Spotted: 2016 Passat Alltrack Roaming Streets of Phoenix

Aaron Cole
by Aaron Cole

I love you, unicorn.

A TTAC reader spotted this 2016 Volkswagen Passat Alltrack roaming the streets of Phoenix the other day and dutifully reported “What the hell is that?”

This Passat wagon, which is sold overseas, may be the only one in the States. It’s wearing manufacturer tags and likely just had its way with VW’s massive testing circuit in Phoenix.

The Passat Alltrack isn’t really related to our model, instead built on the European MQB platform that ours still isn’t. And the Alltrack has a trio of diesel mills that’ll never make their way to the States anyway. They can even be had with a manual transmission on the German Volkswagen configurator site that I didn’t just spend way too much time on.

The all-wheel drive wagon is, at best, never going to come here. It starts at around $30,000 in Germany.

Nonetheless, the near-unicorn (diesel, brown, wagon) was spotted on the streets in Phoenix — sunroof open and all.

Bless you, Don.



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  • SmallCarsRock SmallCarsRock on Oct 31, 2015

    As mentioned by "derekson", that's not the Alltrack version. Also, in regards to unicorn status, and commenters lamenting that, "we'll never see this in the U.S.", unless dieselgate has changed VW's plans, the U.S. is at least getting the Golf Sportwagen version of the Alltrack. It will of course be 4Motion. However will have the TSI engine vs. the TDI, which was the plan even before the current TDI mess. It remains to be seen if it will be available in brown.

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    • SmallCarsRock SmallCarsRock on Oct 31, 2015

      @Drzhivago138 Agreed. Edited for clarity. The main point is that it's not an Alltrack. I'm actually very interested in the GSW Alltrack. I just hope that the VW crisis plan doesn't see it being cut from a NA introduction.

  • Corey Lewis Corey Lewis on Nov 02, 2015

    Places you definitely need AWD: The dry creek bed which is Phoenix. Actually though the 2.5 days I was there, it rained three times, ha.

  • Corey Lewis Think how dated this 80s design was by 1995!
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  • Merc190 A CB7 Accord with the 5 cylinder
  • MRF 95 T-Bird Daihatsu Copen- A fun Kei sized roadster. Equipped with a 660cc three, a five speed manual and a retractable roof it’s all you need. Subaru Levorg wagon-because not everyone needs a lifted Outback.
  • Merc190 I test drive one of these back in the day with an automatic, just to drive an Alfa, with a Busso no less. Didn't care for the dash design, would be a fun adventure to find some scrapped Lancia Themas or Saab 900's and do some swapping to make car even sweeter. But definitely lose the ground effects.
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