Used Car of the Day: 2007 Volkswagen EOS
With spring around the corner, we bring you a drop-top. It's a 2007 Volkswagen EOS.
There are 119,000 miles on the odometer and the car has the DSG automatic transmission. Underhood is the 3.2-liter R32 V6 engine, and the car has the VR6 trim.
Other than some worn interior leather, the car appears to be in good shape and the seller says it runs and drives well.
Check out this Pennsylvania-based VW here. The ask is $4,500.
[Image: Seller]
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Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.
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Great looking car with a name that has meaning and it happens to have a sweet engine too!
VR6? DSG? NFW.
If you're going to take the plunge on a VW, make it a simple 4-banger and a manual. Otherwise you're spending money on it like it's an Audi.
It'll prove to be a very expensive cheap car. But with the VR6, these were fun to drive.
I bought a 2012 Eos Executive in June of 2017 and drove it until the end of 2022 when I gave it to my youngest son. It had 78k when I got it.
There are 2 well-known issues with the engine:
Other than that, the DSG has been flawless (it does require a complete fluid change every 40k miles). The top mechanism has also been flawless. It helps that I have had an alignment and lubrication done annually. The fact that the roof has a sliding sunroof built it is pretty cool also.
It is a fun car to drive (definitely has that European feel) and the optional stereo system has plenty of volume and low end for top-down driving. The turbo makes it sufficiently fast, but I always want more!
The biggest problem with the cars is that they initially had a high sticker price (38k in the case of my example). I paid far less than that in 2017 due to the rapid depreciation.
The Eos, despite the VIN starting with 'W', was actually built at VW Autoeuropa in Portugal.