Category: Large Family 
Price Range: £15,150 to £32,780
Large, solid and impressive-looking; quick and agile; economical.
Feels rather big, looks rather plain; horrid electronic parking brake; poor reliability record.
The consummate company car; does everything it's supposed to do, but lacks excitement.
Second-hand values of large family cars are falling faster than ever, though estates are holding their value better than saloons, and diesels holding firmer than petrol models.
Despite the Passat's poor reliability record in recent years, it is still a desirable purchase, however, and the economical TDI CR models should be amongst the more popular versions. Expect to get about 40% of the car's original value after three years/30,000 miles
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wrote on 06 06 2006