Erm, well, I'm just about to spend £19k of someone else's money on a brand new car. I'm going to be spending several hours a day in it over the next few years, so I'm going to get what I want.
If it were me buying a car for under £2k, I wouldn't give a f*ck, but, as I have a free choice, then why not worry about colour?
No cash option. Has to be German. Even with a cash option, the 159 looks spectacularly poor value - a Passat 2.0TDI Sport comes in at about the same price as the base spec. 159 JTD, ffs.
VW pricing has made most other semi-premium brand pricing look very expensive these days - car for car they're now the same price, or slightly cheaper than, a Mondeo.
I didn't say the Passat looks better, you c*ck ;-)
It 'looks better value' - which it does, the 2.0TDI SE is over £1.5k cheaper than a base 159.
The 156 was cheaper than the B5 Passat......
German, as in, made in Germany. Yes, I can probably get an Audi, but, an A4 specced the same as a B6 Passat is about £3k more expensive. And smaller.
For the same price as a B6 Passat all I'd get would be an A3. Which is just an expensive MkV Golf.
No, I'm not a convert. But, as diesel lumps go, it's a good one. Worth trading an SE spec 1.9 for an S spec 2.0? - dunno - I need to find an S spec on a forecourt to compare.
Erm, no. As I've said, I can have something German or something else that's German. Without paying silly money to top things up myself, I can have a Golf or a Passat. The Jetta isn't on the list :-(
No. Not even slightly. The old B5, maybe, but the B6 is a *very* different beast. The Superb still uses the old TDI lumps for a start.
Well, both get semi auto climate, the SE has a slight audio upgrade and rear electric windows. What I'm more concerned about are the things that make the cabin a nicer place to sit - like the roller shutter blinds over the cubby holes and stuff. The S appears to have gaping holes where the SE has the nifty little shutters. It does make a difference to the whole feel of the car. However, I'd like the 2.0 and 6 speed box, so I may well be persuaded.
You can set the temperature, but it doesn't do all the funky things with the vents and servos that the old Climatronic did. Fan speed and vents have to be manually set by the driver.
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