Volkswagen Debuts New Luxury Arteon Sedan

The new Volkswagen Arteon, the German car maker's up-market replacement for the discontinued CC, has been revealed at the 2017 Geneva motor show.
 
First previewed by the Sport Coupe Concept in 2015, the new five-door fastback slots into the Volkswagen line-up above the eighth-generation Passat, with which it shares its platform, engines, chassis and interior.
 
The styling of the Arteon is credited to Volkswagen brand design boss, Klaus Bischoff, who describes the new model as "the start of a new design era".    
 
Set to crown the Volkswagen passenger car line-up when Australian sales get underway in early 2018, it retains the highly contemporary lines of the well received Sport Coupe Concept, albeit with detailed changes to its prominent grille, which forms part of a distinctive full width graphic at the front of the new Volkswagen model in combination with its LED headlamps.
 
Further design elements carried over from the earlier concept include a contoured clamshell style bonnet, highly detailed air duct design within the front bumper, heavily flanged wheel arches, prominent shoulder line along the flanks, distinctive scalloping within the lower section of the doors, curved roofline, muscular rear hunches, fastback tailgate, horizontally positioned LED tail lamps and twin trapezoidal shaped tailpipes integrated within the lower section of the rear bumper.
 
The Arteon will be offered with three different styling packages: standard, elegance and R-line. In its most sporting guise, the new five-door fastback receives high gloss black air intakes at the front, uniquely styled bumpers, chrome embellishments within the lower bodywork, 18-inch alloy wheels and chromed tailpipes.
 
At 4862mm in length, 1871mm in width and 1427mm in height, the Arteon is 60mm longer, 16mm wider and 10mm taller than its predecessor, the CC.