Volkswagen Passat

Volkswagen Passat is a great family car built by Volkswagen cars in six design generations since 1973. Slotting between the Volkswagen Golf / Jetta, Volkswagen, Volkswagen Phaeton and Volkswagen in the current configuration, the Passat and its derivatives have been badged differently Dasher, Santana, Quantum, Magotan, travel, and Carat. In 2008, the Volkswagen Passat CC expanded with the launch, '4-door coupe' version of the Passat.

Passat has been placed in the middle of the saloon / salon market segment in its introduction in 1973. Sales of the aging Beetle were declining, and most air-cooled rear-engine models like the Volkswagen Type 3 and 411 and 412 were based on older technology. Following the acquisition of Volkswagen Audi Group in 1964, Volkswagen has used the technical expertise to develop new modern drive a car with front wheel drive with a water-cooled engine, and thus the Passat and Golf (the latter introduced in 1974) was the first of a new generation of Volkswagen cars. The first Passat was developed in part by Audi 80/Fox and until 2005 the two shared a story.

During its development phase, the Passat has been appointed as internal EA400 (Entwicklungsauftrag 400, or 'Development Order 400'), and long before its launch, the Volkswagen Type 3 production plant in Wolfsburg been shut down to release the capacity for new ones. car Wolfsburg was able to increase production with care: before Passat began producing lines were used to set up small volumes year Audi 80 cars brother who had been released a year earlier. directly Passat nameplate from the German word for trade wind - and the period of its history where Volkswagen vehicles named storms, including also the course (after the Gulf Stream, Jetta (after Jet Stream) and Scirocco (Sirocco after).