I just expected more by what was effectively the hybrid gold-standard (the Prius). My Passat was a regular diesel with some tweaks (VW called it "bluemotion"), thinking it got so close to the average hybrid efficiency made me slightly sad for a minute. But it's not important anyway, hopefully we're rapidly approaching an electric-first setup and that's what matters.
You should really mention that it's diesel in a comparison like this. Diesels produce significantly more air pollution (particulary nasties like NOx) than similar gas/petrol engines.
