Volkswagen Passat: car review | Martin Love

Beneath its unremarkable exterior, VW’s Passat is bursting with gadgets. So why does everyone think it’s dull?Price £22,320
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Top speed 149mphIn the list of adjectives used to describe Volkswagen’s Passat, the word “boring” crops up a lot. A Passat is a car – it’s not a queue, or an ad break, or a selfie, or Bono. How can it be boring? I’ve spent enough time waiting on the hard shoulder of life to know that being reliable might be boring in a partner, but it’