In fact, its wide, strongly-horizontal bearing is as much a reminder of the Phaeton as it is of the Touareg. Following the lines of the heavily-chrome-accented front end back along the absolutely flat shoulder, the new Passat presents itself as upscale middle-management transport that acts as a stepping stone to the range-topping Phaeton. It’ll arrive later this year, and we expect to get our first in-person look at it at the Paris Motor Show<\/a>.<\/p>\n [Source: Auto Bild<\/a> (translated<\/a>)]<\/p>\n Spy shots: 2011 VW Passat is eine kleine<\/i> Phaeton<\/a> originally appeared on Autoblog<\/a> on Sat, 22 May 2010 11:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read<\/a> | Permalink<\/a> | Email this<\/a> | Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Filed under: Spy Photos, Sedan, Paris Motor Show, Volkswagen The first leaked shot of the 2011 Volkswagen Passat has apparently surfaced in Germany’s Auto Bild. Assuming it’s accurate, the mid-sized sedan boasts one of the straightest interpretations of VW’s new design language. In fact, its wide, strongly-horizontal bearing is as much a reminder of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/05\/vwpassatspy.jpg\")
<\/a>The first leaked shot of the 2011 Volkswagen<\/a> Passat has apparently surfaced in Germany’s Auto Bild<\/em>. Assuming it’s accurate, the mid-sized sedan boasts one of the straightest interpretations of VW’s new design language. <\/p>\n<\/h6>\n