It's Official: A VW Arteon 'Shooting Brake' Is Happening, And It Might Have A VR6

With a massive hatchback boot and plenty of interior space, you could hardly accuse the VW Arteon of being impractical. But if you do want an even more Ikea-friendly take on the car, you’re in luck: VW has confirmed that it’s going to make a ‘shooting brake’ estate version.

As we can see via the render above from X-Tomi Design, it’s set to be a handsome thing. And potentially fast: Car Throttle was told last year that VW has been actively testing a new 3.0-litre, turbocharged VR6 engine with around 400bhp for the Arteon hatch, which - if approved for production - would inevitably end up in this estate version too.

It’s not as far fetched as it sounds, either: VW does already have a 2.5-litre turbocharged VR6 engine in the Teramont - the Chinese market version of the Atlas. A 3.0-litre engine based on VW’s unusual narrow-angle, staggered piston V6 format - which uses a single cylinder bank rather than two - would be a very good thing indeed.

As for the wagon-ified Arteon itself, there’s no indication as to when it’ll come out, but we’d expect to see it in some form before the end of the year.

Source: Auto Express