The second-generation Volkswagen Amarok acquired off to a little bit of a sluggish begin, hindered by provide points, nevertheless it’s turning over a brand new leaf.
Volkswagen expects provide points out of the South African plant to be resolved in the course of the first quarter of 2024.
The corporate offered 1024 Amaroks in October, which it stated was the very best October consequence ever in Australia for the nameplate.
It expects to have logged 1300 deliveries in November, with one other 1200 this month, and expects month-to-month outcomes to be on this ballpark transferring ahead.
“I believe you’ll see these are the types of volumes that we’ll begin to see extra constantly month in month out, because the manufacturing out of South Africa begins to be much more constant and we’re very a lot wanting ahead to that subsequent 12 months,” stated Ryan Davies, director of Volkswagen Business Automobiles in Australia.
Together with these projected gross sales for November and December, Volkswagen will report over 6500 Amarok gross sales from Might onwards, when the present mannequin launched.
That’s decrease than the 8000 sales it projected at launch, however there’s been stronger demand for the priciest Amarok fashions.
The turbo-diesel V6, in traditional Amarok vogue, is accounting for the lion’s share of gross sales with a take price of 70 per cent.
The mid-range Fashion, which is accessible with each turbo-diesel four-cylinder and turbo-diesel V6 energy, is the preferred Amarok trim degree, accounting for 52 per cent of gross sales.
That places it forward of the Aventura (16 per cent), Life (15 per cent), and PanAmericana (11 per cent), with the bottom Core mentioning the rear (simply 7 per cent of complete gross sales).
Volkswagen says the Core, Life and Fashion can all be present in inventory, whereas the pricier PanAmericana and Aventura are supply-constrained. It says ready occasions fluctuate by supplier.
With 4872 gross sales to the top of October – which incorporates examples of the previous-generation mannequin and is up 43 per cent on the identical interval final 12 months – the Amarok remains to be behind the Nissan Navara (6009 gross sales, down 23.7 per cent) if exhibiting a stronger trajectory.
The cheaper Chinese language GWM Ute and LDV T60 have overtaken the Amarok, as has the bigger and dearer Ram 1500, nevertheless it outsells the SsangYong Musso.