At the turn of the millennium, the Volkswagen Group (VWG) had big ambitions and was ready to push upmarket. It had some radical new models in mind, including an ultimate, daring hypercar, and needed to plot its course toward these giddy heights as strategically as possible. This may explain why the company brought a rather strange version of the Volkswagen Passat onto the market, which at the time seemed difficult to fathom.
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