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Oooh, look! It’s another official VW sketch of its North America and China-only, Passat-replacing New Midsize Sedan (NMS). Never mind product strategy, on a clear day will you be able to see out those windows? Hit the jump for the old official sketch. For contrast. Ish.
21 Comments on “What’s Wrong With This Picture?: Midsize Mainstream Meshuga Edition...”
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Me likey very much. Turns out the suspension on my GTI is just too firm and sporty. I must be getting old. When the time comes it might be the one. That or a CC… or a A5…
Lots of modern Honda and Volvo design cues in there.
When will manufacturers understand that it is SO unsafe to drive a car with so little visibility? Style over function… while everyone loves a beautiful low slung sports car with little or no visibility, why on earth would you want one in a family sedan?
I’m a VW fan, but to me the bottom picture looks like a Volt, a Camaro and an original Lexus LS400 had a menage-a-designer. And the gun-slit windows are the “cab forward” of the late 2000’s.
The bottom 1/4 of the wheels are completely flat! While it looks good standing still, it’d make for a very bumpy ride once you start driving- espeically since no tires will fit and your just left with a little rubber painted on the wheels.
Must be the Meshuga Mieskeit LX
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October 28th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
The bottom 1/4 of the wheels are completely flat! While it looks good standing still, it’d make for a very bumpy ride once you start driving- espeically since no tires will fit and your just left with a little rubber painted on the wheels.
That was the first thing I noticed too. If you want to put huge wheels on something, feel free to actually draw the whole wheel in there so you can fully see how stupid it looks and how far off the ground you would be.
Looks like a 4 door Camaro.
Looks a lot like the current Accord to me.
Worst thing about it: it’s no hatch.
Next worst thing: it looks like a Camaro+Challenger offspring with a VW badge.
The C-pillar looks oddly like an Impala. That can’t be what they were going for.
Can’t someone do a retro-homage to the greenhouse of the 635CSi? Big bulbous hoods, tall doors, gun slit windows – I’d feel like a little kid in many cars today.
If that’s a midsize sedan, then nobody taller than 5 feet will fit in an upright seat inside of it.
It is just a concept. Not likely to build a sedan like that.
Steven02: Exactly. It’s VW’s concept of an American mainstream midsize sedan. Japanese bland meets domestic bunker design. As stimulating as a handful of Ambien. Yawn.
Now imagine the production model.
American mainstream midsize sedan
How stunning do you expect a mainstream midsize sedan to be?
The main things that I would expect to see in a production model would be the front end design and the shape of the greenhouse.
Gangster-style slit windows are not really part of the VW design language, so I wouldn’t expect to see them on the new Passat, either, regardless of the sketches.
IMO, it looks like crap on wheels. When VW will understand (if ever) that it is not in the looks department their cars are sucking. It’s quality, stupid.
@autonut – VW never sucked on quality. reliability and dealer service are what they have needed to work on.
So, what’s the difference? Now it has B-pillars and flat tires, big deal.
Criticism of design sketches is always so amusing.