1998 Volkswagen Passat Pictures

Pictures Volkswagen Passat
Pictures Volkswagen Passat
Pictures Volkswagen Passat
Pictures Volkswagen Passat
Pictures Volkswagen Passat
Pictures Volkswagen Passat
Pictures Volkswagen Passat
Pictures Volkswagen Passat
Pictures Volkswagen Passat
Pictures Volkswagen Passat
Pictures Volkswagen Passat
Pictures Volkswagen Passat
Pictures Volkswagen Passat
Pictures Volkswagen Passat
Pictures Volkswagen Passat

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The Passat is offered as a four-door sedan or four-door wagon with a 1.8-liter/150-hp turbocharged inline-four or a 2.8-liter/190-hp V-6. Choose between a 5-speed manual or 5-speed automatic transmission. ABS is standard.

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The Volkswagen Passat is a family car built by Volkswagen through six design generations since 1973. Falling between the Golf/ Jetta and Phaeton in the current Volkswagen line-up, the Passat has been badged variously as Dasher, Santana, Quantum, Magotan, Corsar and Carat.

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More recently, Volkswagen has extended its range with the launch of the Passat CC, a 4-door "coupé" version of the Passat.

The Passat falls in the middle of the sedan/ saloon market segment and was critical to Volkswagen on its introduction in 1973, as the sales of the aging Beetle were declining, and larger air-cooled rear-engined models like the Volkswagen Type 3 and 411 and 412 based on older technology were also failing to take hold in the market.[citation needed]

Following the Volkswagen Group's acquisition of Audi in 1964, Volkswagen used new engineering expertise to develop a modern front-wheel drive car with a water-cooled engine, and thus the Passat and Golf (the latter being introduced in 1974) were the first of a new generation of Volkswagens. The first Passat was developed directly from the Audi 80/ Fox and until 2005 the two shared a history.

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The original Volkswagen Passat was launched in 1973. The body types offered originally were 2- and 4-door sedans and similar looking three- and five-door versions. Externally all four shared a modern fastback style design, styled by the Italian designer Giorgetto Giugiaro. In essence, the first Passat was a fastback version of the mechanically identical Audi 80 sedan, introduced a year earlier. A five-door station wagon/ estate was introduced in 1974. In Europe, the Passat was equipped with 2 rectangular, 2 round 7", or 4 round 5.5" headlights depending on specification.



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