One word: Beautiful.

The roofline looks stretched, but I love the aggressive look of the windows, being set at an angle. I think it needs larger wheels though, they look good, but for some reason I would favor them being a little larger.

My only wish would be that the rear end be placed a little higher.

cool but top gear watchers…. whats the two last words that come into your head when you think of a sports sedan….

top gear premieres tonight in america on bbc by the way, why didnt LLN cover that?

Sexy, but the Audi A7 rendering in C/D is better. Four-door coupe segment is gonna become like the crossover segment, in other words, crowded as xxxx.

Nice. But that’s no coupe, just as the CLS-Class isn’t a coupe. That there’s a thingamajig: and a good one for that matter.

That looks just like a 4 door sedan.

Seems like a mistake like the Phaeton was. VW is trying to be something that it is not: sporty and sexy.

Won’t this go directly against the new A4.

I hate the “inner space” definition of “coupe” and sedan.” This looks good, but i’ve always liked passats. Give me the German edition, with a stick.

Besides the GTI which is very sporty (had three), but so not sexy.

It seems like people wait Mercedes Benz to create a niche and see if it succeeds. Then will they built a car that either competes with it or a smaller, less expensive version of it. This car will probably look good and it will succeed, too. I’m just waiting for manufacturers to have the balls to try something new as well.

This may be a dumb question, but i dont get how it makes sense to call a four door car a coupe? I was under the assumption that in order to be a coupe…..at had to be 2 door.

I’ve never been a fan of the B6. This concept will be much stronger once they update the Passat to the new 2009 A4 chasis. That should get us past the era of extraordinary overhangs.

I think it looks good so far. But I wonder if it is going to be positioned as a “Passat coupe” or is it going to cost more and be positioned above the Passat? It looks a bit longer than a standard Passat, but that could be the roof/trunk lines playing visual tricks.

Trying something new is always good. But one does not think of Passat and sporty sloping roofline. Audi does sporty and VW does sensible. Am I right?

A smarter move would be to replace the current dowdy Passat with this sedan (it’s not a coupe). This sexy thing will kill sales of current Passat if asked to compete with it in the marketplace. If they just price it higher to make them different, we could have another Phaeton on our hnads, and it still will make the regular Passat look old-school by comparison.

That fat B-pillar ruins the whole look of the car to me, as does the Eos-like thick swath slicing through the bodyside. I can imagine this will sell to M-B intenders without the cash, but I doubt it will hurt the regular Passat because the interior volume looks much smaller.

I am so sick and xxxxing tire of this “four door coupe” xxxx. What ass-hat is actually going to buy into this stuff. If it has four doors it is a goddamn sedan. Let’s go over this one more time…. Two doors - Coupe… Four doors - Sedan… Say it with me… TWO - COUPE… FOUR - SEDAN.

What a crock of xxxx.

It is a beautiful “sedan”, but then again whatever they call it people will buy it. VW really needs to pull the current Passat, if they are going to introduce this one. Having another variation of a vehicle at a higher price than the current one only pushes people into either producing the cash to go a more prestigious brand or shop for something comparable in the same/lower price range.

For those of you who seem to be having problems with the “four door coupe” concept, I think Mercedes started calling the CLS by that name because, despite having four doors, the roofline is much more like that of a 2-door coupe. Thus, the four-door coupe. I think the intent was to try to describe a new shape, or look, and NOT to try to convince us yokels that it’s something it clearly is not.

There. Does that make you feel any better?

Oh, and by the way—would those of you who feel the need to vent by using foul language please try to remember that this is a PUBLIC forum? There is a time and a place for that kind of language, and this isn’t it. Show us all what bright, thoughtful guys you really are by making your point without cursing, ok?

Thanks.

It looks like the unholy offspring of a Ford Taurus and a Chrysler Sebring. VW needs to drastically improve the quality of the their basic cars before they venture into new “segments.”

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They’re not selling the current Passat so they need to transform it into something else while putting it in a lower price range than anything else similar.

Thank you so much for the roofline lesson… I feel so ****in enlightened now… as well as for the etiquette lesson, I’m so ashamed. Last I knew they still hadn’t removed the first amendment so I can say whatever I damn well please, whether you like it or not. Besides LLN has been on a censoring kick lately to appease panty-waist sissy boys like yourself. With that said, there’s one more thing…. **** **** DAMN HELL **** **** PUSSY **** **** ****.

Passizzle:
The VW Passat will never go back to sharing a longitudinal platform with the A4. I don’t know where you heard that. The overhangs are here to stay.

AMGoof:
You’re a ****ing child.

it looks dumpy to me

Super-dull. And exactly WHAT about this is a coupe?

Jokes on you…that would be a sedan.

Doesn’t it look a bit too much like the Lexus GS?

^it really does. from the front it reminds me of a Mazda and the side looks like a CLS

It looks alot like a GS, jm. Good-looking car, especially compared to VW’s current line.

is that the logo for europe or is it to mislead car papparazzi?

