大众帕萨特改款车将于今年晚些时候在欧洲上市，最近谍照记者首次拍到了该车。这辆原型车只是在前后脸进行了伪装，考虑到这只是一辆中期改款车，因此只是对前后保险杠和照明系统进行轻度改款。从照片看，这辆车的前大灯与现行版略有不同，而尾灯组也采用新的形状。这辆帕萨特是否采用Arteon风格的前格栅和大灯还有待观察，但从这辆测试车的车头造型与老款车很接近这一点判断，似乎不太可能采用类似Arteon的前脸设计。值得注意的是，这辆原型车的后轴部分非常低，似乎是行李箱或者后排座椅重载。或许是车厂为了获得测试车辆的数据而采取的方法，这一点此前在其他车辆上也曾出现。虽然这次没有拍到车辆内装，但预计新车内部不会有很大改变。新车有可能配备取自高尔夫改款车和Arteon的新的信息娱乐系统，但不会采用2019款途锐的科技含量很高的“InnovisionCockpit”数字驾驶舱，而后者需要采用全新仪表板。虽然目前还不清楚新车动力系统细节，但如果帕萨特GTE插电混动版获得升级，提供更长距离纯电动续航里程也丝毫不奇怪。虽然是一厢情愿但我们仍希望能看到搭载V6引擎的R版本，搭载这台引擎的Arteon功率超过了300马力。欧宝帕萨特改款车将在未来几个月后发布。

 

2019 VW Passat Spied Hiding Facelift For Europe

Confirmed to debut later this year, the facelifted Volkswagen Passat in European guise has been spotted for the first time by our agile spy photographers. The prototype had camouflage only on the front and rear fascias, which isn’t all that surprising considering mid-cycle refreshes are usually about discreetly reworked bumpers and mildly tweaked lighting clusters.

 

That seems to be the case with the midsize sedan from Wolfsburg as we’re already seeing the headlights are a little bit different while the taillights feature new graphics. Whether the Passat will get an Arteon-inspired front grille meeting the headlight remains to be seen, but it doesn’t look like it judging by this test vehicle as the front end treatment is very similar to the outgoing model. We can’t help but notice the refreshed Passat was carrying a heavy load in the trunk and/or the rear seats as the prototype was riding extremely low on the rear axle. We’ve seen that before on other cars and it’s probably a method to obtain data used by automakers while testing work-in-progress vehicles.

 

Although we can’t have a look inside the cabin in this first batch of spy shots, we are not expecting any big changes. There’s a good chance it will get the new infotainment systems from the Golf facelift and the Arteon, but not the tech-heavy Innovision Cockpit of the 2019 Touareg as that would basically require a completely new dashboard.

 

There’s nothing to report just yet about the oily bits, although we won’t be too surprised if the Passat GTE plug-in hybrid will be updated to provide a longer pure electric range. It’s only wishful thinking, but we’d really like to see an R version with the new turbocharged V6 engine VW is working on for a hotter Arteon with more than 300 horsepower.

 

An official reveal of the Euro-spec VW Passat is slated to occur in the coming months.