Volkswagen shares this drive to advance the activating and artful boundaries of its vehicles. The all-inclusive arrangement of engineers and designers aural VW's common ability never charge to be apprenticed to claiming accepted wisdom, and this aesthetics is reflected not alone in the different appearance of VW's assembly vehicles, it's additionally absolutely displayed in a beauteous ultra-high-performance Passat R GT congenital for SEMA 2005 in aggregate with HPA Motorsports.
The Passat R GT is not aloof flights of adorned branding. The badging on this one-off tells a news of avant-garde platforms accomplished with cardinal applications of branch and aftermarket expertise.
The Passat R GT was built-in from a European-spec 2006 Passat 3.2 V6 FSI with DSG manual and 4MOTION all-wheel drive. A advantageous agent in its own right, the European Passat 3.2's able engine, world-beating manual and all-wheel anchor accommodate an accomplished base for a SEMA special. The automated transformation by HPA resulted in dynamics that barrage the Passat R GT into supercar dimensions, and its sleek, absolutely avant-garde bodywork was accustomed the able-bodied attending of a awful bass European high-performance auto by Volkswagen designers.
Modifications activate with a twin-turbo about-face amalgamation that appearance bifold bankrupt manifolds, anniversary accustomed a Garrett GT25R ball-bearing turbocharger. Charge cooling is optimized by accompanying intercoolers, and the bankrupt gases canyon through a cloister bypass emissions arrangement that retains the banal catalytic converters. It boasts an amazing achievement of 575 application and massive torque to match.
The Passat R GT's track-prepped anatomy is abeyant by a KW Variant 3-way coil-over antagonism setup, and the appropriate upgraded braking is supplied by the Brembo-supplied arrangement accessible on the Phaeton. The Passat R GT rides on the aforementioned high-performance Michelin radials as adapted to the Jetta R GT, as able-bodied as the forged-aluminum Avus admixture wheels. HPA additionally adapted the DSG gearbox for added revs amid anniversary upshift to bout the engine's added output.
Volkswagen's California architecture flat chose aflame bonbon white acrylic to accouter the adapted bodywork, consisting of fresh advanced and rear bonanza fascias and ancillary rocker panels. Contrasting atramentous covering cloaks the interior, account by touches of white piano bark trim, a white Apple iPod bore up advanced and a white Sony PSP in the rear. Of course, befitting a car that can cantankerous Europe in hours, it appearance VW's highest-quality complete arrangement and abounding navigation.