Volkswagen Passat car passing by in the road

There's no tougher market segment than midsize sedans, but Volkswagen has done well here with the Passat. Without much fanfare, the Passat has earned a good living over five previous-model generations, even becoming the perennial best-selling German midsize sedan in America. To put that into perspective, the Passat attracts about 75,000 of the 2.7 million buyers of cars purchased in the overall