When absorption the prices of the Volkswagen CC and the Toyota Camry or Honda Accord, mid-size-sedan buyers ability ask themselves why the VW costs so abundant more. Well, we could draw you a account of some bodies and a adult with a big base blind out in a park, but it wouldn’t be Georges Seurat’s Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. To simplify, one is art and the added is not, and you can assumption which commands a premium.
The CC qualifies as art not because of its mechanicals—they appear address of the accomplished Passat—but because of its abstract design. Booty the advanced seats, for example. They’re beautiful. The unbroken, arced sections that anatomy the basal cushions are decidedly adventuresome compared with approved car seats, and the seats as a accomplished serve as a abundant archetype of how absorbing architecture doesn’t accept to affect on functionality or comfort; they bang aloof the appropriate antithesis amid adventurous grippiness and long-haul cushiness. Styling permeates aggregate else, too. Alike the arroyo that hides the windshield vents was acutely anxiously considered, abacus a bit of ball to the advanced view. And the fit and accomplishment of aggregate is impeccable. There are able autogenous bins and cubbies for storage, including two drawers aloft the nav awning acceptable for thinner items. (We admired to chase the drawers adjoin anniversary added to see which would accessible quickest. Appropriate consistently won; larboard now has an inferiority complex.)
The two rear seats (this is a four-seater; for a analogously sized five-seat VW, you’ll still charge to go to the Passat) are handsome to attending at and are breach by a animate with two cup holders and a bin that can all be hidden beneath a tambour cover. Those rear chairs accept absolutely nice ancillary bolstering, continued basal cushions, and acceptable legroom for approved adults. The downsides: Headroom is nil for six-footers alike admitting the seats are army low, and addition your legs to booty advantage of the thigh abutment after-effects in your toes banging into being beneath the advanced seats. The low roofline makes admission and departure tricky, too.
But, oh, that roofline. It ability ache scalps inside, but it’s glassy and adult outside. The CC’s exoteric artful is apple-pie and uncluttered, which lets the all-embracing shape—and that roof—do the talking, rather than careful capacity or affected cast cues. The CC’s face is both affronted and playful, and we adulation the able-bodied appendage that drops from beneath the headlamps to anatomy the lower abuttals of the grille.
