GENEVA MOTOR SHOW
Arteon’s art of upmarket styling and roomy driving
The Volkswagen CC replacement gets sexier, more expensive and bigger, writes Michael Taylor
The second generation of Volkswagen’s high prince of style has arrived in the form of the Arteon. Too cool for the Passat CC name, the five-seat Arteon has smoothed out the more boring bits of the Passat and added an extra layer of practicality onto the old CC. It has also moved a little more upmarket, too, with VW pitching it at a more sophisticated customer than the Passat, even though they are essentially the same car beneath the Arteon’s more aggressive styling. Engine range Still sitting on an elongated version of the MQB modular front-drive architecture, the Arteon is planned to stick with a pure four-cylinder range of engines, including even the new 1.5l, turbocharged petrol engine which debuted in the Golf Mk7.5 last month. At 4,862mm long, the Arteon will be 95mm longer than the standard Passat sedan but only 64mm longer than the superceded Passat CC. It should also pay dividends in interior passenger space, especially in the rear-seat legroom area, with a 50mm stretch in t...
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