Ever get the idea that Volkswagen likes to take really long vacations before getting to work on its next car? The last time these guys lobbed a Passat over the Atlantic, teenagers were tubthumping along to Chumbawamba, Monica Lewinsky was hitting her head on the underside of a desk, and Leonardo DiCaprio was the king of the world. Maybe Volkswagen figures its cars are so unique, innovative, and gosh-darn special that they don't need to be replaced.There's some truth to that. The Passat has always been one to go its own way, with its manual transmissions, turbochargers, station wagons, all-wheel-drive, 8-cylinder engines arranged in the shape of a W, key-operated windows, and air-conditioned gloveboxes keeping things interesting. For anyone fed up with the cornucopia of sedate sedans from the Far East and Near West, VW was the only game around.But by 2005, the somewhat small and slow Passat had fallen out of favor. The 2006 is here to address that, with acres of reinvented machinery riding atop a new platform - one that severed its former ties to the Audi family. News exists on nearly every engineering front, and several versions got lost in the model reshuffling. In other words, everything past the Passat's familiar appearance really does suggest eight years worth of work.
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