Golf R hits the USA

[sabloke]

America is a very hard market to crack. I know there's a strong VW scene, however if John & Mary Lou Citizen don't start buying vanilla Golfs in seriously large numbers it will remain a fairly small crowd... Think about it, over here the Golf is competing in the $30k range with Commodores and Falcons. I'm talking about the regular punter that buys cars by the kilo with little or no regard for quality and driving prowess. In US is even worst, the crap 2 tonne sedans and 3 tonne trucks are even cheaper than here.

[dave_r]

They don't have to crack anything. Piss poor sales in the USA would still blow AU sales out of the water so of course they're going to push more models over there. The guys on Vortex have been hanging for ages and like a lot of us, we'll pay extra for what they have to have. They'll sell just fine!

Might mean we get some cheaper mod options opening up too

[sabloke]

Are they getting the Mk VI R? In other words a yank orderes his R in 2012, to be delivered some time in 2013, with MK VII only months away from being unleashed in Europe? That is hardly fair...

VW's sales in US in the last few years:


"As can be seen from the chart, Volkswagen has a World-Wide market share of almost 10 percent. However, Volkswagen has a very small market share in North America. This is a concern for the company since the United States is one of the world's largest markets and Volkswagen is fully aware of this. The company is taking on this issue with a few different approaches including providing more affordable and practical cars and introducing technological innovations which would increase the fuel efficiency of its vehicles along with making them more environmentally friendly.

As seen from the figure below, Volkswagen under "other" is fully shadowed by bigger giants such as Toyota or GM."

[AdamD]

As seen from the figure below, Volkswagen under "other" is fully shadowed by bigger giants such as Toyota or GM."

There's no question that VW doesn't dominate the US market. But what does that have to do with their decision to sell the R in the USA?

Let's please keep on-topic and leave the US market generalisations to the General Discussion forum.

[stephen8512]

in that video, the DSG shifter is different? Is this going to be standard for all golf R's from now on?

I still have the old R32 looking one...

Not that im complaining as I think aesthetically it looks better but if theres already been an "upgrade" of sorts on newly built R's from now on, what other updates are there?

sorry for being slightly off topic, but yeah...

[orkers]

That is the R MY11.5 DSG gear shifter. That and the ability to mute the optical parking sensor beeping is about the only MY11.5 change to the R as far as I know. Oh, and maybe the coffee break function (car telling you to take abreak after two hours driving).

[Greg Roles]

They don't have to crack anything. Piss poor sales in the USA would still blow AU sales out of the water so of course they're going to push more models over there. The guys on Vortex have been hanging for ages and like a lot of us, we'll pay extra for what they have to have. They'll sell just fine!

Might mean we get some cheaper mod options opening up too

I know 42DD are hanging to get one....

[dave_r]

Are they getting the Mk VI R? In other words a yank orderes his R in 2012, to be delivered some time in 2013, with MK VII only months away from being unleashed in Europe? That is hardly fair...

So what? Happens all the time. Since when do people stop buying cars because a new one is coming in 12mths. Salespeople usually don't tell people that a new model is due in 6mths and a lot of people (aka non forum users) are oblivious.

I know 42DD are hanging to get one....

Well you already have the right car and colour on the website so def need some products for it