Volkswagen Passat (B6)

The Volkswagen Passat (B6 and B7) is a front-engine D-segment large family car that Volkswagen manufactured and marketed from 2005 to 2011 as the B6 and from 2010 to 2015 as the B7 facelift, the sixth and seventh generations. Both were sold as sedan and wagon with front-wheel and all-wheel drive and a range of petrol and diesel engines. The B6 debuted at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2005 and reached Europe that summer, on a long-wheelbase version of the fifth generation Golf and Jetta platform with a transverse engine. In North America it was superseded by a model built only at the Chattanooga plant, while the B7 facelift, shown at the Paris Motor Show in September 2010, continued globally elsewhere. In Asia FAW-VW sold the PQ46 car as the Magotan. Variants included the Passat CC and the VR6 R36.