• Don't buy a Passat. You don't want to make the same mistake twice and buy another front wheel drive estate car with a chassis approaching the limits of its abilities.
    RWD and V8. You know it makes sense. (For a very specific value of sense)

  • Don't buy a Passat. You don't want to make the same mistake twice and buy another front wheel drive estate car with a chassis approaching the limits of its abilities.

    RWD and V8. You know it makes sense. (For a very specific value of sense)

    You're suggesting that the the 850, a sub eight minute Nurburgring car (see Tim Williams YouTube vids) has a poor chassis?

    The Passat uses a full time four wheel drive system, and whilst it isn't the last word in "because racecar" is meant to be pretty fast and grippy.

    Anyway- the Mrs doesn't like the idea of a new car so it looks like I'll dump another ten grand into the Volvo.

  • Two words. Torque steer.
    You own a Porsche now, so you can surely appreciate the step change in design and engineering between something intended from the outset to be very very fast, and something intended to be cheap and adequate that has been souped up to fill a market gap.

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