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Volkswagen CC

As Volkswagen takes dramatic steps to make itslineup more attractive to Americans, it is making its lineup simply lessattractive. The new Jetta andPassatare both bigger and cheaper than the cars they replace, but they're alsorather boring looking. Boring is a word nobody would use to describe the VolkswagenCC, until maybe now. VW will be showing off an updated CC at the L.A. auto showlater this month, and the good news is that the sultry sedan gets a bit more standardcontent. The bad news is it now wears VW's new corporate grille.

We Saw This Coming

The old CC's plunging, double-height grille isgone, replaced by a piece that looks as if it were plucked right off of the2012 Passat. Likewise, the head- and taillights have been reshaped from thesculpted fare on last year's model into larger, simpler units. That this wouldhappen was obvious when we spied a camouflaged CC out testing this past summer.It's not ugly, and the net effect is not as bad as we'd feared, but the new,simpler shapes up front rob the car of some of its glamour. If the lights aretoned down, at least their illumination power has been cranked up: adaptivebi-xenon headlights and LED taillights are now standard.

Fortunately, little else changes for the CC. Its 200-hp,turbocharged 2.0-liter four and available 280-hp, 3.6-liter narrow-angle V-6engines will carry over. Unlike the Passat, which moved to a larger platform inits 2012 redesign, the CC remains on the old architecture. Volkswagen isn'ttalking pricing yet, holding that information until closer to the March 2012on-sale date, but don't expect any major changes. The current CC starts justbelow $30,000 when equipped with the 2.0-liter turbo and a manual transmission,and reaches all the way up to $41,210 for an Executive model equipped with4Motion all-wheel drive and the V-6. Even with a little less glam, it'll be anenticing package, but c'mon, VW. You didn't have to do this.

http://www.caranddriver.com/news/2013-volkswagen-cc-auto-shows

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