![]() ![]() ![]() Twenty-nine year-old Tobias Herrmann, who hails from Hamburg, Germany is quite partial to odd VW saloons, too, however, the unassuming silver car you see here isn’t a Santana as we first presumed, but in fact a Passat 32b hatchback. Sadly, we lowered the car too much, cracked the gearbox casing on a cat’s eye and the car was scrapped, but we’ve always had a soft spot for the underrated VW saloon and thankfully we’re not the only ones… Despite its automatic transmission and ‘cruiser’ ride, the five-cylinder motor felt solid and as if it would be a great base vehicle to take pretty much anything you could throw at it. Until the day we bought the car we don’t really remember having any kind of opinions on the booted odd ball, but even before we fitted the banded steel wheels and chopped the springs (don’t try that at home, kids) we soon began to fall for the car’s instant charm and appeal. I’m not too sure how long you have been reading this very magazine, but old-skool followers may remember around a decade back we had our very own VW Santana on the fleet.
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