VW Passat exceeded 30 million

19 June 2019

In Germany, produced the 30 millionth VW Passat

Volkswagen held a solemn event dedicated to the issue of 30 million anniversary car model Passat.
The anniversary car was produced in the German plant in Emden.

To the present impressive figure I had to go 46 years edition front-wheel drive Passat models first generation B1 (Type 32) with the body design developed by Studio Italdesign, was launched in the spring of 1973 and began saving for the Volkswagen group, it is hard experiencing the first oil crisis that hit demand for its main rear-engined model Beatle (VW1200).

It is with this 3-door hatchback series B1 (it included another five-door the hatchback and wagon) began in 1973, long life model Volkswagen Passat

It was the first Passat model in the VW line-up got its own name in honor of the East wind, not the index (expected Type 511), and since then, all VW models wore just their own names.

The bar 15 million Passat managed to take in April 2007. To date, was replaced by eight generations of the model not counting the four-door coupe Passat CC.

Jubilee 30-millionth copy of the car was a station wagon (generation B8) with a hybrid setup in the performance of GTE, painted in silver color.

At the meeting it was said that today the Volkswagen Passat, the amount of produced cars is second only to the Golf series with its 35 million issued since 1974.
In better years every fifth sold car brand Volkswagen is Passat models, and today only one in ten. And yet Volkswagen Passat – the world's most popular model in its class (segment D), and its Assembly was organized into 10 companies of the world, the model is sold in more than 100 countries.

PS According to the German press, the Volkswagen Group may cease production of the Passat in 2020.