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
MPG up to 76.3
Top speed 149mph

In 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's not in a car. It's driving, not dating. The Passat is also practical (yawn), economical (dullsville) and nice to sit in (good grief). When I was young, my mother used to tell me that being bored was just a lack of imagination"