Three months ahead of its world premiere at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2017, Volkswagen has teased its new, four-door premium saloon, the Arteon. The totally new model will sit above the Passat and replace the outgoing Passat CC.
The Arteon’s design cues will include radiator grille bars that extend into the three-dimensional headlights with LED lighting elements, doors with frame-less windows, along with a top-hinged and wide-opening tailgate.
Tobias Sühlmann, Exterior Designer, explains: “At first sight, the Arteon arouses enthusiasm through its expressive design. It then surprises through its practical virtues. This combination is unique.”
The name Arteon – with the emphasis put on the first syllable – is made up of two component parts: ‘Art’, that describes the saloon’s design, while the ending ‘eon’ identifies it, in the same way as Volkswagen’s top model for the Chinese market, the PHIDEON, as a premium model.
The new Arteon is being publicly unveiled for the first time at the Geneva Motor Show; its launch will then follow in summer 2017.