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Volkswagen Passat 1996
Production year: 1996
No. of produced cars: Information not available at the moment.
An all-new Passat, based on the Volkswagen Group B5 platform, was launched in 1996 in Continental Europe, in February 1997 in the United Kingdom, and 1998 in North America. Its PL45 platform was shared with the first-generation “Typ 8D” Audi A4, which was unveiled 2 years earlier, and saw a return to the Passat sharing its longitudinal engine layout platform with Audi‘s equivalent model for the first time since the second-generation (B2) Passat of 1981, which shared its platform with the second-generation “Typ 81” Audi 80/Audi 90 (the A4 is the successor to the Audi 80 line).
Volkswagen Passat 1996 Front
Volkswagen Passat 1996 Back
Volkswagen Passat 1996 Interior
