cars.com auto review hi I'm Joe wiesenfelder cars.com and this sleek black beauty
is a volkswagen CC a new model for 2009 originally was going to be called the
passat CC because it's based on the passat they decided that was a bad idea
I agree now you can tell the difference is it's in the roofline it's one of
these hoop sedans are talking about these days it still has four doors but
it's a much faster roofline as they call it this window comes way back with a
really short trunk lid here so you get a pretty different-looking rear end then
you get in the passat sedan
now this model is the higher trim level 2 vr6 with a six-cylinder engine instead
of a turbo for it also happens to have 4motion all-wheel drive which is great
here in the winter as are these all season tires now this version is 18 inch
wheels instead of 17 this one as it's equipped is over forty thousand dollars
like 43 even though the base CC comes in slightly less than the base massage the
quality is mostly pretty nice for the money with one exception here the
tailpipe stick out awfully far considering they're not chrome they're
not polished stainless steel that cutouts in the bumper or actually pretty
big you can see in there for 40,000 come on Mike in like a month now the quark
report starts here one of the courts that I find out is when you hit the
unlock on the fob the windows all around all four of them automatically go down
now we've seen cars where when you pull on the handle it goes down slightly
because it's a frameless situation and when you close it the window pops back
up into the channel and that basically helps seal it keeps a quiet and all that
stuff
it's weird that they go down automatically like that that's a little
bit of draft in maybe a little snow i see why though when you go and you sneak
up on and pull it open it catches at the top and that's not good
now of course if you give it a light pole first the window comes down
no problem now you'll notice with this sleek low roofline curves down it's
actually pretty easy to bring yourself getting in and out which I've done way
too many times now the court report continues with the key 5 you started by
putting the whole thing into the slot you don't have to step on the brake
which is interesting
and maybe it's me but most of the time and get to work on the first try
that's a little bit weird but in terms of interior quality it's really good
this is the vr6 so it's leather nice supported seats the base model has
leatherette which is a way to save vinyl but it is at least nice vinyl real
aluminum in this vr6 just generally really well done its what volkswagen is
known for in terms of headroom now compared to the regular massage only
about an inch less technically the legroom is actually slightly better but
I do feel like I'm sitting lower and my legs are a little bit farther out in
front of it back here the quality again generally pretty good i'm not wild about
the plastic here in the middle and this fold-down armrest is not folks wagons
best work
I'm all right at six feet tall legroom really about the same as the passat this
seat is all the way back
what's interesting is to keep the roof as high as possible the the moonroof the
glass skylight i guess i should call it doesn't slide back it only tilt up just
a little bit disappointing when you consider how huge it looks from the
outside now because of the short deck here the trunk opening is not real big
and 13 cubic feet it's not really roomy but it seems kind of big to me
the passat sedan is about 14 14 and a half cubic feet and you get a full-size
spare tire in here which is good and basically you can use all the space
inside the despair there and it helps that the seats fold down there split
60-percent forty percent now terms of driving the CC is really nice
the ride quality is little firmer than the regular passat the steering's great
the power trains are impressive basically you're trading a little
headroom but no interior volume for this different race here styling if the way
people have reacted to it as any clue
it'll do really well the issue is are you going to pay over forty thousand
dollars for volkswagen to get a six cylinder and all-wheel drive through
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