The unused VW Passat station wagon TDI for 257 thousand is not a joke or a mistake, you just have to accept that it was not created yesterday
yesterday | Peter Miller
Photo: H. Margot, published with permission
It sounds like a joke, but it’s a reality, it’s even a car from the first owner, which has no significant defect in terms of its condition or history. It’s just a B6 type, but for that kind of money?
You might remember the VW Passat B8 we showed you a few years ago. It was only two years old at the time and yet it had driven 544,573 km – we’re not kidding, you can still look at it. It was an extreme of its kind and shows what the car can achieve in such a short time. Moreover, it is not a rarity among the offered Passats, we have already seen several cars driving over 200,000 km per year.
In order to have a complete mosaic, we will also show you what a car of the same type may not “drive” for a much longer time. The VW Passat you are looking at now is 14 years old. And in all that time, he drove as many kilometers as the first-mentioned specimen in about a month and a half, even though it is again a station wagon with a diesel engine created for long distances. That’s called a proper contrast…
So it is logically a morally older piece, but not so much. This is a Passat of the B6 generation, since the B7 version was only a facelift of the B-six and the B8 type is still being produced today (the new B9 is still emerging), we are effectively one generation behind. So it is still a car well prepared to overcome long distances, every Passat can do that, especially as a station wagon with a TDI engine. We don’t know why this car didn’t see more intensive use, but the first and only owner chokes that he really only drove it around 2,000 km a year.
It is not a top-of-the-range specification, but the economical 1.9 TDI BlueMotion does not disappoint in times of general high prices. It is a car running on 4 to 5 liters of diesel, even if you don’t want to. And it has decent equipment, there are also electric heated seats and navigation. For driving every day from Frankfurt to Berlin (or soon from Aš to Ostrava?) it is an almost ideal car, so we are only surprised that the owner did not use it for anything like that. The kilometers he traveled cost him dearly in terms of loss of value.
As we already mentioned, the car still drove somehow, only 26,563 km on the odometer in 14 years is almost a mockery for the Passat TDI. It has received regular care, so technically it should be in 1A condition, visually it could benefit from a proper cleaning. One might still expect such a car to be expensive, because almost every used car is expensive these days, and there is at least a good reason for that. But it doesn’t cost that much.
The owner is asking 10,600 euros for it, i.e. about 257,000 CZK. It’s nothing, but what is sold today for that kind of money for used cars? Here you have a Passat TDI with the potential to drive about a million kilometers for pennies, because even if it lost 100 percent of its residual value, we’re talking tens of pennies per kilometer. For efficient transfers, we would like to say, but for the same money, you cannot even buy a basic Fabia with a three-quarter engine 1.0 and minimal equipment. What will you do with it? How? And how much will it cost you? As always, judge for yourself, your taste may be different. In the end, the Passat B6 has never been very handsome, which can turn some people off.
This 14-year-old Passat has been driven so little that it has not been driven to this day. It’s a rarity on the used market, yet it costs quite a bit, even though it’s a decently equipped diesel station wagon. Photo: H. Margot, published with permission
Source: Volkswagen Passat Variant 1.9 TDI BlueMotion, Navi, [email protected]
Petr Miler
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2023-08-06 12:58:14
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