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Recently, a new set of spy photos of Volkswagen's road test models have been released online, and the new car is expected to be released in 2030.

It is understood that Volkswagen is the travel version of Passat, the new car is the travel version of Passat, and the appearance and interior of the new car all adopt the latest design language of Volkswagen, which has not changed much compared with the current model, but has changed in detail. In terms of appearance, from the espionage photos exposed, the front face of the new car is more radical, the new car uses a flat grille, a ventilation bridge similar to a hollowed-out design on both sides, and the headlamp group uses matrix headlights, which makes the front face very fierce. In addition, the front bumper part uses a large-size grille shape, compared with the current model, the new car as a whole is more sporty. On the side of the car body, the shape of the new car is relatively simple, the new car adopts a standard travel body structure, the side waistline runs through the body to the rear, and the front and rear wing panels are wide out of the car body, which is similar to the shape of the current model. The rim adopts a two-color Y-type five-spoke design, and the overall shape is regular. In the rear part, the new car uses a small spoiler and embedded high brake lights.

Interior part, the new car has not yet exposed the details of the interior part, the new car is expected to use dual large-size suspended LCD design, and consistent with the new Golf and other models.

On the power side, the new car is expected to provide gasoline and diesel engines with 48V as standard, as well as plug-in hybrid systems.

At the end of January this year, the auto industry reported that the American version of the Volkswagen Passat "Passat" was officially suspended at its Chattanooga plant in Tennessee. Before that, Volkswagen took the lead in announcing that it would no longer update the Passat in the United States and withdraw from the US market before 2023 because of poor sales. At the end of January this year, Volkswagen announced that the car would stop production in advance because of poor sales of the model. So Volkswagen advanced production to December 2021. However, although the hatchback Passat has stopped production, the Passat travel version, Arteon and Arteon hunting version will continue to be produced, and Volkswagen will continue to upgrade it.

According to the data of past inquiries concerned by the automobile industry, the Passat is one of the most representative models of Volkswagen, and it is also the main intermediate car with a long history. The Passat model of Volkswagen first entered the American market in 1974. It has a history of 48 years and has sold more than 1.8 million cars in the United States. Due to the high consumer demand for station wagons, the travel version of Passat, Ultrak, will continue to be available. Now, with the release of the new Volkswagen spy photos, it means that the replacement of the Passat series has been actively promoted. According to relevant media reports, as the new Volkswagen Passat may be the last generation of products using internal combustion engines, and Volkswagen CC will fill the market for hatchbacks in the future, people in the automobile industry speculate that the new car will only launch travel products, and as to whether it will be introduced into China in the future, there is no official outflow of relevant information.

According to public data, Volkswagen launched Passat in Europe in 1973. Before 1990, Volkswagen Passat was not sold under this name, but under the name of "Dasher" and "Quantum". It was not until the launch of the third-generation model in 1990 that Passat had the name "Passat" in the United States. In 2011, the "special supply version" Passat for the United States and China entered the market respectively. Volkswagen Passat is divided into European version and American version, in which the corresponding domestic model of European version Passat is FAW-Volkswagen Maiteng, and the corresponding domestic model of American version Passat is SAIC Volkswagen Passat. In terms of sales, 2012 was the best time for Passat sales in the United States, where 117000 Passat vehicles were sold. However, with the popularity of the SUV, the sales of the Passat began to decline. The annual sales of the Passat in 2021 were only 24400, and the continued downturn in sales has become the main reason for the suspension of production of the model. By contrast, the sales of Maiteng and Passat cars in the domestic market are more satisfactory. According to statistics, the annual sales of FAW-Volkswagen Maiteng and SAIC-Volkswagen Passat cars in 2021 are 133980 and 131291 respectively.

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