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Finally picked up the wife's new toy last night after a 6 month delivey time.

It's a VW Passat R36 Wagon - the new ultimate sleeper. (Well maybe an RS6 is but they cost 4x's as much!)

But it really is a great car and she's already looking forwards to upsetting a few people at the lights. :blink:

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Actually you'll find the R36 is the 3.6L V6 funnily enough. And right now it sounds a whole lot better than the Honda Euro did - but maybe down the track it might need to sound even better still. :blink:

Inside though it sounds brilliant. Best factory sound system I've heard (it has the upgraded sound system though).

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It's a VW Passat R36 Wagon - the new ultimate sleeper. (Well maybe an RS6 is but they cost 4x's as much!)

had an RS6 go me at the lights a couple of weeks back... i didn't bother, but it was pretty fast!

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Actually you'll find the R36 is the 3.6L V6 funnily enough. And right now it sounds a whole lot better than the Honda Euro did - but maybe down the track it might need to sound even better still. :P

Inside though it sounds brilliant. Best factory sound system I've heard (it has the upgraded sound system though).

Oh yeah! Crap it is too.

either way its still cool...hopefully you don't get many warranty issues like the rest of VW's

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