It is not a high-quality sports car or a powerful luxury saloon that we are showing today facing the autobahn. However, it is certainly not wrong to consider this Volkswagen Passat Variant 1.9 TDI 130 hp 2002 (generation B5 or B5.5, when the restyled version), with more than 275,000 kilometers, a super machine — at best, a war machine...
At least it seems… After 18 years and with that number of kilometers, the unavoidable 1.9 TDI PD (Pumpe-Düse) that the team looks as strong as when it was young.
One of the main responsible for the "dieselization" of Europe, the 1.9 TDI appears here in a more "pull" version of 130 hp — it wouldn't stop here, having had versions of 150 hp and 160 hp.
The Passat Variant 1.9 TDI 130 hp in this TopSpeedGermany video is driven somewhat aggressively, but doesn't seem to complain about the abuse. And its good condition is verifiable when we see the needle on the speedometer reaching almost 210 km/h. A respectable figure — its official top speed is 208 km/h.
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Another detail to note is the apparent serenity with which it travels at very high speeds — it seems to have been made to measure for the autobahn.
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