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Exciting times ahead for customers with new app to monitor vehicle info.
Volkswagen Group South Africa (VWSA) has set the bar high for 2020. On the back of a myriad new vehicles locally over the next 10 months or so, VWSA plans to strengthen its position as SA’s new passenger car market leader with further innovations such as newly launched service and maintenance plans and a brand new app.
“We don’t expect to show any growth in 2020 taking the financial climate into consideration and have set ourselves the target of maintaining our 2019 market share,” says Martina Biene, head of the Volkswagen brand in South Africa.
“This year, 2020, will see the introduction of the Golf 8 which will feature level two autonomous driving systems known as partial autonomation. The global drive to autonomous driving is a fastpaced one and Tesla has already announced it will feature level three on it vehicles by 2021/22.
“We are also very excited with the arrival of our We Connect Go app this year. We understand that the high costs of data in South Africa will always be an issue, but we can’t arrest the world’s digitalisation on those grounds and simply have to keep up with the times.”
VW has no plans to offer an electric vehicle locally just yet, but has two electric initiatives. A fleet of e-Golfs and later ID.4s will be sampled locally to enable VWSA to gather as much information as it can on electric vehicles in South Africa.
The e-Golfs have already arrived and The Citizen is on the waiting list so expect further information later in the year.
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