The diesel scandal from Volkswagen has changed the course of CO2 testing of cars, but this is not the only case of this company. Consider the TOP 5 events that Volkswagen celebrated in 2016.
The content of the article:
- New Tiguan
- Anniversary VW Polo
- Diesel engine
- Restyling Golf VIII
- New Atlas
At the end of each year, car manufacturers often tweak statistics and metrics in different directions. Most often this year, Volkswagen was remembered, both in positive and negative cases. Let's point out the TOP-5 situations in which Volkswagen was most noted.
New generation Volkswagen Tiguan
The new Volkswagen Tiguan SUV was shown a long time ago, but the start of sales began in April 2016. The novelty immediately gained a lot of fans, and in September the Volkswagen Tiguan has already won the status of the best-selling car in the SUV segment in Europe. As for the Russian market, the novelty should be expected at the beginning of 2017. It is worth noting that the production of this model was launched at the Volkswagen car plant in Kaluga. The base cost of the new Volkswagen Tiguan with a manual transmission will cost from 1,459,000 rubles.
350 thousand VW Polo cars
Volkswagen statistics repeatedly named the Polo model the best-selling car. As a result, in May 2016, the Russian market celebrated the 350 thousandth copy of the Volkswagen Polo, which rolled off the assembly line at the plant in Kaluga. To celebrate this celebration, it was decided to release a jubilee car in the Allstar series. As the statistics of the Russian automotive market show, the Volkswagen Polo has never left the list of TOP-25 best-selling cars in the Russian Federation.
Diesel scandal
Information about the Volkswagen scandal over diesel engines has repeatedly surfaced in the media. For over a year, Volkswagen has been talking about various options with diesel engines. In the fall of 2016, a US federal court ruled that Volkswagen must pay a hefty CO2-emitting fine for its diesel vehicles at a record-high cost of US $ 14.7 billion. For more than a year there have been court cases. Some experts say, although the company was forced to pay a fine and the procedure has already begun, the case has not yet been closed, and a second review is expected in the near future. Following the USA, representatives of different European countries intend to receive similar compensation for the same situation with diesel engines.
Updated car Volkswagen Golf VII
The Golf car has a long history from the first to the last model. There were several rumors in the media that Volkswagen was preparing to present an updated version of the Golf VIII, but there was no reliably confirmed information about this. It was expected that the novelty will receive a completely new design, but the exterior and interior updates were minor.
Thus, it turned out just an updated generation of the Volkswagen Golf VII, presented in November 2016 in the city of Wolfsburg. When the new product will appear on the territory of Russia is still unknown.
Brand new Volkswagen Atlas SUV
Since the beginning of 2016, there has been information that Volkswagen is preparing to present a completely new SUV, which will be larger and more aggressive than the already known Touareg. It was rumored that the new product would be called Teramont, but then the name was changed to Atlas. Everything turned out to be quite simple and clear. On the territory of China and neighboring countries, the novelty will be called Teramont, and in the USA - Atlas.
The start of production of the new Volkswagen Atlas SUV started in November 2016 at the plant in Chattanooga (USA). According to experts, the new SUV may appear in Russia by the end of 2017. Most likely it will be an American version of the equipment, but with the Chinese name Teramont.
