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So, it is here…   not a new generation but a new version of the current Passat model. CC means Comfort Coupe, it is a bit unusual because in most cases CC is more a coupe cabriolet. With this Volkswagen gave us four doors and a fixed roof.
Yesterday i went to the local Volkswagen dealer to check how it looks in real life. Well it is really impressive and it definitely has something that the standard Passat doesn’t. I’m a Passat owner so it was easy to find the differences and improvements over the standard model. The CC is a bit bigger but the lines running from the grill to the tail lights are more noticeable. The front of the car looks really good, i like it better than the conventional Passat. The back is nice too but i feel the lights a bit too big and here is an important note about the lights: It seems Volkswagen made a step back and put standard bulbs instead of some state of the art LED technique. This is too bad, the LED lights are great in many ways.
Inside the car the most eye-catching improvements are the touch screen color LCD and the new climate control under it. Also there is a new LCD between the gauges so no more black and red pictures. The new audio system looks really good and there is an SD card slot right under the main LCD display for MP3 files. This is the RCD-510 by the way, i think it’s worth the little additional price.
Here are two factory photos. I’ll post some of my own as soon as i have the opportunity to take some:

Link to Volkswagen Passat CC minisite

During our first visit of Germany we not just looked around in the Phaeton factory but had the opportunity to see this amazing city too! As I mentioned in the previous post we had only a weekend so mostly we were on a bus but fortunately we had a little time to walk around as well. The outer district of the city was a bit similar to several parts of Budapest, like abandoned factory buildings and houses. After we left these places we saw some new and big factories like AMD and Infineon, then we entered the centre of the place. I took a lot of photos so you can see this beautiful city and also some of its amazing buildings like the newly rebuilt Frauenkirche, the long and so detailed Fürstenzug…

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We’ve been invited to the home of Phaeton, the biggest Volkswagen model. It was only a weekend but we enjoyed it so much. Of course, we were prohibited from taking photos in the production area, so I’ve posted pictures taken from only public areas of the building that was equally impressive. It is still unbelievable… this is a car factory? it was too clean and somehow unreal!
The factory is located really close to the centre of Dresden. They use the tram system for most of the heavy cargo traffic.

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