Volkswagen Passat CC 1.8 TSI

13/11/2008 10:07. Volkswagen caused a certain amount of confusion - well, I was confused if nobody else was - by announcing that it was going to call this car the CC. When other manufacturers (see Ford and Peugeot) use CC in a name, they mean that the car is a coupé-convertible, but not this one. This is simply the coupé version of the Passat, and the only way of removing the roof is to get busy with a grinder. Best not do that - it won't help residual values.

The "ordinary" Passat is by no means a bad looker, but the CC is several degrees better. What's more, it has a lot more room than the word "coupé" might lead you to believe. There is more space in the back of the standard car, of course, but it's still possible to carry four reasonably-sized adults in the CC.

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