[s-cars] 08 VW Passant 2.0 T .....sucks in any amount of snow!

[john cléirigh]

The '03 Passat is a B5 platform car, and I think it got the "facelift" 
at the same time the A4s did.  You're right about the V6 being the 2.8 
Audi engine and not the VR6 -- 4motion in these cars is a torsen-based 
quattro lifted from the Audi line.

I went rounds and rounds over buying a Passat wagon or an Avant when I 
was searching for what eventually led me to my current UrS.  Considering 
the bang for the buck, I like my choice.

I discovered this past December, here in Boulder, that even this car 
could not find traction with bald Dunlop SP A2s at slicked-over 
intersections.  Swapped on the skinny Alpins with 2 seasons under their 
belt, and it was a night and day difference.  Oh, ad the diff lock helps 
me none when making a really slow left hand turn.  ;-)  I need to go to 
ice driving school!!

john

David Forgie wrote:
> James:  If I remember correctly, I believe that the 2003 generation of Passat was very much an Audi under the skin (sized somewhere between an A4 and A6) and the Fourmotion system was really the latest  (current at the time) version of quattro (not Haldex).
>
> I think the V6s were Audi V6s (not VR6s) but the V8 was a W8 VW.  I know I saw a Passat wagon with both W8 and Fourmotion.  I was interested but the W8 scared me (maintenance wise).
>
> Dave F.
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