Had four marks of Passat over 14 years and only ever had to put in some oil between services once. That was my earliest Passat in 2003 after the first 600 miles. Since then my oil bottle stayed in its container in the boot.
Very little motorway, gentle first 1000 miles. Hit 5000rpm very occasionally in sport mode later. Bear in mind mines petrol and I use Shell Nitro. Very happy as I ordered my Q5 in petrol due to low mileage but later changed to Diesel as I heard of poor oil consumption in TSI's. May have been the earlier ones though. Vindicates my choice now.
Slightly changing the topic, I've owned from new two VW TSi's, 1.8 and 2L, both consistently used oil. My last two cars have been new 2L Audi TSi's and they also needed a 6 weekly oil top up.
Hopefully the Tiguan will be better in this respect when it arrives!
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