June 4: Wake up, VW!

If you are a VW dealer, you must love the Arteon. If you didn't why would you have all those attractive sedans sitting on your lot? Does anyone reading this blog even know what this car is? Have you seen one this week? Month? Since January 1st?

So why doesn't VW get with the program? Stop clogging up the dealers' inventory with a car nobody buys. This isn't a knock on the Arteon, since nobody else sells sedans (or dam few), but others do a better job of giving the dealers vehicles that will sell.

Case in point. You know how well suvs sell these days. There are many more suvs on the road than Donald Trump's stupid tweets and that's saying something. Consider this......Honda has four, Toyota has five, Hyundai has five, Chev has six and BMW, well those high rollers have seven. VW has three!

Might be time to look at what VW sells elsewhere.........

T-Roc

The T-Roc is a very stylish suv, that one sees quite a bit in Europe. Imagine this in a Canadian VW showroom? Yeah, but not for long, since this would be a hot seller. Why not add this to the North American line up? Opportunity lost? Heck, it even comes in a cabrio, but I'd say give that one a pass.

Or how about the new Nivus?

Already on this side of the Atlantic, but way down south in Brazil. They know something we don't? Not good enough for us? Small suvs sell really well up here, but if VW doesn't want us to have the Nivus, how about the T-Cross......

Cute and cute sells, doesn't it?

Ok, so VW has the right product for us, but they won't let us have it. They'd prefer to have those Arteons clogging up the dealers' lots. If VW likes the Arteon so much, how about taking a page out of the Audi Allroad book and give us the new Arteon Shooting Brake (station wagon)........

Risky? Daring? Great looking? Price it about the same as a top line Subaru Outback and just maybe there will be the same line ups at the dealerships. Will we ever get this? My opinion? Never! Not a chance!

I'm not a rocket scientist, neither, obviously, are those folks at Volkwagen. If they were, VW North America would have more than three suvs in the line and less of those dusty Arteons.

Time to write a letter.

Until next time and stay safe.......