Volkswagen Is Hunting BMW And Mercedes With A New Premium Four-Door Coupe

In an unusual move for a German brand, Volkswagen has released a fairly detailed teaser design drawing three months ahead of its motor show debut

Matt Kimberley

28 Nov 2016

Volkswagen Is Hunting BMW And Mercedes With A New Premium Four-Door Coupe

Volkswagen is going upmarket again, but rather than replace the ill-fated Phaeton directly, the new Arteon is going to sit just a little above the Passat.

That potentially puts it in direct competition with the Volkswagen Group’s own Audi A7, as well as rivals from BMW and Mercedes.

Three months before the covers come off at the Geneva Motor Show, Volkswagen has sent out a teaser drawing of the four-door coupé. It looks reminiscent of the CC, formerly the Passat CC, but with even sleeker lines befitting a concept car.

That said, it also looks pretty close to a production-ready design. Let’s hope the name doesn’t stick, though. It’s a bit pretentious. It’s a conjunction of ‘art’, because it’s fit to hang in any gallery, obviously, and ‘eon’, which is Volkswagen’s recently-adopted suffix indicating a special premium model.

We don’t yet know whether the Arteon, or whatever it ends up being called, will be sold in Europe or the US but it’s almost guaranteed to go to China. It’s also likely to use hybrid and electric power as well as internal combustion.

Comments

aammm….do you mean this one?

Hum you mean Audi right

But, then they select Porsche, to not make a mistake, like the emmisons, but it is not controlable, and volkswagen lose in a lawsuit about a man who was driving normaly, and the car crashed, and go bankrupt

THE END

Better be all electric.

I hope they call it the CC still

This would only sell well in countries like China where people like to ride in a A8 but want other people to think they’re riding in a Jetta. Now you can ride in a A7/6GC/CLS which other people think is a CC!