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when I first saw the Volkswagen CC at the 2008 Detroit Auto Show thought this is a great-looking midsize sedan but now they've updated it for the 2013 model year some things have changed but not a lot let's go inside and take a look at what's new see C stands for comfort coupe but you can see this car has four doors so not a coupe in the traditional sense but following along the idea that mercedes-benz set with the CLS of having a four-door coupe and they can get away with that because it has this really sleek roofline that follows back it starts at the trunk lid here then goes forward in this nice contoured design all the way to the front for 2013 Volkswagen updated the look of the front of the CC they went for a common design language with some of their other vehicles like for example we've seen this grille on the front of the Jetta we also get these LED parking lights around the headlights they have a nice tan a hook design and you see that on the Tiguan as well VW also added standard these bi-xenon headlights to the CC which give a nice bright white light thrown forward and I like this navigation system we've seen it before in other Volkswagens it's what books are in calls it's RNs 315 but it's surprising to see this navigation system in this fairly expensive car Volkswagen also uses it in their Jetta and their beetle and some of the other lower end vehicles but most look it has a more upscale navigation system called there are NS 5 10 that actually shows things like traffic along with this navigation system is they have this menu system as well and I really like this semicircular kind of menu thing it works really well it's easy to find your menu icons you can either just scroll this little wheel here and pick everything or you can punch these this touch screen and touch the little icons and make it react like that but one thing I don't like and too many auto makers do is Volkswagen puts the iPod port all the way over here in the glovebox pull this little orange tab down which pulls this whole array down pull the cord out plug my ipod in and close the whole glove box at backup when you're using route guidance one thing that's nice in this car is they've got a display in the instrument cluster and this display will show you pretty much everything it'll show you audio information your phone information and it'll also show your route guidance there's also a voice command in this car accessing the different functions it's as button right here it's got a little mic symbol on it but the problem and this kind of bugs being a car this expensive this only works with the phone system it won't let me access navigation it won't let me access the music service nothing else now Volkswagen fits the CC with its dual shift gearbox the DSG this is a dual clutch transmission it's actually a manual transmission or it's what they call an automated manual and who can choose sport mode or regular drive mode and leave it to shift automatically now under the hood we have Volkswagens psi 2-liter four-cylinder engine 2-liter sounds like kind of a small engine to power this mid-sized car but TSI means turbocharged stratified injection that's a technology beep Volkswagen is used for the last decade if meat really means it's a turbocharged direct-injection engine it's so good that every other automaker is ruling out similar engines BMW and Ford all have them now VW is has its engine for so long it's getting a little bit long in the tooth they could probably get more efficiency out of it certainly the other automakers are getting more power out of similarly constructed engines but this does give this car an average of about 25 miles per gallon which is not bad even better it gets the card at 60 miles per hour in 5.5 seconds which for a car like this it's impressive the CCS dual shift gearbox doesn't act like a normal automatic transmission I'm gonna put it in Drive it doesn't want to creep forward I actually have to give it a little gas to make it move also it has electric power steering and you can really feel that the way this steering wheel feels you hear a slight whirring sound which is the sound of the electric motor making the wheels move and giving you that that boost transmission has the sport mode which will keep it in lower gears and keep the RPMs up and give you a decent amount of power and will leave and let the rpms ride all the way up to redline let's put it in this manual mode by shifting the gate over one and there you can push forward to upshift pull back to downshift and because of the DSG it really grabs those gears pretty well you don't get the kind of lag you get with a torque converter transmission you also get better fuel efficiency - which is why bucks wagon went with the DSG in this car I do like the ride feel in the CC it's pretty comfortable although I don't know if a lot of people would really think it's much different than say a Ford Fusion or a Hyundai Sonata it feels pretty stable in the turns and it handles the bumps pretty well 2013 volkswagen CC starts at about $30,000 for what they called a sport trim everything you've seen here this is the lux trim and that goes for thirty-five thousand three hundred fifty five dollars you can even get this car with a v6 option in a higher trim level that comes close to forty thousand dollars for that kind of money I'd get a BMW 3-series or a mercedes-benz c-class or even spend five thousand dollars less and get a Hyundai Sonata or a Kia Optima Turbo you