<![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Volkswagen Passat CC Four-Door Coupe Live - Jalopnik Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jalopnik.com.png <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Volkswagen Passat CC Four-Door Coupe Live - Jalopnik Comments]]> http://jalopnik.com Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:49:21 EST Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:49:21 EST http://jalopnik.com/344225/detroit-auto-show-volkswagen-passat-cc-four+door-coupe-live <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Volkswagen Passat CC Four-Door Coupe Live]]> http://jalopnik.com/344225/detroit-auto-show-volkswagen-passat-cc-four+door-coupe-live#c3796176 Now we're talking Fahrwegnugen. Mmm-mmm: finally, A VW I could sleep with. Ahhhh

smokes

]]> 12:344225:c3796176 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:49:21 EST <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Volkswagen Passat CC Four-Door Coupe Live]]> http://jalopnik.com/344225/detroit-auto-show-volkswagen-passat-cc-four+door-coupe-live#c3696345 A+ for moving away from the big-mouth-bass grille.

F for trying to fool me with the 'CC' moniker. I was thinking Coupe-Convertible and was excited. Then I saw 4 doors and was really excited. Then I realized it was a VAG CLS and was sorely disappointed.

FreeMan

]]> 12:344225:c3696345 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:47:02 EST <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Volkswagen Passat CC Four-Door Coupe Live]]> http://jalopnik.com/344225/detroit-auto-show-volkswagen-passat-cc-four+door-coupe-live#c3690314 @drewdraws2: I vote yes. And i didnt think the 407/607 looked that bad anyway. Ok, perhaps they're not strying, but more attractive than an impala or your average econo-box.

Schm is not particularly sure what he is ranting about. . .

]]> 12:344225:c3690314 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:11:22 EST <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Volkswagen Passat CC Four-Door Coupe Live]]> http://jalopnik.com/344225/detroit-auto-show-volkswagen-passat-cc-four+door-coupe-live#c3690213 @Zandr: Well, technically a coupé is a body style that's not door dependent. The French word for "cut", it originally was used to describe anything with a rear deck that finished in a straight line from the roof (what we'd describe as a fastback). However, because we Americans have bastardized that into coupe, meaning a two-door car, now we have this confused new moniker of four-door coupe (or four-door two-door). We should just put the damn e-acute (the accent over the "e") back and the whole thing makes sense again.

Passat Sedan Coupé anyone?

Gerard Drewpardieu

]]> 12:344225:c3690213 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:54:49 EST <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Volkswagen Passat CC Four-Door Coupe Live]]> http://jalopnik.com/344225/detroit-auto-show-volkswagen-passat-cc-four+door-coupe-live#c3689973 @akn: Audi/BMW/VW always seem to hold the best stuff close, and send the States shite. Only after they have had something in Europe for a year or two will they consider sending it this way. If we are lucky.

Of course Ford seems to treat us that way too, and they are FROM here.

DoctorNine

]]> 12:344225:c3689973 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:17:05 EST <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Volkswagen Passat CC Four-Door Coupe Live]]> http://jalopnik.com/344225/detroit-auto-show-volkswagen-passat-cc-four+door-coupe-live#c3688122 It's pretty, but does VW need ANOTHER model? Course, I said the same thing about the CLS and the GLK...

ZZMarcus

]]> 12:344225:c3688122 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:33:07 EST <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Volkswagen Passat CC Four-Door Coupe Live]]> http://jalopnik.com/344225/detroit-auto-show-volkswagen-passat-cc-four+door-coupe-live#c3688023 @SebringMGB: I'm in the middle of a massage.

Matt Hardigree

]]> 12:344225:c3688023 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:20:04 EST <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Volkswagen Passat CC Four-Door Coupe Live]]> http://jalopnik.com/344225/detroit-auto-show-volkswagen-passat-cc-four+door-coupe-live#c3687979 I second the Peugeot comment. The Passat before the current one fell into the "just right" category; what happened?

Number_Six

]]> 12:344225:c3687979 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:15:20 EST <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Volkswagen Passat CC Four-Door Coupe Live]]> http://jalopnik.com/344225/detroit-auto-show-volkswagen-passat-cc-four+door-coupe-live#c3687702 Where are our pictures of the door hinges, Matt?

SebringMGB

]]> 12:344225:c3687702 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:41:09 EST <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Volkswagen Passat CC Four-Door Coupe Live]]> http://jalopnik.com/344225/detroit-auto-show-volkswagen-passat-cc-four+door-coupe-live#c3686756 @Zandr: Rover built one in the '60s and early '70s based off the P5. It was like the saloon, but with a lower, sleeker roofline. I don't think there was another one until Mercedes-Benz invented the CLS.

