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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse) 05/02/2015 at 15:35 • Filed to: VW, Passat, B8

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Here’s a B8 Passat, just like you can buy at your friendly VW dealer (unless you live west of the Atlantic of course).

Pic by Thomas Doerfer who I’m supposed to credit.

As we can see it looks just like the previous one except for the somewhat slitty and excessively browed front end and LED rear lights (no, you can’t see them but trust me, they’re there).

No marks for originality here then but as I already see rather more of these than of the latest Ford Mondeo which arrived at the same time I expect VW know their buyers.

That doesn’t mean that VW have done nothing new though. You see, if you get an automatic Passat you get a new 7 speed DSG. As you’d expect this has seven sets of gears.

If however you wait a bit the more powerful models will get a 10 speed DSG. This also has seven sets of gears. Now, there’s a bit of originality.

TheHondaBro > Cé hé sin 05/02/2015 at 15:39

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That’s... A good-looking Passat. Here’s ours:

Cé hé sin > TheHondaBro 05/02/2015 at 15:40

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Never mind, you might get the B8 sometime!

MLGCarGuy > TheHondaBro 05/02/2015 at 16:08

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Just gonna leave this here.

AM > Cé hé sin 05/02/2015 at 16:10

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This is a very handsome car. Wish we got the B8 already. Here’s as good as our Passat’s get:

At least our CC is the same as the Euro spec:

AM > MLGCarGuy 05/02/2015 at 16:10

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hnngggg

carcrasher88 > Cé hé sin 05/02/2015 at 16:20

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That makes me get to wondering if the real reason that we got the NMS Passat is because they wanted something new because the B7 was actually just a facelifted B6, a car that had been around since 2005, and we might actually get the B8 sooner or later.

Klaus Schmoll > Cé hé sin 05/02/2015 at 17:31

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Am I alone in thinking that this is a car that looks better in pictures than it does in person?

Cé hé sin > Klaus Schmoll 05/02/2015 at 17:39

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I don’t know - it does have a certain presence when you see it.

Klaus Schmoll > Cé hé sin 05/02/2015 at 18:27

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So far, I did barely notice them. Maybe it was due to the fact that most of them were in this brown metal flake that is the hight of fashion right now but does nothing to me.

Cé hé sin > Klaus Schmoll 05/02/2015 at 18:37

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That’s interesting.

The ones I see tend to be just as in the picture.