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I've spent the last 18 months or so tossing up my next car, and every road I went down led to the Passat... And I'm happy to say it turns out to be an even better car than I hoped
Just the right amount of power, AWD launch control goodness, and great potential for an awesome audio setup without too much fuss - either coming with 3 way speakers or having provision for them is huge, not real keen on splashing fibreglass and epoxy on the pillars and dash! Plus being a European sedan with sturdy steel seat backs in the rear along with a skipass makes the car a prime candidate for infinite baffle subs.
I've got two alpine type S 15s under my bed gathering dust, but not for much longer! Should have a manifold whipped up in the coming days to mount then push-pull and slot loaded. I'll likely continue that line of thought in the audio forum soon.
I've managed to cram in a set of scanspeak aluminium cone illuminators into the doors in 3d printed adaptors with integrated midrange enclosures housing a set of scanspeak disco 3.5" fullrange drivers, and a pair of scanspeak illuminator 3/4" tweets in roughly the OEM location. Rns510 coded to line out feeding a minidsp c-dsp 6x8 along with a SMSL USB spdif card to stream lossless audio from my phone. Very early days yet, we'll talk more about this later.
Oh, and price was a big factor with the Passat. Certainly wasn't cheap 5-6 years ago when new, yet is still a good 5 grand cheaper than a similar vintage rexxie or liberty 6/turbo. Coming from a 4th Gen legacy wagon I just don't like the newer models at all (the fool's went and made a "NMS" for the whole world, not just the poor seppo's). And the rex, sorry I just didn't want to be a rex driver
no, I'll take the cheaper, vastly better equipped German made sleeper that doesn't get any of the wrong attention 
Anyhow,
Cheers
I've spent the last 18 months or so tossing up my next car, and every road I went down led to the Passat... And I'm happy to say it turns out to be an even better car than I hoped
Just the right amount of power, AWD launch control goodness, and great potential for an awesome audio setup without too much fuss - either coming with 3 way speakers or having provision for them is huge, not real keen on splashing fibreglass and epoxy on the pillars and dash! Plus being a European sedan with sturdy steel seat backs in the rear along with a skipass makes the car a prime candidate for infinite baffle subs.
I've got two alpine type S 15s under my bed gathering dust, but not for much longer! Should have a manifold whipped up in the coming days to mount then push-pull and slot loaded. I'll likely continue that line of thought in the audio forum soon.
I've managed to cram in a set of scanspeak aluminium cone illuminators into the doors in 3d printed adaptors with integrated midrange enclosures housing a set of scanspeak disco 3.5" fullrange drivers, and a pair of scanspeak illuminator 3/4" tweets in roughly the OEM location. Rns510 coded to line out feeding a minidsp c-dsp 6x8 along with a SMSL USB spdif card to stream lossless audio from my phone. Very early days yet, we'll talk more about this later.
Oh, and price was a big factor with the Passat. Certainly wasn't cheap 5-6 years ago when new, yet is still a good 5 grand cheaper than a similar vintage rexxie or liberty 6/turbo. Coming from a 4th Gen legacy wagon I just don't like the newer models at all (the fool's went and made a "NMS" for the whole world, not just the poor seppo's). And the rex, sorry I just didn't want to be a rex driver
no, I'll take the cheaper, vastly better equipped German made sleeper that doesn't get any of the wrong attention Anyhow,
Cheers
