So stop complaining, spoiled car journalists, we hear you thinking. And indeed, the measurement is a pleasant surprise: 167.5 hp and 300 Nm. Yes, also 50 Nm more than the factory promises. Now we have only written a few times that you sometimes wish for a bit more power abroad. In the Netherlands, the car’s performance is indeed more than sufficient. And we maintain that the R-Line front bumper simply promises more than what the Passat shows when strapped in on the rollers at Beek Autoracing. A neighbor of one of the editors recently asked: “Is it a real R?” 1.5 eTSI must do 150 Nm and 150 hp The 1.5 four-cylinder with cylinder deactivation, turbo and mild hybrid support is therefore certainly not a throttled engine that is only tuned for economy. In the graph we can see very quickly the slight swing that the starter generator at the bottom gives to the crankshaft, although the turbo also kicks in very quickly. At 2,200 rpm we see 300 Nm, the factory specification for the torque is 250 Nm at 1,500 rpm. At 4,000 revolutions per minute of the crankshaft we see the torque curve bend downwards. The power is at a nice high level from 4,600 to 6,000 rpm. Passat in panic on the rollers When the rollers are turned on, the Passat has no idea what is happening to it, and all systems go crazy. That is almost always the case with modern cars: they don’t know where they are and get stressed. It always takes a while before rollers man Ghisbert van Ginhoven can measure such a brand new car properly. But he succeeded, and we are very happy with the result! We already told you about the Passat’s economy in the previous update. We drive 1 in 16.1, including many foreign trips. If we filter that out, the average consumption is 1 in 17.
Source: www.autoweek.nl
