One of colleagues who loves good cars has just test-driven the VW Passat 2.0 last weekend and shared his "stories" with me. He is a die-hard Ford fan having test-driven the Ford Mondeo not once but twice earlier this year. The Mondeo is his top favourite but he was holding back although the price keeps dropping throughout the months. The salesman kept texting messages to him and the last discounted price was slightly below RM180k if I am not mistaken.

After test-driving the VW Passat 2.0, this is now his favourite car. The wife was sitting at the back seat during the test drive. He was impressed not only by the power and performance of the car which he mentioned was either on par or better than the Ford Mondeo, but the interior quality of the Passat. The interior quality of the Passat was said to be much better and nicer than the Mondeo. I have already expected this as I too felt the interior of the Mondeo is too plain and cheap for the price. Similarly, my colleague mentioned the interior of the Mondeo looked cheap next to the Passat.

So there you go. The VW saleswoman was pushing for the sales. Apparently after all the prices and GST are added in, the car's price is close to RM220k which is rather steep. My colleague cheekily said he would be waiting for the car's number plate to reach VW before he would consider buying the car.

I just went to see and touch the new Passat yesterday.  The SA said Apple carplay is supported but VW curiously blocked the used of Navi app (like waze) on the apple carplay mirroring to the headunit.  SA also said Andriod Auto does not have such limitation on the new Passat tough.

If you have a few backup car to use anytime, by all means get a european car. Else, stay away as far as you can. Break down is unavoidable when driving a european car, running cost and maintenance cost for european cars will be much higher. A rule of thumb for european car ownership is must have at least 10% of the new car value in hand at any given time after the warranty period for spare part replacement. E.g. RM200,000 car, must have RM20,000 in hand for sudden breakdown/parts replacement (if you are going back to SC for these).

I think theres a trade in program rebate going in, 8k for non VW, 15k for VW..

the trade in rebate is on top of the 2nd hand car value..?

booked 2.0 passat.

At the moment its VU isn't it.
How to register for VW? I am interested.

Would like to know too

it would be nice if my car got VW number plate

VW is only for Selengor state registered cars only correct? Assuming I do not want to pay extras to bid for specific number.