Were not the MkV and MkVI basically the same, and just VW window dressing there existing a new generation when the MkV did no sell well?
Were not the MkV and MkVI basically the same, and just VW window dressing there existing a new generation when the MkV did no sell well?
Some detail changes, some styling changes, and powertrain option changes...They also introduced some electronic bits that may or may not be available in US/Canada....
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Same platform though? That to me is more like an extensive refresh than a new generation.
MkVI is the best looker of all methinks.
Yeah all of the so called PQ35...
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Soon enough, VW will synergize to the point of having 3 platforms for their 30 brands and 400 vehicles!
Kitdy is excited about this car because it means he can buy a Mark V with the new Mark VI front fascia and a pathetically-defective head gasket.
"Kimi, can you improve on your [race] finish?"
"No. My Finnish is fine; I am from Finland. Do you have any water?"
Oh, I'm sure it'll be good and very possibly better than the outgoing model, altough torsion beam rear suspension for versions under 150bhp is Volkswagen trying to fool us (and they will), and not sure bigger is necessarily better (been driving the XF lately and in our tiny villages and roads it is positively mammoth-like...), but it's just that all those new VW (and there have been quite a lot this year (up, Citygo, Mii, Rapid, Toledo, Golf, Leon, A3,...) feel like variations on a theme. A bit like designed to fill a certain niche in the market not designed because they wanted to make an "automobile".
Apparently the V and VI were quite expensive to build, hence this new clean sheet design after a relatively short lifespan.
Lack of charisma can be fatal.
Visca Catalunya!
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Apparently I was slitghly wrong, it will have two different rear axles, but the torsion beam is limited to versions with 110bhp or less (basically the 1.2 TSi and 1.6 TDi engined cars). In the Leon this limit raises to 150bhp (basically everything except the 1.8 TSi and 2.0 TDI).
Lack of charisma can be fatal.
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