, Volkswagen will allegedly scrap only the sedan version of the Passat as part of its focus on electric vehicles., unnamed sources have alleged that the MQB underpinned European-spec model, as well as the older PQ46 derivative sold in the United States, will not be renewed in sedan guise but become an estate exclusive for the first time in its now 47 year history.
One of Wolfsburg’s oldest nameplates, and also the top-selling D-segment sedan on the Old Continent with sales last month, according to the publication, of 88 478 units, the end of the Passat will result in the retooling of the Emden factory for production of theProduction of estate only Passat will still take place in Europe, but at the Bratislava Plant in Slovakia alongside the Skoda Superb, which will continue to use same platform and offer a sedan bodystyle in order to avoid a potential...