Volkswagen Passat Variant VIN Check

Asking prices from 4,251 European used cars. The typical column is the median, half the cars offered that year ask less, half ask more. The range is the 10th to 90th percentile, so it shows what condition, mileage and trim are worth on top of the year alone.

A 2026 Volkswagen Passat Variant typically asks €44,068; a 2016 car asks €15,850, about 64% less. A car priced well under its year's range is usually telling you something, high mileage, a category write-off, an import with a history you cannot see from the advert, or an odometer that has been wound back.

Median odometer reading by model year, from the same European cars. Use it as the reference point for the car you are looking at: an odometer far below the median for its year is the single most common way a used car is misrepresented in Europe.

A 2021 Volkswagen Passat Variant typically shows 166,869 km, roughly 33,374 km a year. A VIN check compares the readings recorded against that specific car over time, so a reading that went down, or a gap that is too clean, shows up as an inconsistency rather than a guess.

What is actually on the European market, from 4,251 cars, not the full factory options list, but the mix a buyer will really be choosing between.

Most common displacements: 2.0 L, 1.5 L, 1.4 L, 1.6 L, 1.9 L. Median stated output: 150 hp.

How the Volkswagen Passat Variant is split across body styles and transmissions on the European market.

Our records for this model span 7 European markets, led by Germany at 56.4% of stock. Cross-border buying is normal for this model, which is exactly when a VIN check earns its money: a car can be clean in the country selling it and have an unpaid finance record, a write-off or a theft report in the country it came from.

• Germany 56.4%
• Poland 17%
• Czechia 10.2%
• Portugal 6%
• Bulgaria 3.4%
• Slovakia 3.2%
• Sweden 2%

From the EU's mandatory CO₂ monitoring dataset, every new Volkswagen Passat Variant registered in the EU is counted here. Registration volumes show which years and engines were actually popular, which is what determines parts availability and resale demand later.

CO₂ figures are registration-weighted averages across all trims of that year, on the WLTP cycle where the year has it and NEDC before that. Your car's own figure depends on its specific version.

One recall campaign naming this model is on file. A recall is only a problem if it was never carried out: the check that matters is whether this particular car was fixed.

• Cars initially used for internal purposes of Volkswagen AG might not have been correctly modified before they were sold to the general public. There is a possibility that certain safety systems of these cars are not correctly modified for street use. The product does not comply with the Regulation on the approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles.
  EU Safety Gate · 2024-03-28 · Model years: 2016–2017
  Risk: Injuries

The figures above describe the model. A report describes the one car, from its 17-character VIN, and costs EUR 8.90.

• Odometer readings recorded against this VIN over time, and whether they run in order.
• Whether the VIN appears in European stolen-vehicle records.
• Open safety recalls matched to this VIN's build, not just to the model name.
• The registration trail across countries, imports, re-registrations and gaps.
• Decoded factory specification: engine, gearbox, body, fuel and build year.
• A market-value estimate placed against live European asking prices for the same year.