The Passat R Line comes with a choice of three gasoline engines (122 hp, 160 hp, and 210 hp) and three diesel engines (105 hp, 140 hp and 170 hp), all of the turbocharged four-cylinder variety. Strangely, what you can’t get in the R Line is our favorite engine: the naturally aspirated 300-hp, 3.6-liter VR6. The previous-generation, European-market Passat R36 was offered exclusively with that engine.

The new Passat R-Line starts at 30,225 Euros in Germany. The company is also offering the R-Line as a 990 Euro package for the Comfortline and Highline variants.