2018MY Arteon Discussion Thread

[DreamensioN]

RS3 looks nice, but definitely small and way over the budget.

Ahh ok - I see what's happened. When you said "6 in the front" - I thought you meant a 6 cylinder engine in the front (as talked about earlier in this thread). I didn't realise you meant 6 like.. $6xxxx - as in an Arteon drive away for less than $70,000.

[Mr_206]

Ahh ok - I see what's happened. When you said "6 in the front" - I thought you meant a 6 cylinder engine in the front (as talked about earlier in this thread). I didn't realise you meant 6 like.. $6xxxx - as in an Arteon drive away for less than $70,000.

Ahhh i thought he meant driveaway under $70k (6 in front) too lol

[hadrami]

Ahhh i thought he meant driveaway under $70k (6 in front) too lol

I do mean driveaway $6xxxx ◎[▪‿▪]◎

[hadrami]

I think at this stage the Jag 20D in a demo XF with less than 5,000kms for around low 60s is leading the shortlist.

[DreamensioN]

Ha! I was just re-reading through the Arteon spec sheet, and I only just now noticed it says this on page 6.

Head-Up Display projects current speed, navigation directions and driver assist systems on a retractable glass display located in the drivers field of view.

The Head-Up Display is not fully visable with polarised sunglasses

I obviously didn't read that before going for my test drive.

[Ozsko]

I was telling my son about this and he said that it is a a problem with HUD's in general, I know the data logger on the Superkarts we raced had the same issue or rather you could see peculiar colours with sun glasses when you looked at the screen. Anyway, son tells me he hates HUD's after driving a lot of cars with them but that may just be him. Nissan tried them years ago and then gave the idea away so it will be interesting to see if it is a passing fad as rear wheel steering was when it was first introduced but with better control systems it has made a return.

[Mr_206]

I love our HUD in the X5... very useful and the new ones are even better and show mobile phone contacts, radio stations etc in full colour in the HUD. I miss it when i dont have it

[Rooboy]

I liked the HUD on the CX-5 Akera when I took one for a test drive - worked very well.

[hadrami]

I love our HUD in the X5... very useful and the new ones are even better and show mobile phone contacts, radio stations etc in full colour in the HUD. I miss it when i dont have it

We test drove the Arteon with the HUD and my wife didn't like it at all, she had to sit up higher to see it and then it was actually distracting her.

Test drove a 330i this morning with the HUD which is in the windscreen and as Mr_206 said it is the latest one with radio stations, contacts, speed obviously as well as navigation turns. Very nice indeed.

[DreamensioN]

If your keen on the Arteon I can hook you up with my guy... Mines awaiting to be picked up.... probably end of next week or week after when im ready to take delivery!

What colour did you get?

[Mr_206]

What colour did you get?

Pyrit Silver with all options. May pick it up this weekend or next week sometime.

Interesting to note that the first lot of cars does not have the safety feature which pulls over to the side of the road switched on. Will have to get a SW update later on, not sure why?

[DreamensioN]

Pyrit Silver with all options. May pick it up this weekend or next week sometime.

Interesting to note that the first lot of cars does not have the safety feature which pulls over to the side of the road switched on. Will have to get a SW update later on, not sure why?

Do you have any more info on this? I'm in the process of getting firm quotes for a Manganese Grey one (I finally decided to get the Arteon over the Superb) and they're trying to sell me one which is currently in stock, as oppose to one which is coming on a boat landing in January.

[nermal]

Interesting to note that the first lot of cars does not have the safety feature which pulls over to the side of the road switched on. Will have to get a SW update later on, not sure why?

Interesting... I wonder if it hasn't received approval for AU yet?

[Vexed]

Interesting... I wonder if it hasn't received approval for AU yet?

This could be something similar to the Superb traffic jam assist... There was recall for it to update the software and enable the feature.

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[dArK5HaD0w]

...what does the Arteon offer above the Superb Sportline? I can't see $20k of added value just in those things. Especially when the Superb includes...
- rear integrated sunshades
- Qi wireless charging
- chilled center console storage
- space to hold a tablet in the center console storage
- 5yr warranty

psst.....u forgot to mention it also comes with not one, but TWO umbrellas in the front doors!!!
plus an extra 60L of boot space with the seats up.



wat i do like about the Arteon is its predictive cruise control (smarter version of acc)- where it uses camera + gps to read the road ahead, so if a turn/bend is coming up, it will slow down, and then speed back to the preset speed.
brilliant i say!!