Volkswagen has set out a brand new technique to concentrate on extra quantity merchandise and enhance its return on gross sales, which can consequence in the long run of manufacturing for the Arteon.

The Fastback and Sportback mannequin succeeded the VW CC, providing the next stage of specification and refinement than the Passat with which it shared a platform.

Volkswagen intends to realize a 6.5% return on gross sales by 2026, below a efficiency programme referred to as “Speed up Ahead | Highway to six.5”.

Thomas Schäfer, VW chief government, mentioned: “This system is the primary precedence for all the Board of Administration.

“We should construct new energy for the Volkswagen model and place it robustly for future progress, which is why we are actually getting an unlimited concerted effort off the bottom.

“We have to obtain a sustainable return on gross sales of 6.5% within the Volkswagen model.

“Attaining this in 2026 may be very bold, however possible if we pool our efforts. It will allow us to safeguard jobs, finance our future from our personal assets and proceed to put money into new automobiles and applied sciences, within the modernization of our crops and in workers coaching.”

Among the many modifications shall be extra emphasis on cross-collaboaration between VW Group manufacturers.

Volkswagen Passenger Automobiles, Volkswagen Industrial Automobiles, Seat/Cupra and Skoda already work intently collectively.Future manufacturing inside the quantity model group shall be geared much more systematically to multi-brand crops and car platforms.

Volkswagen intends to focus extra on quantity fashions, which means lower-volume fashions just like the Arteon shall be discontinued. Schäfer added: “We’ll concentrate on a small variety of – although real – Volkswagen core fashions. It will cut back complexity and ship larger earnings.”

The model has not confirmed when the Arteon shall be faraway from sale. VW is presently gearing up for the launch of the ID7, an upmarket electrical saloon that may occupy the identical section because the Arteon.

Volvo introduced, final week, that it was ending gross sales of the S90 saloon as a part of a wider technique to concentrate on electrical automobile manufacturing.