VW, Shanghai VW to jointly launch NMS model

Shanghai, July 24 (Gasgoo.com) Volkswagen (VW) has announced its plan to build its US assembly plant and a new model (code named NMS) for the plant. Now the so-called NMS (New Midsize Sedan), of the same class with Passat B6, is reportedly to be developed jointly by VW and its Chinese joint venture Shanghai VW, according to Information Times newspaper.

The NMS is disclosed

Last July, Volkswagen and Shanghai VW announced to build an all-new sedan based on the latest generation of German B-Class platform for both North American and Chinese markets. As VW's US plant made clear recently, the new model is disclosed to be the NMS by Shanghai VW and German VW, the report said, citing American newspapers.

NMS, though at the same class with Passat B6, will be oriented to a market demographic below the B6. It will be priced lower than the current Magotan in the China market.

"The Passat remains the Passat. The Passat will be positioned above that mid-sized sedan (NMS). That mid-sized sedan is to rival Malibu, Accord fighter, Camry, said Volkswagen Group of America CEO Stefan Jacob.