Volkswagen Passat MPG

The Volkswagen Passat has EPA ratings for 32 model years, 1990–2022, most often among midsize cars. Its best version had the highest combined rating among midsize cars in 1996–1998, among midsize-large station wagons in 1996 and among midsize station wagons in 1999 and 2004–2005, and it placed in its class top five in 16 model years. In 1998 the Dodge Stratus and the Plymouth Breeze came next among 42 midsize cars. In 1994 even the most efficient version of the Passat shared the lowest rating of 16 midsize-large station wagons; it sat in its class's bottom five in three model years.

Its first diesel version arrived in 1996, when 4 of 144 cars offered one. Averaged over 1994–1998, its best version placed first of 33 among midsize cars rated at least three years in that span, and it was in the top five in one other five-year span.