It appears that despite slowing sales, Volkswagen isn't ready to
give up on its dapper CC sedan
yet. VW of America CEO Michael
Horn says that a sleek, new design is being worked on and could be
here in about two years.
Horn tells Motor
Trend that there are two ways for the next CC's design to go at
the moment. One of them would be a four-door coupe with a fastback hatch design
like the Audi A7. He didn't
indicate what the other possibility was.
Units sold in North America may even be built locally.
"With the cost of production going up, we're looking at the business case,
but maybe there's another option, of waiting 2-3 years and getting the CC built
here in the US or in Mexico," Horn says. He goes on to note that the same
might happen with assembly of the next Tiguan as well.
The CC has always been the fancy, more stylish brother to
the Passat –
in fact, it was originally known as the Passat CC. But with that extra flair
comes a wicked price increase. At the moment, the two models differ by over
$10,000 in their base retail prices, a reality that has likely has something to
do with the fact that the current CC is still built in Germany and is based on
the far more costly European Passat, not the larger, lower-cost North American
architecture.
Sales have been sluggish for the CC recently. In April, VW
sold just 946 examples, down 42.8 percent, and sales so far this year have
totaled 3,920 units, down 31.7 percent. That's about a tenth of the numbers of
its sibling, which itself isn't doing as well as Wolfsburg would like.
In the MT piece, Horn also comes close to verifying our
suspicions about the Golf Sportwagen.
When VW sent out
photos of the new wagon, some of them included the 4Motion badge, yet no
all-wheel drive model has been announced. While he didn't confirm it, the CEO
admits an AWD variant is likely to make it to North America.
News Source: Motor
Trend
Image Credit: Copyright 2014 Michael Harley / AOL
source: autoblog
by Chris Bruce
http://www.boscheuropean.com
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