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Detroit Auto Show: You though only Lexus could do it - VW Passat CC parks itself

omarrana submitted on 1/15/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 2:41:19 PM

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So you’re all very impressed with the Lexus LS and its Self-Parking option huh? Well watch out Lexus because here comes Volkswagen with the new Passat CC, which was unveiled at the 2008 Detroit Auto Show, and it also parks itself.

Available as an option on the Passat CC, the “Park Assist” feature ‘automatically guides the Passat CC into a parking space at the push of a button. The driver...

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Detroit Auto Show: You though only Lexus could do it - VW Passat CC parks itself

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VW had this technology before lexus in their micro vans either way i don't thin it is that necessary
— kpaxx (View Profile)

Posted on 1/16/2008 11:09:01 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3

Toyota had self-parking technology on JDM Prius models back in 2003. Of course this fact is continuously overlooked by everyone here.
— Anthony (View Profile)

Posted on 1/16/2008 9:46:37 PM | | Votes: 3

Who cares. It's just marketing.

To me it looks ridiculous. Learn how to drive!

Other than that, that new Passat Coupe is stunning. A lot of emotion in that front-end. Not sure about the back-end though.
— SevorbeupstryIsBack (View Profile)

Posted on 1/19/2008 9:27:57 AM | | Votes: 0

hopefully this is better than the feeble parking technology in the LS. the lexus version requires that the spot be 6 FEET bigger than the car to work! anyone who needs help with a spot that big shouldn't have a license.
— enthusiastx11 (View Profile)

Posted on 1/16/2008 11:35:57 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: -2

Wrong go to a Lexus and lie and say your interested in buying one,and try it for yourself instead of speculating.
— autopro (View Profile)

Posted on 1/16/2008 4:19:34 PM | | Votes: 1

i believe its 3 feet.
— LexusKindaGuy12 (View Profile)

Posted on 1/16/2008 4:25:01 PM | | Votes: 3

Oh, please... I hope this doesn't make it to the Audi line.

It will sell Passats, but the novelty will wear off.
— S4cabriofoxone (View Profile)

Posted on 1/16/2008 11:37:51 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0

To VW's credit, it's easier to use, but that's still not enough.
— S4cabriofoxone (View Profile)

Posted on 1/16/2008 11:38:38 AM | | Votes: -2

Like I said, park assist is good for people that are Handicap just like night vision is good for those with night vision problems.

In fact, you can buy a jar opener if you have troble opening jars because of arthritis or other problems.

I just don't understand when they advertise a product like Viagra to people in their 20's?
— EL34 (View Profile)

Posted on 1/16/2008 11:46:41 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: -4

Well, there are some "parking challenged" people out there.
— _43LE (View Profile)

Posted on 1/16/2008 11:53:08 AM | | Votes: 1

Yes.
— EL34 (View Profile)

Posted on 1/16/2008 12:58:55 PM | | Votes: -4

Rosco I think someone fed your grandpaw some dead meat in the old folks home.You are an imsensitive pr*ck.
— autopro (View Profile)

Posted on 1/16/2008 4:24:13 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 5

Parking assist is the greatest feature ever invented for the art of driving. Who would bring such an advanced driving feature to the Automotive world? None other than Lexus.
— LexSucks (View Profile)

Posted on 1/16/2008 12:13:33 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -8

It's an aid for the handicap.

I don't need it, but it's there for those that need it and ToyLex didn't invent it.
— EL34 (View Profile)

Posted on 1/16/2008 12:58:41 PM | | Votes: 2

For the "Art of Driving"??

You dumbass, you dont DRIVE the car if it's "self parking"!!
— M35MT (View Profile)

Posted on 1/16/2008 1:21:32 PM | | Votes: 8

Based on your name...I'm hoping you were being sarcastic.
— M35MT (View Profile)

Posted on 1/16/2008 1:28:19 PM | | Votes: 5

I am. Hard to believe that some folks couldn't see that:-)
— LexSucks (View Profile)

Posted on 1/17/2008 10:13:32 AM | | Votes: 1

Sorry ratco I was drinking when I wrote that post,but you got the point.
— autopro (View Profile)

Posted on 1/19/2008 12:21:37 PM | | Votes: 1

Based on the A4 commercial, "the car for people who can park themselves", with this car, VW is making a statement that the Passat CC is "the car for people who CANT park themselves".

Hypocritical!
— M35MT (View Profile)

Posted on 1/16/2008 1:19:47 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 9

LOL, that was my first thought, and that's why Audi shouldn't have this feature. They also shouldn't have it because it's useless.

VW can fool around with over-engineering and making their cars more expensive, while Audi will quietly be moving further and further away from them in every way.
— S4cabriofoxone (View Profile)

Posted on 1/16/2008 1:52:55 PM | | Votes: 0

VW is also developing cars that drive itself too.
— monkeyrun (View Profile)

Posted on 1/16/2008 3:14:41 PM | | Votes: 0

exactly M35MT

a company moking other company's new technology and through an advirtisement makes fun of it and says it's useless and of very little value and then later doing the same.

Just like Lexus haters, VW looks stupid now. one of the most stupid thing i have seen.

why was they making fun in the first place.

LOL

JUGNU
— JUGNU (View Profile)

Posted on 1/17/2008 4:30:32 AM | | Votes: 1

It was AUDI. Not VW. They are different brands with different marketing/engineering/design departments. AUDI WILL NOT BE GETTING THIS FEATURE.

They may as well make fun of VW in a new ad.
— S4cabriofoxone (View Profile)

Posted on 1/17/2008 11:04:05 PM | | Votes: -1

inevitably this technology in few years become popular as an rubic's cube back in 80's.
— Homer008 (View Profile)

Posted on 1/16/2008 4:46:01 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3

Bitin' my ryhmes because they backstabbers...
DrFill
— DrFill2001 (View Profile)

Posted on 1/16/2008 7:21:55 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -1

god almightyyyy, learn how to f*cking drive people! i mean the technologys great, its pretty amazing that someone figured out how to work park assist, but its pretty embarassing to have to use a self-parking system to get into a spot, those people shouldnt have a license
— ravErdaveE92 (View Profile)

Posted on 1/16/2008 8:58:50 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2

A worth option on this SEDAN
— theoptimisticpessimist (View Profile)

Posted on 1/17/2008 1:49:35 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0

M35, S4,
Don't sound so suprised that the Germans are hypcrites.

MB: Diesels are the future, buy our diesels, now let's go develop a hybrid.
BMW: Diesels are the future, buy our diesels, now buy or newly developed a hybrid.
Audi: A hybrid V8 is pointless, but a V12 diesel is just what environmentalists were asking for.
Audi: Who needs self park...unless it's in one of our cars.
MB/Audi/BMW: Buy Lexus if you can't afford our cars, eventhough we all just happen to have models priced well below Lexus' base model.
BMW: Just because we're backtracking on Bangle's flamer design doesn't mean we were wrong.
BMW: Lexus using 8 gears is overdone, that's why our next 7-series is rumoured to have one too.

Use diesel eventhough hybrids only require half the imported oil that diesels do.

All the Japanese know how to do is copy our designs, eventhough our newest models all look like previous Japanese designs.
— huu76 (View Profile)

Posted on 1/17/2008 11:56:16 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1

8 gears are stupid and that a fact. I spoke to many engineers and they all say 7 gears is maximum on current cars. So unless BMW comes with something revolutionary, 7 gears will do.

In fact, 6 gears are fine.

— SevorbeupstryIsBack (View Profile)

Posted on 1/19/2008 9:29:32 AM | | Votes: 1

"Audi: A hybrid V8 is pointless, but a V12 diesel is just what environmentalists were asking for.
Audi: Who needs self park...unless it's in one of our cars."

V12 Diesel? It's an engineering achievement. Obviously, they also make diesel fours, sixes and eights, but you conveniently "forgot" that, right?

AUDI WILL NOT BE GETTING THE SELF-PARK FEATURE YOU IDIOT!

"MB: Diesels are the future, buy our diesels, now let's go develop a hybrid."

Hybrid-diesel. As far as I know, there will be no flat hybrid.

"BMW: Just because we're backtracking on Bangle's flamer design doesn't mean we were wrong."

Have you seen a BMW X6?

"BMW: Lexus using 8 gears is overdone, that's why our next 7-series is rumoured to have one too."

When did BMW say this? It was the fanboys on this site, not the company itself.
— S4cabriofoxone (View Profile)

Posted on 1/20/2008 1:18:41 AM | | Votes: 0

System has been used in Japan on early Prius. This park system is good actually. As people get used to there cars, they know the type of parking space there system works successfully in and they press the button. They do other things like turn off the hvac and radio
— StickShiftCamry (View Profile)

Posted on 1/18/2008 1:27:34 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1

Who in the world would really want that junk on their car? Has anyone asked a more paramount question, what is the cost to repair a couple steering system like that? Look at the Traction Control on my Chrysler 300. The next time I would special order this car to NOT be equipped with traction control. What a huge mistake that was. Better yet, next time I would not consider the Chrysler 300 period. Traction Control equals an imitation like, and more still, a quite fatiguing ride in terms of ride quality. The transmission shifts wildly like a bucking bronco, and you simply can’t feel what the car wants to do. Sophisticated drivers will only find these gadgets to be nothing less than annoying.

These things are toys to show people the first few weeks after you buy the car, kind of like that singing, dancing fish people were buying a gags for people a few years back, now they only collect dust in a basement.

Give us things that make sense, things we can really use, like Navigaton Systems, On-Synch for cell phones, Diesel engines for higher reliability and better fuel efficiency, 7 or 8 speed transmissions, these are the things that matter on a car.
— mercuryguy (View Profile)

Posted on 1/18/2008 2:16:26 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1

hue76 very nicely written. I don't think anyone would have an answer for that.

and S4 again your bias is amazing.

"AUDI WILL NOT BE GETTING THIS FEATURE."

now how do u know? Seeing the history we can assume this to be offered in Audi too. and also maybe in Bentley too.

"They may as well make fun of VW in a new ad."

Who r u fooling exactly or r u a fool. Audi making fun of VW, their parent company. i think the later is right. U r a fool and stupid just like Audi's marketing team.

JUGNU
— JUGNU (View Profile)

Posted on 1/18/2008 6:32:31 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: -2

"now how do u know? Seeing the history we can assume this to be offered in Audi too. and also maybe in Bentley too."

How do YOU know? We don't know anything, but Audi knows that they ran the ad making fun of self-park, and they're not going to put it in their cars. They are about driving, not parking.

"Who r u fooling exactly or r u a fool. Audi making fun of VW, their parent company. i think the later is right. U r a fool and stupid just like Audi's marketing team."

What is the matter with you?
— S4cabriofoxone (View Profile)

Posted on 1/20/2008 1:19:43 AM | | Votes: 0

The Passat was always a failure and this will keep the legacy from its looks, and as far as the park assist, this is old news now. When Toyota put the feature in the Prius it just didn't make lots of fuzz about it since it was in a basic car, but it became a fuzz when it put the same feature in its top of the line lexury car, LS460. Basically who cares about what a Pruis can do or not do other than saving gas. But VW shouldn't be bragging about the self park cause its old news.
— Designer1 (View Profile)

Posted on 1/19/2008 2:48:49 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: -1

"The Passat was always a failure"

Are you joking? It has always been one of the most popular family sedans in Europe, and in some years, THE most popular.

"When Toyota put the feature in the Prius it just didn't make lots of fuzz about it since it was in a basic car"

Wrong... it was never offered in the US, so why would they market something that was only produced for the Japanese version? They marketed it in Japan, not here.

"Basically who cares about what a Pruis can do or not do other than saving gas."

Great logic there.

"But VW shouldn't be bragging about the self park cause its old news."

If people are interested in it, why shouldn't they talk about it? Any publicity is good publicity. I don't like the self-park feature, because it's useless, but it's hard for you to deny that it's a smart marketing move.
— S4cabriofoxone (View Profile)

Posted on 1/20/2008 1:21:53 AM | | Votes: 0

I drove in a passat yesterday,its a noisy,rattling,cheap interior quality,POS.Other than that it drove and handled well.
— autopro (View Profile)

Posted on 1/19/2008 12:26:50 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0

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