The German brand has killed one of its badges, leaving only the family variant that is already being developed. We are talking about the new Volkswagen Passat Variant that will arrive in 2024, a model that will face a very deep aesthetic renovation to stay in the market, and of which we will anticipate its design.
Volkswagen is playing an interesting card in the D segment. The German brand knows that the three-volume sedans in this category are, increasingly, in a more than delicate situation, and that the Premium barely survive. This is the key reason why you have decided charged to a flagship in the product range, the Passatand leave only the most versatile and practical option, the family body that we have already seen in some spy photos.
The manufacturer is already developing the new Volkswagen Passat Variant 2024, so you will only have this bodywork in the range. But far from being a completely new model, the Germans have taken advantage of the model still on sale to add a few millimeters to the wheelbase and make a wider interior, also adapting the image exterior to the new aesthetic canon released with the compact. And here you can see the new Passat Variant in this recreationa faithful preview of the production model.
The Volkswagen Passat Variant 2024 will be more sophisticated
Volkswagen stylists will transform the elegant image into a more sophisticated look, making slimmer headlights with Matrix LED technology and joined by a thin LED light bar. The logical evolution that the Wolfsburg brand is applying and that will mean dispensing with the characteristic radiator grille, deriving cooling and ventilation from the bumper. The manufacturer’s camouflage experts have taken care of confuse the grille area with some adhesives that simulate this non-existent part.
At the opposite pole, the image will be very similar to that of the new Golf Variantwith fine lights integrated into the panel, retaining one of the characteristics of the Passat Variant: its large tailgate and low loading sill, accessing a large-capacity trunk, which has made this model one of the most popular options. attractive and appreciated by customers in Central European countries, including Germany and Austria, and to the detriment of SUVs.
The future Passat Variant will continue betting on the traditional combustion mechanics of gasoline and diesel, in addition to the plug-in hybrid version «eHybrid», which we have already seen in a first-time mule, options that will be offered with automatic transmission and also by 4MOTION all-wheel drive. However, an important question remains up in the air, whether it will take the name of the sedan or keep its own that it has proudly worn since the 1980s. A detail that we will know at the end of next year when it will be presented although it will go on sale in 2024.
Source: Engine1