New Volkswagen Gran Lavida Comes with a Hint of A3 Sportback

One of the less impressive-looking, but more important from a sales point of view, new presentations at Volkswagen's Auto China 2013 stand in Shanghai, is the Gran Lavida, a station wagon version of the latest (Jetta-based) Lavida compact sedan, itself revealed for the first time at last year's edition of the same show. Read more »

New China Market Volkswagen Lavida Draws its Inspiration from the Passat

Four years and some 700,000 sales after Volkswagen debuted the Lavida at the 2008 Beijing Auto Show in China, the German automaker is returning to this year's venue to present the successor to its widely popular family sedan.

Though you would be forgiven to mistake it for a Passat, the New Lavida is in fact a compact-size sedan that draws its styling inspiration from Volkswagen's larger saloon model.

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