New Volkswagen Passat: More Wagen, More Volk?

Here it is: the new Volkswagen Passat Wagon 2011 VW wants to take America. How can I do? It's $ 7,000 cheaper than the previous Passat, while growing.
Just as it did with the new Jetta, the Passat has dropped the price increase to what they think the American mid-size sedan customers really want - more space for less money. Although started at $ 27,000 the Passat, VW will be sent to a new base model with sub-$ 20,000 sticker, is specifically designed for the mass testing of cupholders in the four-cylinder Camry, contracts and sonatas.

The new Passat will be three engine options: 2.5-liter 5-cylinder, good for 170 horsepower and 177 lb.-ft. torque, 2-liter diesel engine with four cylinders, 3.6-liter VR6 with 280 hp and 258 lb.-ft. Passat has a base five-cylinder with five-speed gearbox, the six-speed automatic to most customers.

VW Passat body has grown four inches to 191.4 inches and now promotes the most legroom in the back of the classroom. As for the interior of the VW promised that the show the similarity Tiguan dashboard "much more expensive car, check.

But the growing-but-get-cheaper Jetta transformation is particularly welcome to his fans. It is also contrary to the efforts of another automaker not normalize their models around the world, but to add more features for all classes of lower prices.

And here's what VW will offer Passat buyers in Europe, where it's still a near-luxury car:

Here, as the new Minister of State for U. S. Golf:
Men from Wolfsburg spend $ 1 billion in new factories in Tennessee only medium sedan. Volkswagen wants the world's largest automaker in 2018, and it takes nearly tripled its sales in the U.S. than 360,000 last year to 1 million 800 thousand, which would be the VW models - makes a big VW and Nissan today.

In America, "Frankly, we lost our way," said Jonathan Browning, VW in the U.S. is safe. "We have become a marginal player in this one of the major world markets. It is not acceptable."

He reached the stage of the band Train, whose lead singer, Pat Monahan thanked the company. "Many of us were conceived in a VW bus, so thanks for life"

For all VW history in the U.S., the beetle and other iconic vehicle that has a history of Americans expect orders from Germany and has excited when they misbehave. It did not work with the Phaeton, Volkswagen is working with a badge indicating the Chrysler minivan than a Microbus revival of his own. If a train that VW wants to maximize the audience for their work. The trick is to get people to tune in instead of tune out.