25/09/2008 21:17. OK, prepare to be as surprised as I was at the first live look at the latest segment-busting car from VW. I had only previously seen one picture of the car's exterior prior to the launch down here in Georgia, and, frankly, I thought the Passat CC was going to be a larger sedan.

As it turns out, it's not. The CC is a smallish car, related to the Passat we already know mostly by the name they share. Oh, and to clear up a couple of the obvious questions, the "CC" in the name stands for "comfort coupe," according to VW Canada's CEO John White; and the reason I am going to keep referring to it as a sedan is that it has four doors.

The CC is a remarkable bit of styling from the German automaker; it could truly be called a powerful design statement (which is what the maker was after, of... // The Kingston Whig-Standard