You may not like the Volkswagen Passat, but you cannot take the crown away from it. Or maybe? The middle class king got a yellow card (and from the board himself!) So he had to say goodbye to one version. Which? The one that loses the most compared to the SUVs prevailing on the sales rankings. Customers can no longer order the new Passat with a sedan body – the car has disappeared from the configurator and says goodbye to the Old Continent.
Hubert Niedzielski, Volkswagen brand PR manager, confirmed that the sedan is no longer available. – Briefly and to the point: we have a closed production of the Passat Limousine version, hence it is not present on the website and we do not accept new orders – he communicated to us when asked for a comment. If someone was thinking about buying this version, he must look for free copies in stock at dealers. This however can be a challenge given problems with the general availability of new cars.
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Screenshot of VW configurator. There is only the Passat Variant
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The end of the three-box Volkswagen Passat in Europe
When Volkswagen began selling the restyled Passat B8 in 2019, the brand boomed on the record: “This is already a 30 millionth car! No other business limousine in the world has ever been sold in greater numbers than the Volkswagen Passat.” And although in the 48 years since the market debut, more than 30 million Passats have been delivered to customers, the decline of sedans means that it is no longer worth producing the three-box variant. Not only in our part of the globe – with your Passat The Americans also said goodbye.
However, the company does not intend to completely kill the iconic model. The withdrawal from the sedan offer does not change the estate market situation – the Volkswagen Passat Variant is still available and can be configured on the website. According to our information, this variety will remain on offer at least until the end of 2023, and maybe even the beginning of 2024. Later it will be replaced by … and not, because it is not. electric SUV! It will simply be a petrol station wagon.
See visualizations: The new Volkswagen Passat – just a station wagon
Although the model does not disappear completely from the market, the end of production of the German sedan also closes an era in the automotive industry. Today, customers are crazy about the more practical SUVs, hatchbacks and station wagons. Classic sedans knocked off the pedestal are a thing of the past, and the Passat is not the first – and it will probably not be the last.
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