New Passat due in autumn: Volkswagen's mid-range saloon and estate get MQB platform and edgier looks

摘要

Volkswagen's new Passat has been spied wearing a production-based body for the first time ahead its planned unveiling at the 2014 Paris show in September. Key among the innovations adopted by the new Passat, known internally as the 'B8', is VW's highly flexible MQB platform structure. The MQB platform provides the Passat with greater component sharing potential with other VWs. It also helps to streamline production by enabling the new Passat to be assembled on the same assembly line as the Golf. The early road-going prototypes are heavily disguised, but the new Passat is said to take on a much edgier look and have tauter surfacing in line with the styling direction taken by the latest Golf.