R36 Road Test/ Reviews

[Deedub68]

Hmm really, i saw more mercs and BMs doing most of the taxi work....

But it's true Passats tend to be repmobiles in Europe. Passat 4 motion vehicles tend to make up most of the rep fleet for my parent company in Spain.

Deedub

[Cro]

Found another one, this time from Switzerland.
I think they like it

http://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.bluewin.ch/de/index.php/61,47256/VW_Passat_R36/&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=10&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dpassat%2Br36%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26newwindow%3D1%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN%26as_qdr%3Dd

[Wyatt]

Good find Cro. It was a bit of a hard read, but this translation helped me put the pieces together.

Overall, it does look pretty good.

[Steve]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=236pxwyY6Qc

If that's what I think it is... I'm impressed!

[Deedub68]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=236pxwyY6Qc

If that's what I think it is... I'm impressed!

Crikey! Ohhhh to have Autobahn's in Adelaide...

There will be no small amount of satisfaction from blowing away some neanderthal in a HSV V8

Look at the odo: this guy has 12,000km on the clock already!

deedub

[Steve]

I can't be certain that is is an R36, but who knows. It might be... I think I see a gear shift paddle behind the steering wheel. Hard to tell for sure, though.

I get to enjoy the freeway to the hills every day...

[Wyatt]

That's pretty impressive stuff. It's right on the 5.6-5.8 sec 0-100 kph that it's claimed to do.

[Cro]

Unless they have retrofitted the steering wheel, that is the R36

[Vene]

Looks legit to me.......not long to go before we'd get some hands on reviews in Oz. Looking forward to it! Downside is fuel cost is nudging at $1.70pltr, very very lame!!!

[Deedub68]

I can't be certain that is is an R36, but who knows. It might be... I think I see a gear shift paddle behind the steering wheel. Hard to tell for sure, though.

I get to enjoy the freeway to the hills every day...

I got busted for speeding on the downtrack a couple of weeks back next to the toll gate. If that wasn't bad enough it was in the Missus' 1.8l Lancer...

[Steve]

Yeah everyone flies past the toll gate... they get angry at me for slowing to 80 at the 80 sign and 60 at the 60 sign... and for not going 100 from the traffic lights. I just plant the right foot at the 100 sign and leave them behind...

[Deedub68]

Could this possibly be a stock R36 exhaust note...?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETM_PsLwOYk&NR=1

Oh please...let it be so...

deedub

[Wyatt]

To me this looks like the R36 Design Study, which comes with a different exhaust system ... "The 300-hp, 3.6-liter V6 remains, but the stock exhaust has been upgraded with a new cat-back unit sporting larger tailpipes."

[Cro]

I found the R36 noises on the VW Individual Site about 12 months ago, I know I posted it on a VW forum...I just can't remember if it was this one or Vortex...
Anyway, go here:

http://www.volkswagen.de/vwcms_publish/vwcms/master_public/virtualmaster/de3/unternehmen/konzern/individual/fahrzeugkonzepte/produktmarke_r.html

Skip the intro, click on R36 Preview watch the commercial and then click Sound 1 then 2 then 3.
Sound 1 = Engine Start + Rev in neutral
Sound 2 = Acceleration
Sound 3 = High speed flyby

I love Sound 2 the best, it sounds blown (supercharged) because of the DSG whine and dare I say it sounds like a V8 with the deep burble from the exhaust

[Steve]

This is a bit dodgy:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3KWPe0Q_63E