Volkswagen Passat (B2)

The Volkswagen Passat (B2) is an automobile that Volkswagen produced from 1981 to 1988, the second generation of the Passat on a platform slightly longer than the B1 and, like it, based on the Audi 80, whose B2 version had been launched in 1978. The body configurations were hatchback, Variant estate and a three-box saloon, marketed as the Volkswagen Santana in Europe until the 1985 facelift. The four-wheel drive Syncro Variant arrived in April 1984, at first with the two-litre five-cylinder engine and from August with a 2.2 litre option. The Santana was also made in China, Brazil, Mexico as the Corsar, and Argentina as the Carat, and the Brazilian Santana wagon was sold as the Quantum, as were both bodies in the United States. South Africa built the Passat until 1987, and production of the B2 in China ended in January 2013.