Sharan VR6...

[Daz...]

Ok, I know this has probably been covered somewhere else on here before but I couldn't find it on a search 

Am I right in thinking that a Sharan VR6 only has 140bhp as opposed to the Golfs 172bhp (just rough figures  )

A woman at work was thinking of getting a Sharan cos of the VR6 lump but I told her I'd ask what the power of them is cos she may be disappointed if it's less than a Golf 

I have no idea if it's got less power but that's what I have heard...can't remember where tho 

[martinb]

according to my mate (who is a sales manager for vw) the sharan VR6 is 178bhp! he took one in part ex recently but had trouple shifting it cos no one wanted to buy a juicy v6 people carrier, they all wanted dsl's (yawn!)!

[GTI EDITION (aka LTD)]

according to my mate (who is a sales manager for vw) the sharan VR6 is 178bhp! he took one in part ex recently but had trouple shifting it cos no one wanted to buy a juicy v6 people carrier, they all wanted dsl's (yawn!)!

The only Sharan I'd even consider is the TDI as the petrol 2.0 and VR just seem to drink the petrol like there's no tomorrow ( don't know about the 1.8T maybe thats not so bad )
As for the TDI's being sluggish (boring ) I hired one last year in Spain for a week , did a ridiculous amount of driving in the mountains , motorways etc it went like stink and I didn't have to put any extra fuel  other than the full tank it came with .
( 6 speed box as well although I didn't notice for a couple of days until my daughter asked " whats that 6 for ?"   :embarassed:  )

[Mew]

Nice little section of parkers for this kind of stuff:
http://www.parkers.co.uk/choosing/specs/

btw, if you can't be arsed to look it says 174bhp!

[Neaty]

is this the same as the ford galaxy? because from my understading vw bought the idea for the galaxy off vw along with the engines.
plus there is a guy in my street that has the v6 galaxy and i am sure its the vr6! it sounds pretty good!

[DubFan]

The Galaxy and Sharan were a co-operative development as far as I know.
Apparently they also did a 4wd version.

[Neaty]

and to to forget the seat alahambra thing aswell!

how random is that a 4wd vr6 sharan!?

[Daz...]

if you look on the parker website that ben so kindly put the link for on here then it says the Sharan VR6 syncro does 20mpg 

that's an average if im not mistaken so it would probably return about half that when pootling round town and taking the kids on the school run..like so many people do 

[DubFan]

VW used to make a 4wd/syncro Transporter/Camper van in the 80s.

4wd would be useful for getting off a muddy camp site, but can't see why you'd need it in the Tesco car park.

[Neaty]

VW used to make a 4wd/syncro Transporter/Camper van in the 80s.

4wd would be useful for getting off a muddy camp site, but can't see why you'd need it in the Tesco car park.

yea i saw a few of the old skool syncro van things at dub freeze and vw north west!

well u might get a challenging speed bump in tesco car park! u just never know