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Flash forward to now, and my MK7.5 GSW 6MT 4motion has been my favorite car i’ve ever owned, with the exception of my B5 A4. Never thought i’d be back in another shitty german car, let alone love it as much as I have.
28k miles, paid off this month, APR stage 1 91 (~250hp/290tq) and slowly trying to make it a bit more ‘Estate-ly’ like the golf r Estate wagon we don’t get here.
Not bad at all for a VW POS.
Copped some Bilstein B14’s. Install in the next couple of weeks.
Love it! I’ve been loving my MK6 GTI 6MT but I’m to the point where I want a bigger wagon now with looking at kids, having a dog, going camping. I feel this is on the smaller side of what I want. It’s just slim pickings on anything I can find that I’m okay with.
Fixed before Biden shows up asking to ride shotty in your new wagon…
Hahaha… Yep, that was terrible. Well played.
There is rumors floating around the bmw world that the US may get a G81 M3 Touring. I doubt it but who the hell knows.
If scrolling quickly, the VW wagon looks like a Honda minivan. 
Hp > looks, so it must be fun.
As someone with kids,a dog and goes camping, you don’t need a wagon.
Buy a small utility trailer, and/or a vehicle with 3 row seating.
2 rows of seating is fine if your kids are not going to have friends. You will a few years to work out what you want.
The Honda minivan cut deep and was enough for me to get the Bilstein B14 kit installed. About 250 miles in, and a fresh alignment this AM. Smitten.
I know nothing about them (Buick Regal Tour X) but there’s one of these in our neighbor hood that I see all the time and it’s a good looking wagon.
Absolutely love how this look. I’d love one myself but I still feel it’s a bit small for a car seat in the back facing backwards that it would require the passenger seat to slide forward slightly. Maybe I’m wrong. They are about the same amount of room as a GTI, right? Still love it!!
I’ve seen these as well and considered one but have a really hard time since I’m extremely anti- GM anything really… Other than say a C7, C8, ZL1 Camaro. I think they really look nice.
I’m also a really big fan of the new Volvo wagons. The V60 looks so sick! I was always a fan of the squared body wagons they had but this is sweet.
I came in here to just post about the V60. Co-worker of mine just purchased one and it looks absolutely amazing in person. Such a big bodied wagon and yet so sleek.
The Buick Regal is a re-badged European built (Germany) Opel. Car feels extremely solid. I like the AWD and wish it had the V6 and a manual.
Yeah, I was surprised to see it only offered with the 2.0 turbo. 250hp/295tq is probably more than enough for a typical buyer, but a typical buyer would much rather see “V6” instead of “4 cyl” even if that 4 banger is putting out V6 numbers with a little forced induction.
Agree with a tune you could probably get 300/300. The 3.6 that the insignia GS or Holden Commodore get would give you the 300+ hp window label people would be drawn to.
Most people prefer V6 power delivery over a turbo 4 as well. I loved the 2.0tsi in my VW CC, but the one place it suffered was pulling out into traffic from a dead stop at an intersection. You’d get on it and there was that moment of turbo lag, followed by boost, followed by overwhelming the front tires and the traction control kicking it. You don’t have that issue with a V6’s flat torque curve. At least it’s less of an issue with AWD, and probably even less of an issue for Buick drivers since 95% have probably never touched the back of their gas pedal to the floor mat before.
I went back to look at the van I thought of.
It did have 1000hp, and required not really looking at your pic.
Yep, same MQB platform and wheelbase as a base golf/gti/r, but the wagon has an addt’l ~1ft added to the trunk. Otherwise, identical.
It does make hot swapping parts on the MQB platform super fun. I have low mileage golf R brakes on the bench that just literally bolt right up. Pumped.
Sleeperrrrrrr
Inside the S73 T’s front end was a massive hand-built 48-valve M120 aluminum V12 engine, bored out from the standard 6.0-liter configuration to a whopping 7.3 liters—same as AMG did later that decade when it supplied a 555-hp version of that very engine for the Pagani Zonda S 7.3 (and also the Mercedes-Benz SL 73 AMG convertible, an 85-car run with the largest engine ever put in a production Benz).
Do you have the Pano sunroof on your VW? Wasn’t sure what year you have. I’m currently looking at the Alltrack SE or SEL and I’ve been hearing that a fair amount of them have leak issues with the pano sunroof.
MT 4motion GSW with slicktop. I would avoid the pano IMO.
