These are spyshots of an unknown Volkswagen sedan being tested in a snowy environment. It looks pretty much like a Jetta with a slightly different shape, sharing much of the Jetta’s front and rear design cues. This is supposed to be one of two Volkswagen’s new low-cost cars for emerging markets like Brazil, India and South East Asia. Both cars are targetted at an entry price point of 7,000 Euros. To put things into perspective, the Proton Savvy in the UK is priced at £5,995, or 8,804 Euros – so when Volkswagen says low-cost, it really means low-cost!
This car might end up having some of it’s production here in Malaysia built in Proton’s plant if everything goes through well, however the latest story is that there has been no new deadline set for Proton-VW talks to be concluded.
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Too much cover, only found have Jetta shadow..
Is good new that this the low cost car purposely for South East Asia..
Hope it will come here soon
Or "I am waiting for the president/CEO/whatever to come and see me"?
Yes, to much cover. make it look like gen2.
i think, from the front side. There's influence of Golf GTI shape.
paul, it's unfair to judge.. until the real price given after the car on sale lah.
Where this car been build? China? india? i tot, everything from europe never come cheap.
and… not everyone wanna buy the cheap one.
hmm.. interesting. it must be so cold that they can cover up all the Air vents without the car being in danger of overheating?
but paul, it looks like a really big car. I would have thought if VW were to make a new low cost car for asia, it would be a "compact"??
it looks more like waja.
i wonder how much would it cost in M'sia hehe
I would think VW would know that Asian have a preference for Saloons, and if they can produce a mid/full size saloon for the price of a compact, all the better .
well here's hoping
7k euros huh? i bet if this low cost vw ever comes to malaysia, it will be priced below rm 60k, no? if it's within that range, will sure give myvis a stiff competition. after all, we can expect better quality since it's a vw.
this is a full sized sedan, with a boot.. myvi is a hatchback. most likely, it will compete with the vios, and city.
Thanks to INDIA, we will get this CHeaper Version VW soon. We BOLEHLAND PPL are the only Nation in the world WHO can afford to buy LOW CHEAP VERSION imported cars with HIGH PRICE. LOW CLASS Car for HIGH Class ppl only happened in BOLEH LAND. ONce again BOLEH!
Maybe in Future FULLY Imported CARs from India …. under RM60K! What do you think?
JUst kidding, the photos or Car that you saw above maybe is the REAL Condition. There are no MASKING at all. What you see is What you will get! CHEAP right, no VW logo, no Heap lamps, Rear lamps………All will be listed as OPTIONS!
too much damn sheets covering it. but i think i'll look good.
The car is freezing, hence the jacket :p I see squarish rear lamps, a dated design cue I think. I'd like to see more hehe.
hope it uses 1.4 tfsi engine
quite a size
hopefully its a Waja RM
dream on cos if proton is aint collabrating with vw, it aint gonna happen……
renault logan too (for peoples car)
this is a market segmet where the most cash earned by the maker,
benefit the consumer, cheap and spacious not bad looking as well,
not sure the, ever to compete with 'cheap' economical and reliable with jarring ride built in japanese.
Renault LONGGAN is really made for Cheap ppl, Please look carefully I saw the WIPERS are actually wrongly installed on LH side (Driver on Right side), it has the same side as LHD vehicles. Check it out! What a shame!
This? A budget car by VW? Its a proper sedan and yet cheaper than Savvy! It looks like another Jetta. When you say budget, I expect something like VW Polo/Fox.
low-cost car would become a mid-cost car after taxed by our silly G policies…
we still had P1 here… bolehland!