^CTS i believe the term is Carparazzi

LP640 is being nice today, let me try something…Bob Lutz…

^what about her?

Ooo, this could be fun. Let me try.

….CORVETTE

Scott: **** you. You don’t like foul language, crack open your newspaper and read “Cathy.”

who the **** doesnt like foul language?

I’ve ****ing had about enough with the ****ing bad language in this ****ing place!

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****ING SCOTT GO TO ****ING MOTOR TREND THEY HAVE A ****ING LANGUAGE FILTER FOR SISSIES.

LOL LP640

IT’S LP640 DAY

DIE SCOTT DIE NO WAIT I MEAN DIE GM DIE

Looks like a lexus gs too much

Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo- Yankee Oscar Uniform- Sierra Charlie Oscar Tango Tango!

Guys, the inner lights are fake so that it looks like a GS. They’re trying to trick us (and obviously doing a very good job of it.)

Car looks sweet.

This looks god, and not nearly as CLS -like as expected in that the tail is not as pinched. It looks more like a swwoopy sedan than part of this new coupe design language. So how does this price in relation to a Passat? And is the next Passat going to get any of this design language? How big is this thing?

darn!!!!! hahahahahaha

It’ll sell great to yuppies and hipsters

Exactly why is this being called a coupe (as opposed to a sedan)?

Well, one way to make a 4-door sedan a coupe would be to give it very coupe-like proportions and a sporty stance, which is what Mercedes did with the CLS.

It seems the other way to make a 4-door sedan a coupe, according to VW, is to simply name it Coupe!

I don’t care what it is called. It is does not appeal to me. Beauty in nature defined by symmetry. This thing is asymmetrical.

The ONLY reason it’s called a coupe is because of the roofline. Stop asking that damn question! “Why is this called a coupe?”

haha glad I read your comment C6Racer. I was about to ask the same thing.

Of the whole car, I like the emblem the best.

Racer, coupe used to designate a sporty 2 door car (usually with quite large and heavy doors to let victims into rear quarters). I assume it is a cause of confusion since Krauts started to call 4 door sedans “coupe”. 4 door sedan without b-pillar use to be called hardtop. The nastiness in the picture is a definite 4 door sedan with clearly visible B-pillar between rear and front door.

They can call it whatever they want, but like any other ‘big’ VW they’ll just price it out of it’s league and no one will buy the damn thing anyways. If this is their latest effort to take over the world the rest of us can still sleep soundly.

It looks nice enough, but is that enough? If it hovers above the Passat in pricing while offering no gains in utility, power, or reliability, then I can’t imagine it succeeding. I don’t think people (at least in the U.S.) flock to VW to purchase a halo image type vehicle such as this; they will continue to go to Mercedes and the CLS. At best, I think it might attract a small following of people who fancy themselves as independent thinkers who abhor following the herd to the traditional luxury mainstays in the market.

Although this car is not as dowdy as the illfated Phaeton, I think it will still meet the same fate in the U.S. People simply do not equate VW with upscale, image conscious luxury.

The rear looks very, very weird to me, but I think it’s mostly because of camouflage. Other than that, it looks good.

mazdaman- If it hovers over the Passat with similar pricing, “utility”, features and reliability, it will do good. It will attract more customers and better compete with rivals.
Also, this isn’t close to the same as the Phaeton; the major reason why the Phaeton didn’t do well was because it wasn’t as good as it’s competitors, and it didn’t have anything from Volkswagen to associate with as high end luxury.
If they get the pricing right, it will do fine.

To others- I also thought it looked a little bit like a Lexus.

Haha, talk about looking like a Lexus GS. I know it’s probably an attempt to trick photogs. The grille is IDENTICAL to the GS.

Why the **** is everyone dropping the mother****ing F-bomb every two ****ing seconds? For the ****ing love of Jesus H. Christ his mother****ing self!

Looks like a Lexus, and those overhangs galore fore and aft look like ****ing ****.

And 60,000 dollars for a Volkswagen? I don’t know about that. Lots of awesome luxury sedans in that price range….

From the side profile it looks really good, until you begin to look at the other pictures. I’ve always felt that the downward slope and bias of the front end design of newer VW’s makes them have a “weak” presence rather than a “sporty” one. This culminates to the extra mass overwhelming the front of the car when seen from other angles.

The images are heavily photoshopped, to hide important data. Look at the sides of the front and rear lights. Look at the missing joint lines. Everything is bogus!

So nowadays we have to deal with camo and photoshopped “spy photography”!!! Crap!

HEY LLN - Why the **** did you delete my post here? I ranted, using the word **** numerous times, about calling this POS a “coupe,” yet apparrently writing **** **** **** **** 50 times above doesn’t get deleted? You guys off for the weekend?

Since when did you guys become so worried about foul language on this site? Who gives a ****? It’s just a bunch of guys looking at your site, not little kids. Get over yourself.

yawn