Euromobile

]]> 12:344225:c3686756 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:54:14 EST <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Volkswagen Passat CC Four-Door Coupe Live]]> http://jalopnik.com/344225/detroit-auto-show-volkswagen-passat-cc-four+door-coupe-live#c3686578 @drewdraws2: It's the 2015 Hyundai Genesis! This time with a Mercedes CL coupe front, CLS side. Just take of the badge, slap on a weird grill and there you go.

ApolloV

]]> 12:344225:c3686578 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:31:14 EST <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Volkswagen Passat CC Four-Door Coupe Live]]> http://jalopnik.com/344225/detroit-auto-show-volkswagen-passat-cc-four+door-coupe-live#c3686577 Wait, so VW keeps the Scirocco for Europe and gives us this? Um, thanks...

akn

]]> 12:344225:c3686577 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:31:12 EST <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Volkswagen Passat CC Four-Door Coupe Live]]> http://jalopnik.com/344225/detroit-auto-show-volkswagen-passat-cc-four+door-coupe-live#c3686531 I'll never understand a world where a 4-door coupe with barely enough rear-seat headroom for Danny DeVito is considered more marketable than the same car with the same roofline and two doors.

WilliamG.

]]> 12:344225:c3686531 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:27:30 EST <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Volkswagen Passat CC Four-Door Coupe Live]]> http://jalopnik.com/344225/detroit-auto-show-volkswagen-passat-cc-four+door-coupe-live#c3686417 @Zandr:

It's essentially a 2+2 coupe with doors to access the rear seats so that your kids don't have to climb over the front ones.

racerx

]]> 12:344225:c3686417 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:16:26 EST <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Volkswagen Passat CC Four-Door Coupe Live]]> http://jalopnik.com/344225/detroit-auto-show-volkswagen-passat-cc-four+door-coupe-live#c3686375 @Zandr:

Some guy in the marketing department decided it sounded "sportier" than sedan. Same as using "crossover utility vehicle" instead of station wagon.

ranwhenparked

]]> 12:344225:c3686375 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:10:32 EST <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Volkswagen Passat CC Four-Door Coupe Live]]> http://jalopnik.com/344225/detroit-auto-show-volkswagen-passat-cc-four+door-coupe-live#c3686226 Can someone *please* explain "four-door coupe" to me?

Zandr

]]> 12:344225:c3686226 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:50:38 EST <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Volkswagen Passat CC Four-Door Coupe Live]]> http://jalopnik.com/344225/detroit-auto-show-volkswagen-passat-cc-four+door-coupe-live#c3686199 Why doesn't Volkswagen learn that people don't buy expensive VWs? Do they forget sometimes that they own Audi?!

racerx

]]> 12:344225:c3686199 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:47:50 EST <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Volkswagen Passat CC Four-Door Coupe Live]]> http://jalopnik.com/344225/detroit-auto-show-volkswagen-passat-cc-four+door-coupe-live#c3686164 i like it and all.. but it looks like someone ate a camry for lunch...

chrystlubitshi

]]> 12:344225:c3686164 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:41:29 EST <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Volkswagen Passat CC Four-Door Coupe Live]]> http://jalopnik.com/344225/detroit-auto-show-volkswagen-passat-cc-four+door-coupe-live#c3686117 Oh VW, how I miss your Teutonic angularity.

This looks like a Korean knockoff of the Peugeot 607. And no, that's not a compliment.

Gerard Drewpardieu

]]> 12:344225:c3686117 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:34:37 EST <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Volkswagen Passat CC Four-Door Coupe Live]]> http://jalopnik.com/344225/detroit-auto-show-volkswagen-passat-cc-four+door-coupe-live#c3686054 Looks like the Audi A5. At least they finally lost that hideous face full of chrome covered plastic. Looks better. Definitely more upmarket. Tail lights are... noticeable. Will have to see it in the flesh, though. These photos look like there is a bit of spherical aberration in the lens.

DoctorNine

]]> 12:344225:c3686054 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:27:31 EST <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Volkswagen Passat CC Four-Door Coupe Live]]> http://jalopnik.com/344225/detroit-auto-show-volkswagen-passat-cc-four+door-coupe-live#c3685923 My first thought (when viewed from the side) was that it looked like a smoother version of an S60 that bred with a Chrysler Sebring. Not impressed. I loved the late '90's, early 00's Passats though.

cargogh

]]> 12:344225:c3685923 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:13:54 EST <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Volkswagen Passat CC Four-Door Coupe Live]]> http://jalopnik.com/344225/detroit-auto-show-volkswagen-passat-cc-four+door-coupe-live#c3685751 Couldn't they make the talights a little bigger?

Novaload

]]> 12:344225:c3685751 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:53:11 EST