Volkswagen Is Hunting BMW And Mercedes With A New Premium Four-Door Coupe
Volkswagen is going upmarket again, but rather than replace the ill-fated Phaeton directly, the new Arteon is going to sit just a little above the Passat.
That potentially puts it in direct competition with the Volkswagen Group’s own Audi A7, as well as rivals from BMW and Mercedes.
Three months before the covers come off at the Geneva Motor Show, Volkswagen has sent out a teaser drawing of the four-door coupé. It looks reminiscent of the CC, formerly the Passat CC, but with even sleeker lines befitting a concept car.
That said, it also looks pretty close to a production-ready design. Let’s hope the name doesn’t stick, though. It’s a bit pretentious. It’s a conjunction of ‘art’, because it’s fit to hang in any gallery, obviously, and ‘eon’, which is Volkswagen’s recently-adopted suffix indicating a special premium model.
We don’t yet know whether the Arteon, or whatever it ends up being called, will be sold in Europe or the US but it’s almost guaranteed to go to China. It’s also likely to use hybrid and electric power as well as internal combustion.
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One Issue: No RWD
Speaking of emissions … I still don’t get why VW went to the trouble of detecting “being in an emissions test” and switching to super economy / low emissions mode, to cheat the test. Why wouldn’t they just have a switch with two settings “Economy/Sport”. Whenever testers are testing, they’d test in economy mode and get the same results. It also leaves the user the option of living with their car in that mode should they choose. Those who want to focus more on sporty characteristics could switch it to Sport (and even have the car remember your setting). Same end result, a better user experience (choice!) and no cheating in play. #Dumb
That’s not how emission regulating systems work. You can’t electronically adjust the catalysator.
Sigh……
A luxury car that only a few can afford is NOT a “people’s car”. Because that’s what “Volkswagen” stands for… or at least stood for a long time ago.
So you make that and not this????
(Apparently Volkswagen wants to be an up-market Car maker now..🤔)
Dear VW, do it in DTM version.
It looks exactly the same as this, and this was also to replace the CC.
“Four door coupé” am I the only one to find this absurd ?
Rx8 is a 4 door coupe it isn’t common design but it’s not unique
Why on earth would VW do something that Audi already does? Makes no sense
If a R version comes out, will it be called the R-Teon?
squawk
like this one right?