Hi folks

I've spent the last 18 months or so tossing up my next car, and every road I went down led to the Passat... And I'm happy to say it turns out to be an even better car than I hoped

Just the right amount of power, AWD launch control goodness, and great potential for an awesome audio setup without too much fuss - either coming with 3 way speakers or having provision for them is huge, not real keen on splashing fibreglass and epoxy on the pillars and dash! Plus being a European sedan with sturdy steel seat backs in the rear along with a skipass makes the car a prime candidate for infinite baffle subs.

I've got two alpine type S 15s under my bed gathering dust, but not for much longer! Should have a manifold whipped up in the coming days to mount then push-pull and slot loaded. I'll likely continue that line of thought in the audio forum soon.

I've managed to cram in a set of scanspeak aluminium cone illuminators into the doors in 3d printed adaptors with integrated midrange enclosures housing a set of scanspeak disco 3.5" fullrange drivers, and a pair of scanspeak illuminator 3/4" tweets in roughly the OEM location. Rns510 coded to line out feeding a minidsp c-dsp 6x8 along with a SMSL USB spdif card to stream lossless audio from my phone. Very early days yet, we'll talk more about this later.

Oh, and price was a big factor with the Passat. Certainly wasn't cheap 5-6 years ago when new, yet is still a good 5 grand cheaper than a similar vintage rexxie or liberty 6/turbo. Coming from a 4th Gen legacy wagon I just don't like the newer models at all (the fool's went and made a "NMS" for the whole world, not just the poor seppo's). And the rex, sorry I just didn't want to be a rex driver no, I'll take the cheaper, vastly better equipped German made sleeper that doesn't get any of the wrong attention


Anyhow,

Cheers