Volkswagen has revealed first particulars of the utterly newly developed Passat. The main focus is on highly effective aerodynamic design, new high-efficiency drives, top quality and a bunch of recent applied sciences.
In just some days, the car can be proven to the general public for the primary time on the IAA Mobility in Munich (5 to 9 September 2023). The brand new Passat can be launched as a flexible Variant within the first quarter of 2024. With greater than 34 million models offered worldwide, the Passat is the top-selling Volkswagen of all time after the Golf and forward of the Beetle.
Clear and highly effective – the design is clearly Passat, clearly Volkswagen, but new from each perspective. The client-focused vary of three new plug-in and gentle hybrid drives and 5 turbocharged petrol and diesel engine variants is characterised by effectivity. The quiet and spacious Passat Variant provides a excessive degree of journey consolation and can be optionally accessible with new adaptive chassis management (DCC Professional) and new ergoActive seats (with pneumatic stress level therapeutic massage).
The intuitive options of the digitalised cockpit panorama are a totally new improvement. The brand new Passat may also optionally park independently and canopy lengthy distances in assisted driving mode.
Two new plug-in hybrid drivesKai Grünitz, Member of the Model Board of Administration accountable for Technical Growth, says: “The newest evolutionary stage of the modular transverse matrix (MQB evo) varieties the extremely revolutionary technical foundation of the ninth Passat era. Because of the numerous economies of scale of the MQB evo, Volkswagen has once more democratised quite a few high-tech developments and made them accessible for lots of of 1000’s of drivers.”
The 2 utterly newly developed plug-in hybrid drives (eHybrid) with a system output of 150 kW (204 PS) and 200 kW (272 PS) are an ideal instance of this. Together with a brand new 19.7 kWh battery (web power content material), they make all-electric ranges of round 100 km doable.
This distance turns the brand new Passat Variant into an electrical car for on a regular basis life – that is moreover ensured by brief charging instances because the battery can now be charged at AC cost factors with 11 kW as an alternative of the earlier 3.6 kW.
The Passat Variant eHybrid may even be charged with as much as 50 kW at DC quick charging stations. As well as, the mix of electrical drive motor and new economical turbocharged petrol engine (1.5 TSI evo2) supplies total ranges of round 1,000 km.
New panorama displayVolkswagen has utterly redesigned the high-quality inside. Notably hanging is the clearly organized, giant panorama show– fashionable, useful and progressive. The MIB4 serves because the technical platform right here. The newest era of the “modular infotainment matrix” permits intuitive operation that has been persistently tailor-made to the desires of Volkswagen drivers.
Assisted parkingThe new Passat Variant will launch with an additional developed vary of state-of-the-art help techniques. The spectrum of park help techniques is new. These embrace the non-compulsory Park Help Plus, Park Help Professional and the reminiscence perform for Park Help Professional.
With Park Help Professional, the brand new Passat Variant can drive into and out of parking areas by distant management utilizing a smartphone. If the Passat has the reminiscence perform for Park Help Pro04 on board, the system can file and retailer the final 50 metres of a journey on request. When the car reaches the identical place once more – for instance, the doorway to the carport at residence – it provides to take over the parking manoeuvre. Impartial driving out of a parking house can be doable.
World premiere of DCC ProThe adaptive chassis management DCC Professional represents a brand new degree of suspension expertise. Its unfold of most dynamics and highest consolation units requirements within the mid-sized class. That is made doable because of the two-valve expertise utilized in a Volkswagen for the primary time.
The ergoActive Plus seats with a pneumatic 10-chamber stress level therapeutic massage perform additionally supply a excessive degree of journey consolation. Because of a 50 mm longer wheelbase with additionally 50 mm extra legroom within the rear and a baggage compartment capability of as much as 1,920 litres, the Passat Variant is ideally suited as an all-rounder for enterprise and leisure.
Sep 1, 2023