VW offer glimpse at new top saloon - the Arteon

We may have thought that the days of executive contenders from Volkswagen were long since gone — gone since the days of the ill-received and poor selling Phaeton.

But no, some three months ahead of its world premiere at the Geneva Motor Show, the Wolfsburg concern has provided us with the first look at what the company describes as the “fascinating contours” of its new top saloon, the Arteon.

The Arteon, we have been told this week is a totally new model which will sit above the Passat in the company’s model line-up which also, according to VW, “emphasises emotionality in the upper mid-class”, whatever that means.