VW bolsters value of Arteon and Touareg

VOLKSWAGEN Australia will offer five years free servicing and a five-year Care Plan on MY22 Arteon and Touareg models until the end of this year.

The fully transferrable deal will provide what VW says is a “seamless ownership experience” with the cost of scheduled servicing covered for five years or up to 75,000km across all variants of the brand’s flagship passenger and SUV models.

The offer – which is available regardless of whether the vehicle is purchased outright or under finance – will save Touareg 210TDI customers $3600, Touareg 170TDI buyers $3000, and Arteon 206TSI and 140TSI purchasers $2700 and $2500 respectively.

“The servicing offer reduces the cost of ownership in our most stylish and luxurious full-size models,” said Volkswagen Passenger Vehicles brand director Michal Szaniecki.

“Our team has been working to provide solutions to the rising production costs and supply restrictions that are global and industry-wide challenges.

“We have successfully negotiated greater production for Touareg, created innovative limited-edition variants in a variety of model lines, and now reduced servicing charges and provided drive-away pricing offers as elements we can control locally.”

Mr Szaniecki reiterated how Volkswagen Passenger Vehicles has already sourced 1000 additional examples of the Touareg for Australia while also introducing limited editions including the Tiguan Allspace Adventure, Tiguan and Tiguan Allspace Monochrome, and T-Roc and Tiguan Grid Edition with “specialised features to improve stock availability”.

Further, Volkswagen Passenger Vehicles has several drive-away offers available on selected MY22 variants between now and the end of the year, as detailed below.

VFACTS figures show the Volkswagen Touareg ranks seventh within the SUV Large over $70K segment with 611 year-to-date sales.

The Touareg falls behind the BMW X5 (2148), Mercedes-Benz GLE SUV (2001), Lexus RX (1128), Land Rover Defender (1051), Volvo XC90 (937), Land Rover Range Rover Sport (800) and Audi Q7 (703).

Meanwhile, Volkswagen’s largest passenger car, the Arteon, places ninth within the Medium over $60K category with 322 year-to-date sales.

The category is led by the Tesla Model 3 with year-to-date sales of 7037 units ahead of the Mercedes-Benz C-Class (2402), BMW 3 Series (1832), Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class (1147), Polestar 2 (694), BMW 4 Series Gran Coupe (664), Lexus ES (579) and Audi A4 (344).

Volkswagen MY22 drive-away deals: