Although the Passat CC is a great car, when you compare it to the real deal Mercedes-Benz CLS it is kind of like a Chinatown fake Cartier or Rolex. It is nice and will keep time just as well but at the end of the day it is just not the same.
But when you take into account a few more years a bunch more miles, are you still as willing to take it home over a much newer VW?
What say you, Spies?
Autocar reports:
You'll notice the similarities between the Mercedes CLS and VW Passat CC, but which is the better used car buy?
The Passat CC looks suspiciously like a 2008 tribute act, covering Merc’s 2004 smash hit. Back then, the CLS quickly gained status as something of a style icon. It may be a simplistic guess, but surely Volkswagen’s marketeers must have noticed the similarity.
If we had £25k to satisfy the need for a swift, refined and well engineered four-door coupe, the CC would be top of the pops – not least because the chart’s a bit empty of four door coupes...
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