers per hour.

In the cabin at speed quietly, and with any motor a little later I managed to ride also on a two-liter diesel. The noise from the road remains overboard, however, where in Austria will take a really noisy way?

Chassis with Passat AllTrack mechatronic, with active shock absorbers changing rigidity at the driver team. That's just the sports mode of the pendant on Oltrex seemed excess. Not Cesarean is a thing. Shock absorbers become too hard so much that even on a good German autobahn you start feeling every joint. But in a comfortable mode gently, but without a swing.

On the irregularities, the suspension tries to maintain comfort, and the shock absorbers for AllTrack were reconfigured compared to the city universal. But wonders should not be expected: serious pits and cords derive the chassis from equilibrium. And the suspension is also no particularly much different.


AllTrack, like any other modern Passat, can follow the road marking. Moreover, it not only allows a slightly release of the steering wheel in turn, independently holding the correct trajectory, but also prevents the crossing line, if the turn signal has not been turned on, forcing the steering wheel. He does not cut the steering wheel from hand, but the effort creates tangible.

All-wheel drive transmission on Ottreck is built around the Electro-hydraulic Haldex coupling of the Fourth Generation, which is used on Tiguan and other Volkswagen models. Traditionally, most often the car moves on the front drive, moving on the rear wheels only 10 percent of the moment. However, in case of deterioration of road conditions or more active driving, the coupling instantly closes and moves the required amount of thrust to the rear axle, up to 100 percent (if the front wheels suddenly completely disappeared with a coated clutch). There is also an electronic imitation of an interstole blocking front (XDS), which slows down the inner unloaded wheel by throwing an additional moment to the external one.

On the asphalt feel all the delights of this system was difficult, so let's go to the Austrian snow. More precisely, in that porridge, which remained from him. Alltrack rows with all the wheels of confidently eh, there would be a slightly shorter and one could storm and more serious obstacles! Another stopping factor is the Altrack road clearance of 165 millimeters. And this, when taking into account that the soldier wagon for three centimeters is higher than usual!

It is a pity that the notorious Off Road button does not know how to raise the body, like on the luxurious Audi A6 Allroad. Its formal appointment to ensure safety on the descent, but in fact it has rarely uses it. But the iron protection of the crankcase is included in the basic equipment, without it, even on a light off-road it would be completely tight. After all, if you equip alltrack suitable tires, it will easily erupt there, where you will get rid of climbing only on the crossover. Thanks to the stabilization system, which is capable of imitating inter-track locks in diagonal hanging, and a plastic body kit that is not particularly sorry.

However, the elements of the AllTrack, at best, light off-road only with hints on deep puddles and dirt. Because then there are already ownership of Taways.

In Germany, Machines like Oder Strack in a larger post. It is here, then there are garages, of which the muzzles of Volkswagen universal stratum stick out. But the protected Passat Alltrack is more practical!

But on the purchase of such a car in Russia, units are solved. People who tiguan are not suitable in age, and Touareg in the image. Those who want a four-wheel drive car with all frills, but not too crying.

However, it is not easy to find such people in Moscow, and in the cities in beds, those who have about one and a half million rubles per universal car, will choose more suitable SUVs or crossovers for regional roads. Because the price is often the case, only the vertex of the iceberg options, about which in Russia there was not one Titanic.


Alternative
Skoda Superb Combi. The road clearance at Czech is only six millimeters less than at the AllTrack, but otherwise this wagon managed to promote his German colleague. In the asks, the SKDE can be recorded the opportunity to order a more powerful engine V6 3.6, which turns the all-wheel drive universal into a real sports projectile: up to one hundred for 6.6 seconds! True, there is a minus: the price tag for such a version of the SUBERB barn starts from 1.799 million rubles.

Volvo XC70. The Swede will probably climb many thanks to the inner decoration. You can choose leather seats, perforated or with ventilation, plus, there are six types of trim central console. It is worth it all silent, but the Swedes have another ace in the sleeve ground clearance of 210 millimeters. In the Kinetic version, the all-wheel drive car costs from 1.507 million rubles, and the top packs easily pass over two million.

Subaru Outback. Strengths of the Japanese car Low gravity center, symmetrical four-wheel drive and a superbly tuned suspension. And the road clearance will envy many crossovers: 213 millimeters. However, the level of equipment of the outback does not reach competitors, unlike prices that begin with a mark of 1.454 million per version with MCPP and 2.5 engine and reach 2.117 million per version with 3.6.





Technical Specifications Volkswagen Passat Alltrack 2.0 TSI
Engine type gasoline with direct fuel injection and turbocharged
Working volume, see 1984
Max. Power, hp / rpm 210/53006200
Max. Moment, nm / rpm 280/17005200
Drive Type Permanent Full
Transmission robotic six-speed
Front Pendant Independent, Spring, McPherson
Rear suspension independent, spring, multi-type
Brakes Disk Ventilated Front and Disc Rear
Dimensions (DHSHV), mm 4771x1820x1550
Wheel base, mm 2710
Curb weight, kg 1707
Max. Speed, km / h 212
Acceleration 0-100 km / h, from 7.8
Fuel consumption (combo), l / 100 km 8.6
Price, rubles from 1,491 000 rubles
 

A source: Magog Motor [March 2012]