We hope VW goes to town on the new CC coupe-like sedan in terms of design. They have the potential to create one of their nicest-looking cars ever, but being VW they could just as well release a car that you struggle to tell apart from its predecessor.

Based on the sharp-looking Sport Coupe Concept GTE, the rendering you see below, courtesy of X-Tomi, is what the next CC should look like. It retains the basic shape of the design study, but with a more production-like bumper, as well as the headlights, rear lights and wheels; oh, and it has proper door handles too.

If it were up to us, those are the only modifications we’d do to it. However, it’s not up to us and there’s a chance we’ll be sorely disappointed.

Either way, the car will be bigger than before, in an effort to be a more premium VW-badged offering to sit in between the regular Passat and Phaeton; the latter is also going to be replaced by an all-new model, in spite of mediocre sales and unclear image.

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