2023 Volkswagen Passat Variant spy photographs: Redesign for international Passat

Volkswagen has been noticed testing a prototype for a redesigned Passat.

It is due out in 2023 and is anticipated to be supplied solely in wagon type, which VW refers to as a Variant.

Do not search for the brand new Passat to succeed in the U.S. It would not attain these shores even when it had a sedan possibility. That is as a result of the Passat offered within the U.S., which bows out after 2022, makes use of a separate, less-expensive platform to Passats offered in the remainder of the world.

The worldwide Passat makes use of Volkswagen Group’s MQB platform, and the redesigned mannequin will use an up to date model of this platform. The worldwide Passat’s company twin, the Skoda Excellent, can be as a result of be redesigned shortly on the up to date MQB platform. Nevertheless, it’s anticipated to be out there in each sedan and wagon physique types.

You could be questioning why no sedan shall be supplied for the Passat. Whereas the physique fashion is on the decline in most markets, aside from China, VW will quickly have a Passat sedan various within the type a manufacturing model of its ID.Aero idea automobile proven earlier this 12 months. The electrical sedan, which is tipped to go by the title ID.6, has additionally been noticed testing.

The ID.6 can be due in 2023, and there is a good likelihood we see it within the U.S. An ID.6 wagon can be deliberate and optimistically we’ll additionally see this physique fashion in native showrooms.

Manufacturing of the brand new Passat will happen at VW Group’s plant in Bratislava, Slovakia.

The powertrain lineup ought to encompass a collection of inline-4s, together with some in plug-in hybrid configuration. A redesigned Passat Alltrack soft-roader also needs to be coming.