Volkswagen Passat 1.8 TSI Road Test

More power and punch than the old model
Text and photos by Amery Reuben, Powered by SGCarMart.com

Last year, when we drove the 2-litre Passat FSI, we were relatively impressed with the level of comfort it had to offer as a refined cruiser. It lacked power, and nothing much was left to our imagination with the car’s up-front nature. It did offer us something a little different though.

Now, they’ve replaced the aforementioned, workhorse 2-litre powerplant that we have all come to know of in the Beetle and Golf, in the form of a new 1.8-litre TSI turbo. Being the smaller brother to the bigger 2-litre TFSI, it puts out less torque and power. Don’t confuse this TSI for that of the 1.4, turbo-supercharged variant in the Golf GT though, for this new engine does not come with the latter.

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