oilhammer
Certified Volkswagen Nut & Vendor
I am betting yours also get the correct number of pedals, too.
Sure, what plumber wants to pay the hefty options price for the automatic version? Automatics are pretty unheard of in work vehicles here.I am betting yours also get the correct number of pedals, too.
I guess you don't get the NV300 mid-size and NV400 full size family of vans then?There's also the US-market Nissan NV, although that can barely be called a van (seeing how it's basically a previous-generation Titan full-size pickup with a van body), and I almost never see them. (Even the NV200 (although ours is stretched wheelbase, by about 8 inches, with a 2.0 I4 gasser and a CVT) is far more common.)
But wouldn't it be "just right" for many applications? Significantly more room and payload capacity than a small van while still being much more maneuverable than a big van. Being FWD is a serious advantage for camper van applications. The new Sprinter adds FWD versions to the lineup too...I suspect the NV300 will be seen as too niche for the US market - too big to be a small van, too small to be a big van. (I mean, that's the trap the Metris is falling into, really - I'd be unsurprised if the low-roof SWB Sprinter takes almost all of its sales here.)
That's why we have options and choices...
Europe gets the 190PS and the 240PS Passat TDI wagon with 4motion, as well as the 280PS 2.0T, all with DSG only (7-speed for the diesels, 6-speed for the gasser). The 150PS manual 4motion is gone, so if you want to row your own, you end up with FWD.The lady I purchased my 2004 Passat wagon 4mo from was left without a new Volkswagen to purchase in 2014, because the Passat wagon, 4mo or not, was no longer available.
IIRC you even get a manual 1.8T which we don't... And the 1.8T in non-Alltrack Golfs! And Golfs and Passats with torque converter transmissions! And 5-speed manuals instead of 6-speeds!Mind you, we get the Golf 1.8T Alltrack in the US, too.
NGVs don't really have much in the way of tax incentives - I'd say about 15 years ago they were a thing that was being pushed, and some of the American automakers as well as Honda got on that train, but poor fuel availability sunk it.And, oddly, you don't get any of the natural gas powered VW/Audi products.
I'd buy a 1.8T Golf with a manual. I think that's still a nice car. Maybe with an extended warranty.There is literally nothing, NOTHING, at the Volkswagen dealer in the USA that I would be interested in purchasing. Nothing.
Sad because I am their biggest fan.
I feel the same. I might look at the Atlas if it had a TDI, but I don't need that kind of room anymore. I guess it's off the list.There is literally nothing, NOTHING, at the Volkswagen dealer in the USA that I would be interested in purchasing. Nothing.
Sad because I am their biggest fan.
I'd buy a 1.8T Golf with a manual. I think that's still a nice car. Maybe with an extended warranty.
Here they only have low taxes on CNG fuel, and once everybody started using turbocharged engines as the base for their CNG cars, they were getting somewhere. Fuel availablility is really good now, and for when it's not, they still have gasoline tanks...NGVs don't really have much in the way of tax incentives - I'd say about 15 years ago they were a thing that was being pushed, and some of the American automakers as well as Honda got on that train, but poor fuel availability sunk it.