The Volkswagen Eos is a 2-door coupé convertible from Volkswagen, built from 2006 to 2016, in the decade of stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids. Under the bonnet: 1.4 L I4. Robert Lešnik under the direction of Peter Schreyer drew it.
The story
The Volkswagen Eos is a compact car manufactured and marketed by Volkswagen from 2006 to 2016. It is a two-door convertible which seats four passengers. The Eos has a five-section hardtop retractable roof which itself featured an independently operable glass sunroof.
VW marketed the body configuration as a CSC (coupe-sunroof-convertible). Assembled at AutoEuropa in Portugal, the Eos succeeded the Golf Cabriolet. Eos production ended in May 2015, with a limited number of base trim models marketed as 2016 models in the United States. The model name derived from Eos, the Greek goddess of the dawn.
What is underneath
Power comes from 1.4 L I4; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It shifts through a 6-speed manual / 6-speed automatic (DSG). The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2578 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
Its family tree is legible: assembly was at Palmela (Autoeuropa), Portugal. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Nissan Qashqai, the Audi R8, the Hyundai i30 — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Volkswagen catalogue sit the Volkswagen Apollo and the Volkswagen Routan.
What it costs now
The money question first: $10,600–$23,200 is the typical asking range today, and running it — fuel and maintenance at its age — costs about $4,508–$6,484 a year. Insurance sits around $1,120–$1,840 a year. The figures are class-level estimates from the federal record, with the formula on the methodology page; the model-year pages carry complaints, recalls and repair costs year by year.