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VW T-Roc rocking the SUV segment
Styling shakeup as Volkswagen joins the junior crossover battle
The Golf has been the cornerstone of Volkswagen’s worldwide sales juggernaut since the 1970s, but it is finally showing signs of slowing. Enter the T-Roc, which is due in SA in the second half of 2018. A compact crossover built to take the Golf’s interior size package and make it taller, the T-Roc is the third and last of VW’s SUV/crossover fleet. When so much of your business is built on one car, the smart play is to hedge your bets in case something bad happens to it (the Golf even lost European market supremacy for two months in 2017), which is what VW has finally done. Just over 250mm shorter than the Tiguan, the T-Roc sits on the same basic MQB chassis and electronic architecture, which is enough to make it clearly a class smaller and still a €20,000 starter in Germany, although local pricing has yet to be decided. "The T-Roc sets a new benchmark in the booming SUV segment," says VW’s board of management chairman, Herbert Diess. "With its functionality, dynamic handling and tec...
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