2018MY Arteon Discussion Thread

[Mr_206]

What colour did you get?

Pyrit Silver with all options. May pick it up this weekend or next week sometime.

Interesting to note that the first lot of cars does not have the safety feature which pulls over to the side of the road switched on. Will have to get a SW update later on, not sure why?

[DreamensioN]

Pyrit Silver with all options. May pick it up this weekend or next week sometime.

Interesting to note that the first lot of cars does not have the safety feature which pulls over to the side of the road switched on. Will have to get a SW update later on, not sure why?

Do you have any more info on this? I'm in the process of getting firm quotes for a Manganese Grey one (I finally decided to get the Arteon over the Superb) and they're trying to sell me one which is currently in stock, as oppose to one which is coming on a boat landing in January.

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Interesting to note that the first lot of cars does not have the safety feature which pulls over to the side of the road switched on. Will have to get a SW update later on, not sure why?

Interesting... I wonder if it hasn't received approval for AU yet?

[Vexed]

Interesting... I wonder if it hasn't received approval for AU yet?

This could be something similar to the Superb traffic jam assist... There was recall for it to update the software and enable the feature.

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[dArK5HaD0w]

...what does the Arteon offer above the Superb Sportline? I can't see $20k of added value just in those things. Especially when the Superb includes...
- rear integrated sunshades
- Qi wireless charging
- chilled center console storage
- space to hold a tablet in the center console storage
- 5yr warranty

psst.....u forgot to mention it also comes with not one, but TWO umbrellas in the front doors!!!
plus an extra 60L of boot space with the seats up.



wat i do like about the Arteon is its predictive cruise control (smarter version of acc)- where it uses camera + gps to read the road ahead, so if a turn/bend is coming up, it will slow down, and then speed back to the preset speed.
brilliant i say!!

[dArK5HaD0w]

Interesting... I wonder if it hasn't received approval for AU yet?

i think its because of legislation in relation to the use of "autonomous vehicles" in australia.
for a car to safely pull across, potentially a multi-lane freeway or highway, it will need to change lanes by itself, safely, without cutting anyone else off the road.

so the option left is to put on the hazards and slowly stop in its own lane.
.....not that this is any safer!!

[Mr_206]

Great work!!! I pick mine up on Wednesday! Pyrit Silver with all the options! Looking fwd to it!!

[DreamensioN]

Great work!!! I pick mine up on Wednesday! Pyrit Silver with all the options! Looking fwd to it!!

Post some pics of yours when you get it - and if you can...especially up close of the paint. I was torn between the Silver and the Manganese Grey.

[DreamensioN]

Here are some photos of a Manganese Grey one in sunlight. Hopefully this helps someone get an idea of the "metallic" look you get. I found it really hard to get close up photos on google image search when I was trying to decide between colours. The Tumeric Yellow looks great in the photos and online review videos, but when I saw Tumeric Yellow on a Golf in real life, it looks a lot more "mustard" (aka baby poo) than the photo-shopped promo pics you see.

I also had a hard time finding good pics of the Pyrite Silver. In the end I whittled my way down to the manganese grey.

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Oh yeah!! I knew it was a good idea to hold off

Hot VW Arteon R to get 300kW twin-turbo V6 - motoring.com.au

EDIT: seems the devil is in the detail...

Despite the news that a hot Arteon R is on the way, the fast Volkswagen sedan might not reach Australia when global sales commence around 2019.