VW Golf SportWagen: A Special Kind of Love - Wall Street Journal
Someone takes my test car away. But once the cars are gone, I just don’t care—until today, when I was studying what is called the Monroney label, the window sticker, of a 2015 VW Golf SportWagen TDI SEL ($33,955). According to this document the East Coast press fleet’s Tornado... And I thought, perfect: a diesel-powered compact five-door wagon with panoramic sunroof, Fender stereo, dual-clutch six-speed gearbox, or even a six-speed manual. This car is so Hawaiian it might as well spear fish. Island life being fundamentally constrained, you want a car that is compact, nimble and mad versatile. The SportWagen has an SUV-rivaling 66. 5 cubic feet of cargo space, effortlessly available thanks to folding rear seats with redundant, rear-accessible levers. Fueling options are limited on Maui, and the SportWagen’s 35 mpg (EPA average) and 462-mile range make for lots of worry-free motoring around the island. What of the Golf Sportwagen TDI’s legendary lack of pace and acceleration. Press cars live miserable lives, and it pleased me to think one would eventually escape its numskull tormentors and retire to a life of ease in the trade winds. Of course, I had no way of knowing which of Maui’s gray-pony-tailed retired architects from Connecticut would buy this particular SportWagen. Source: www.wsj.com
