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Sedans Volkswagen Passat Volkswagen TDI Models: Prices Paid & Buying Experience
831 messages, Last post on Nov 18, 2009 at 9:08 AM
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Replying to: longo2 (Oct 22, 2009 6:07 pm) VW 8 out of possible 20 8 and 13 out of a possible 20 what? Colored in circles? 2.6 problems per vehicle for VW 1.5 problems per vehicle for Hyundai
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Replying to: moparbad (Oct 23, 2009 7:46 am) 0 score being a vehicle that's just been crushed? |
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Replying to: maigre (Oct 22, 2009 6:41 pm) it in traffic. Have an 07 Accord with 150k that has been absolutely bulletproof, but love the way the TDI drives and the mileage. Really need and automatic but the reliability of the DSG makes me nervous. What are peoples thoughts? Get the TDI with 6spd, try the DSG, or stay with another Accord?
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Replying to: kingsfan2 (Oct 23, 2009 5:47 pm) Above is a nifty .gov comparo. You can customize the C/H miles percentages, fuel costs etc. Upshot: you save $1,778 per year or $148 per mo. There is no doubt in my mind the 07 Accord will easily do you 300k, if not 400k. So being as how you already have/own the Accord: 1. Accord A/T (I presume) 2. TDI, manual 6 sp 3. TDI DSG 6 spd.
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Replying to: rcarr7 (Oct 23, 2009 9:34 pm) You already have a ton of miles on your Accord, so keeping it for another year won't make that much differece on a trade in. (and as he points out, you save a lot of money each month by keeping it) By then the total re-designed Jetta TDI's will be out in 2011. Or if you got real lucky, Honda will get off their a$$ and bring over their 2.2 ltr Diesel Accord they have had running around Europe for years.
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Replying to: longo2 (Oct 24, 2009 9:27 am)  See more Car Pictures at CarSpace.com I have read on Euro TDI forums that this 2.2 Diesel gets about the same mpg's as the VW TDI. Seems it didn't pass the emmisions tests for the U.S. in a/t form. In Standard transmission, however it did. Honda packed it up, went home in a huff and I haven't heard a peep of gossip, news, speculation or hints of it coming to North America since all the Hoopla in 2007 when they brought over the TDI test cars. If the rest of the Auto Builders are noticing that VW's TDI's are hot items in N.A. we should be seeing some clues soon. |
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Replying to: longo2 (Oct 24, 2009 2:35 pm) Just a quick snapshot shows (gassers) VW Jetta to be app $3,000 cheaper than a comparable Honda Accord.. When I purchasted a 03 VW Jetta TDI, there was considerable angst and criticism with a sub $300. premium over a turbo gasser Jetta !!?? Fast forward to 2009/2010 time frame and Edmunds.com (last I checked) showed the TDI to have up to $3,500 over the 1.8 T Jetta. Current TMV price difference is $2,300. (generic- not indepth)
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Replying to: rcarr7 (Oct 24, 2009 3:07 pm) Now don't you wish you had bought an extra 03' as a hedge against the crazie$ out there now? |
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Replying to: rcarr7 (Oct 24, 2009 3:07 pm) (true market value) is an elusive number when you are dealing with VW on a TDI. Right now they pretty much have this diesel car market all to themselves. I know there are a couple of other options, but all upscale' from the Jetta, Golf and Beetle. It's a market that is ripe for Ford, (they already have a couple of great little diesels in Europe), Honda, if they want to jump in with their already proven 2.2 and even Hyundai is (gossip alert) working on a diesel Elantra. Til then it seems VW is the only game in town for a moderately priced high MPG diesel vehicle, so TMV is tough to get on the table at buying time. . In the U.S.A. the auto makers are all fighting a diesel head wind in the market...iffy availability of ULSD (could only find 2 places in Helena Montana on the trip home, and a big truck stop in New Mexico where everybody thought I was crazy when I filled up the Jetta at the diesel pump) and for some strange reason, some sort of a Diesel is 'Anti American' feeling. I have made the rounds of dealerships and looked at the shrunken list of options now available and the rising M$RP's on Jettas, decided to buy a low mileage 2006 Jetta with DSG and full Option 2 package, and call it done.
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Last week I paid a deposit for a 2010 VW Golf TDI, 2DR, MT, grey metallic, with Emlich VW in Denver. Purchase price was MSPR ($23,388) which included cold weather package and car mat options. Reminder that Bluetooth is now mandatory for every TDI. Had to pay the usual Denver area VW handling fee of $399 (ouch) for a total of $23,787 (that figure does not include regional sales tax). Car should eta 1st week of December. In my discussions with various VW dealers, not a lot of Golf TDIs' will be arriving in Colorado in 2009. Not an issue of negotiating a fair price as much as trying to find the car you want at this early date. Negotiated over the internet, relatively painless experience. |
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