Volkswagen Test Drive with Nuffnang and Volkswagen at Desa Park City

Several weeks back, I was lucky enough to be one of Nuffnang's invite to the Volkswagen test drive session at Desa Park City.

It was a bright and sunny Saturday mid-morning when I arrived. Participants were split between two sessions for the test drive. I was placed in the second session, but I arrived one session earlier (that's one and a half hour earlier!) out of excitement =P

But thank Gods that I was early because then only did I realised that both my back-up and main camera battery was flat. Totally flat. Hence, I went sulking into Coffee Bean at DPC Waterfront for a drink and to charge them batteries :|

So since I was there early, I get to see how was the event planned out for the day. First, we were told that we only could pick one car to test drive. My choice was the Polo GTI since I've heard that its a car with power, racing power. Since my Proton does not have much power to it, it would have been a nice change of experience.

There were 6 cars available for us bloggers test drive:

• Passat 2.0 CC TSI;
• Passat 1.8;
• Polo 1.2 TSI;
• Polo GTi;
• Golf 1.4 TSI; and
• Jetta 1.4

The good news was,....we were allowed to choose any VW cars that were available on the parking lot to test drive. Just so long, that there's a VW sales person to accompany us and the car is queue-less.

So yes, being the kiasu me (and Jiayeen haha!), I have managed to try on 5 out of 6 of the choices as listed above =D All except the Passat 2.0 CC TSI because I didn't see the car being vacant when I've no car to test drive.

Either that, or I saw it, but I forgot to ask if there was any available sales person who could take me on it for a ride around Desa Park City.

But lemme tell you, even if it's a mere 1.2 TSI Polo, it was good enough to satisfy me since the feel of it was so awesome that I have made this my future dream car to buy. When I have the money.

For all the VW cars equally, the accelerator pedal is very responsive. A slight pressure to it, and you can practically "feel" the car's speed moving at ease. Like without effort, much pressure and even realising it, your driving speed can go up to 120 km/hour!

It really did take some time to get use to the acceleration and break pedal of a Volkswagen car. Not only was the acceleration was really responsive, but the break was as well. Just a slight touch to it, and the whole car comes to a stop. 

It was apparently the car system. Not so good about cars, didn't quite understand how the system works but what I understood from the sales person was: When you have a car with very responsive accelerator, the break must be responsive as well. The break system for a VW car is so good that, in any case that emergency breaks are needed, your car would not skid a few feet in front (the possibility cause of an accident).

I felt like a beginner driver when I first drove the Jetta 1.4. A big car for the first try. The car kept jerking because I wasn't use to both of the said pedals. Kept apologising to the salesman that was sitting beside me for the jerky car. lol

The Passat 1.8 was one luxury car. The interior, to the steering wheels, it was simply smooth and I could feel the awesome-ness of it. Could already imagine how the Passat 2.0 feels like. Maybe I should just beg Jun Lung (my friend) to lend me his dad's car for a test drive. haha!

The interior of one of the car. Possibly the Jetta? Don't quite remember. But definitely not the Passat since the Passat does not have any hand break to it. That I remember because I was asking the salesman, "So, how do I release the car break?" lol - They run on some 'button' hand break system.

And the last car of the day: The Polo GTi.

We were only allowed to drive it around the car park area. And I think out of the rush, I accidentally pressed on some gear buttons on the steering wheel. Hence, the car couldn't move at the speed and feel that it was supposed to be. Not quite a good experience for me. But I think, if I had the money and the chance to purchase a Volkswagen car, I would have choosen something along the range of Golf 1.4 TSI. Comfortable and small enough to be driven around.

All in all, thanks to Nuffnang and Volkswagen for the thrilling experience. Could not have find any other better opportunity to test drive FIVE Volkswagen car all in a day.

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