2019 Volkswagen Arteon - The perfect alternative to an SUV

The Volkswagen Arteon offers nearly all the space and practicality of a crossover, but it does so with the style of a fastback sedan.

With so many crossovers and SUVs on the road, it’s great to see a stylish, attractive competitor like the 2019 Volkswagen Arteon. Call it a fastback, a sportback, a liftback, or even a hatchback; regardless, it’s hard not to find this sharp-looking vehicle incredibly charming.

With a 2.0-liter 4-cylinder engine producing 268 horsepower and 258 pound-feet of torque, the Arteon is fast enough to cruise comfortably on the highway. And despite it requiring premium fuel, it managed to ease some of Chris Wardlaw’s pain at the pump by beating its EPA fuel economy rating of 23 mpg by returning 23.9 mpg on his test loop.

Volkswagen’s 4Motion all-wheel-drive system is available. The 8-speed automatic transmission was largely good, although it occasionally behaved poorly when driving in Comfort mode. Switch to Sport, and you'll love how the Arteon eats up all the best corners on your favorite roads. Inside, driver and passengers will feel comfortable, thanks to a big, roomy cabin with supportive seats.

Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are both supported on the Arteon’s touchscreen infotainment system, and the car also includes a suite of advanced safety features, ranging from adaptive cruise control to lane-keeping assist.

Pricing for the 2019 Arteon starts at $35,845 for an SE trim and climbs to the SEL Premium R-Line 4Motion’s $46,210 MSRP.

Presenter: Chris Wardlaw
Cinematographer: Dan Sharp

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Sedans & Hatchbacks

[maximua]

A7??? It is (maybe) an FWD alternative to an AWD A5 sportback... maybe

[paulm]

Good looking car in search of a more powerful engine. Needs a six cylinder.

[kamigawa]

If only it offered FWD on the SEL premium and runs on regular, I’d buy it.

[davidhiggins]

CarGurus tweet out on 18th Nov 2019 that, "Meet the newest member of the Mustang family. The Mustang Mach-E packs 459 horsepower, 612 lb-ft of torque, and rear-wheel drive. Who says electric cars can't be cool?" Though Ford themselves say the 'rear wheel' version of the Mustang Mach-E to be released sometime in around Autumn 2020 has a standard range version giving 254 hp and 306 ft/lbs torque with extended range 281 hp and 306 ft/lbs torque. (Just the one torque figure given for both RW versions).

Ford are to do an all-wheel drive Mustang Mach-E version with standard range version with 254 hp and 417 ft/lbs torque with an extended range version of that giving 332 hp and 417 ft/lbs torque. (Just the one torque figure given for both those all-wheel drive versions). EDIT: we hear, "For the time being, Ford's electric vehicles still qualify for the $7, 500 federal tax credit, Ford executives said. They expect Mach-E buyers will be able to get that full tax credit for at least the first year it's available". WOW! so as low as $36, 395 then for the base model. That'll take sales away from tesla, great.

Motor1..com say that later in 2021 around spring time Ford intends to bring out the Mach-E GT Performance, the 'Mach-E GT Performance', note! the GT performance name. That is indeed supposed to produce those figures mentioned by CarGurus, but is 'only' supposed to be in All-Wheel Drive. A bit of a misleading original tweet then!

So all in all, far better not to restrict yourselves to a small amount of text on twitter and to balls it all up!. Not when you have an entire main website to do it on, (Which BTW to be fair does give a good selection of new & used cars for sale, a handy site for folks to check out, a well put together website).

And of cause CarGurus also have this YT page to get a message across. Twitter is a stunted medium, designed to dumb down the intellect and prose of both the poster and reader. It has succeed, now many can't read or write more than one line of text almost anywhere. Stunted their creative reasoning to the odd political based bark and general grunt.

As for the VW Arteon, looks too much like a VW Farteon, why buy one just for envious snidey cronies at work to take the Mick calling it a Farteon. Didn't VW learn their lesson with the VW Touareg which looks remarkably like the VW Toerag. Almost as if the Germans purposely want their English speaking customers to be relentlessly made fun of, paying all that money to be humiliated. Not my bag. WHO CARES what those words mean in Germany, big deal what they mean, it is what they can be construed for elsewhere by the twitter type goons that also matters.

[MrNemo]

For $39k or more I'd rather take a Kia Stinger GT

[TruthHasSpoken]

If they would raise it 4" or so it could compete against the Outback. It's really priced in no man's land. It's not a premium car and it's running into some nice SUV's.

[swanblake]

Kia Stinger over this all day. Proper rwd chasis and a nicer looking interior. The Stinger is fun to drive and faster.

[brentonwelty]

love the look, but for 46k i would rather buy a fully loaded model 3