Throw in a 3.0L TDI engine, a 6-speed manual, and all-wheel-drive, and I'm sold.

This should help them sell bottom-rung Phaetons, right?

Because I don't see it doing too well.

So it's a CC, but not a Coupe-Cabrio?

Who, exactly, is VW trying to kid?

Yeah, because the W8 Passats sold so well...

I've said it once, I'll say it again: There's no such thing as a "four door coupe." The car above is a SEDAN!!! I blame whatever jackhole at Benz came up with the idea for the calling CLS a "four door coupe."

/rant

This is all part of the new VW marketing plan based on bra sizes. The CC is short for C Cup, Phaeton will be renamed the DC, Passat the BC, Jetta the AC. There is a double A vehicle in the works, very small.

Well, it's a better name than Rikki Rockett..........

I think it is a very good looking car, and I'd definitely buy one if I needed a newer car and could find a way to afford it.

@Rock517:

In fact, a coupé is just another name for a faux-cabriolet... and it can have any number of doors.

In the early 20th century, it stood for a more sportive car, with a lower stance and less practicality than a sedan, sometimes based on a convertible version.

Criminy, haven't the Camry-based Lexus cars (es3xx?) had this roofline for like... a million years? I don't think VW is fooling anybody, if people want a $30K+ VW they'll buy an Audi.
Once VW figures out a way to make selling lots of $15-$20K cars profitable, they'll do okay. All these high-zoot vee dubs really make little sense to me.

@graverobber- Same great taste, new low price!: The only way VW will sell a lot of $15 - $20K cars profitably would be to have them made south of the border. Importing from Europe is almost prohibitively expensive when you're trying to sell in this range.

On the same subject, prices for the European upper crust should be going up by about 8 to 12% because of the depressed dollar. Welcome to Malaise Part Deux.

Actually, VW is looking for a mid-America manufacture site right now. They saw the value of the dollar, and went this way. One of the only good things about the recent devaluation.

The word coupé derives from the French verb couper, to cut -- and it could just as easily be applied to four or two-door. We just recognize the word more readily when pertaining to a two-door, but if the roof of a body type can be "cut" (and which can't?) then it's ok to call it a coupé. The point is to create something breathtaking, as VW has done...

Much ado about too little for too much bucks.

I think it looks great.

Would I buy/own one? Not for all the mongolians in China.

But it looks good.

VW has a hard sell ahead of them.

I wish they would sell this VW again...the brazilian SP2

Still no word on the Polo, right?

I don't think this will be a hard sell at all. Once you see it you will understand. I saw it at the NAIAS and once I laid eyes on it, I loved it. I'm actually considering one for the wife, which means, for me. And it starts at 27k you negative nellies....the Pheaton it is not so stop comparing the two!

After-thought here. The fact that you all who are suppose to be jalop heads think its a 50k car when its not tells me that VW has done a damn good job with the design.

I don't think that this car will do well at all the more gas go's up the less car sales we are seeing it cost me $70 just to fill my kia optima come one all I am doing is worken to go to work bills lmfao lol there not being payed

Any word on a diesel Golf '09 ?