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2012 VW Passat Alltrack Commercial: Pleasure Before Business

This is probably the first commercial we’ve seen this year that can blend the boring B-roll footage of a car simply driving without you noticing. “Pleasure before business.” is the motto by which Volkswagen wants to sell the brand new Passat Alltrack.
The Alltrack should really be just a big, boring bag of reasonableness. But somehow, we laughed out loud when we saw the sweater-wearing manly man drink tea with horse, do a headstand and at the end of it all adjust his tie before going to work.

The Alltrack is a jacked up version of the Passat estate, sitting 165mm off the ground, or 30mm higher than normal. It also has a new front and rear fascias, as well as with plastic wheel arch protection elements.

The range of engines includes two turbocharged, direct-injected petrols, a 1.8-liter TSI that delivers 160 hp and a 2.0-liter TSI that produces 210 hp, as well as two turbodiesels - actually, we are talking about the 140 and 170 hp versions of the 2.0 TDI powerplant.

The two most powerful units come with 4MOTION all-wheels-drive and a dual-clutch transmission as standard, while the 140 hp TDI version can be ordered with the 4MOTION AWD system.
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About the author: Mihnea Radu
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Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida.
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