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Originally Posted by tevake View Post
We drove a VW Passat TDI wagon about 2K miles all over England last summer, and it was loaded with four of us plus baggage and got great mileage I'd guess 35+mpg . usually had to stop once or twice to clean the windshield between fill ups.
It took some getting used to the driving characteristics, very little grunt down low revs.
It did very well at highway speeds.

Cheers Richard
Must be a different engine. The US TDI has 236 ft/lbs of torque - tons of grunt down low. What you don't have is a bunch of hp on the top end.
Old 07-07-2011, 09:55 PM
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