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The new, top-of-the-line Volkswagen Passat CC will get a gutsy 300bhp 3.6-litre V6 engine and four-wheel drive when it goes on sale in the UK in September. The most expensive version of the new saloon-***-coupe, launched today at the Detroit motor show’s first press day, will be capable of 0-62mph acceleration in a rapid 5.6sec and a top speed of 155mph. VW's first pictures of it are in our gallery.
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Very nice, but a bit too big for my needs! Any chance of a  shrunken version, to be based on the golf?

Another pointless over the top car which futher undermines the peoples cars roots.  Who buys a car like this?

How about VW change their name to Reich Volskwagen aka rich peoples car.

Another exercise in blandness if you ask me.

 Who's gonna buy it?

i'm pretty sure this is just a introduction to the model and the core seller would be a high performance diesel with dsg etc etc

I've just stood next to my CLS with a pic of this and the CC looks so cheap and bland next to it. Let's face it, if someone has the money, and brains, then they're not going to chose a CC over a CLS are they? `Yeah you see, I could have got a much better looking Merc, but I went for an uglier VW cos' that's the man I am.....` You get the idea.

Griffin911:

the CC looks so cheap and bland next to it. Let's face it, if someone has the money, and brains, then they're not going to chose a CC over a CLS are they?

But what if they haven't got the money and brains, like me?  The CLS starts at £44000 whilst the Passat CC starts at £18000!  Yes, I love the CLS but I have no chance whatsoever of one at that price.

The downside of the Passat for me is that it only has 4 seats (I have a wife and 3 kids..) and it's not a hatchback.  So the Audi A4 it'll have to be until I win the lottery.

 

 

Yes, a Passat 'sportback' - hatchback + five seats + swoopy roofline - would've been more appropriate for the VW erm 'brand'. Another missed opportunity? Then the Audi A7 could've dealt with the CLS.

I don't understand cars like this and Manufacturers who insist on adding pointless models into a range that has a completely different demographic.

I look upon the Passat as a work horse type car, sold mainly to reps through lease companies, used to pound the motorways. Surely, this type of design would be best suited to the forth coming Scirrocco, or go the way Mercedes did with the CLS and launch a new car for it.

Peugeot did it with the 406 producing a coupe version of another workhorse and where did it get them? how many do you see? not many.

I was driving along earlier and I saw what I thought was a revamped Passat.

Fair enough I thought.

Pulled out and followed it for a bit, not really that interested as I was singing along loudly to the Pretender by the Foo Fighters and blow me down, as I got to the traffic lights, I noticed it was a Jetta.

Cor blimey Guvner, you could have knocked me over with a feather. But seriously, I kind of get this 'new' car but now I don't 'get' the Jetta and the Passat being sold at the same time.

One or the other will do - both are not required.

Folks,

Aside from the new A4 (people will buy on badge only) VW have a history of doing this, as it's their way of testing dynamics of upcoming important cars. Phaeton for Bentley, New Octavia for Mark V Golf.

Is this is their prelude to the new Passat coming out in '09? I suspect they want to see how their new dynamic chassis control and other advances shape up in the real world.

 My 2 cents.

JJ

The CC is a nice looking car. Far funkier than the workhorse Passat. As VW have a well earned reputation for solidity and quality, a 'premium volume' manufacturer I'm not the least surprised they're exploiting funkier niches away from the mainstream volume sellers. It makes sense (profits) to avoid head on competition and try niches where you can get a £2-£3k premium.

Regards "looking like a cheaper CLS" yes that's true. The same 'slur' is levied at the Boxster driver as a "cheap 911". I don't think owners give a fig quite frankly! If the CC hadn't been invented I'm sure there's other companies that would have.