W8 Passat wagon now in my garage...gulp....

97prizm said:
I worked at a VW dealership for almost a year. I started two weeks maybe three before dieselgate happened. At one point we had executives come from Chattanooga and show us the "new" Passat built there. I chatted with several executives and highly suggested that they bring over the Amarok but build it here and maybe give it a different name for our market. I had so many customers that said they'd bring cash the second VW offered a pickup truck. From talking with the dealership owners VW is in a weird spot in the USA. VW positioned itself as a more upscale brand but if it goes too upscale or high tech it steps on Audi sales. It was rumored that VW was considering bringing the Seat or Skoda brand to the USA as a more entry level option to VW, but not sure how well that would have gone over. Shoot 12 years ago Dongfeng, and Geely supposedly purchased dealerships with the intention of selling Chinese vehicles in the usa.
Click to expand...
Not sure how Skoda would be more entry level. Skoda is actually preferred by a lot of people in Europe. I owned several, used and new.
 
Some parade laps with a full car at VIR. I'd love to be able to rip it around at full speed just for a few laps. You can hear that sweet exhaust tone in a few places....kind of a deep VR6/Chewbaca sound from the Flowmaster FlowFX straight thrus.

9 qts of HPL Euro 5W40 with about 7K miles/over 1 year in the crankcase.

3f2a1e3c-44c5-4f62-a8f8-a780c8085955-1_all_21640.webp


 
Getting to be Sep. Changed oil at 119K in Feb '24. At 127K now. HPL 5W40. Did a filter change earlier in the year. Should be able to get nearly 2 years/10K mi out of this stuff. Some would say I'm nuts doing a long drain on this weirdo engine and I'm dooned but I'm sure it will be just fine.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom