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Last week, Volkswagen displayed a sheet-covered Volkswagen NMS on its website, adage “The sleeker, roomier, all-new, German-engineered 2012 ___. Fill in the bare on January 10th.” Volkswagen abounding in the bare yesterday: accommodated the 2012 Volkswagen Passat.

The name isn’t new, but for 2012 archetypal year, Volkswagen fabricated some austere changes. First, the 2012 Passat will be produced in the United States. “The new Passat, which is aimed absolutely at such accepted midsize ancestors sedans as the Honda Accord and the Toyota Camry, is the aboriginal car to cycle out of VW’s new $1-billion Chattanooga bulb in Tennessee,” says Inside Line. “It was advised accurately for the U.S. market.”

In accession to getting US-born, Volkswagen alone the Passat’s starting amount to accomplish it added attainable to shoppers on a budget. The Passat will alpha about $20,000, about $7,000 beneath than the antecedent model. Does a cheaper amount beggarly the Passat will attending and feel like a $20k sedan? Volkswagen says no. “VW says it hasn’t cheapened the car for the lower price, and hopes to abstain the criticism it took that it backslid on appearance and technology to accomplish the lower abject amount on the redesigned 2011 Jetta compact,” USA Today states. “Instead, architecture Passat at its new branch in Chattanooga, Tenn., and affairs locations from U.S.-based sources cuts the costs abundant to acquiesce the desperate amount reduction, VW says.”

The Passst’s engine options acquire afflicted a bit back endure year, too. Previously, the Passat had a 2.0-liter TSI engine. Now there are three options: a 2.5-liter engine that produces 170 horsepower, a 3.6-liter engine that pumps 280 application and a 2.0-liter TDI Clean Diesel engine. Volkswagen predicts that the TDI archetypal will get 43 mpg on the highway, which is added than the Ford Fusion Hybrid’s 41 mpg artery appraisement from the EPA.

As for looks, account the 2011 Volkswagen Jetta, which was absolutely redesigned endure year, and accomplish it larger. “The 2012 Volkswagen Passat was developed accurately for the North American market, which agency it’s accommodation are bigger and fatter,” CNET reports. “Riding on a best wheelbase, its all-embracing breadth has developed from 187.6 to 191.7 inches. The best wheelbase opens up added legroom in the additional row and puts the ancestors auto added in band with its competitors.”

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