After the shock caused by the Dieselgate scandal across the Atlantic, many Volkswagen dealers found themselves with new Touaregs that were impossible to resell. Today, some are finally trying to sell these large SUVs. And they are far from selling them off!
Without ever having really taken off, diesel exploded in full flight in the United States in 2015. It was in fact that year that the famous “Dieselgate” scandal was born across the Atlantic, after the discovery of software capable of to rig pollutant emissions on models of the Volkswagen group. Very quickly, the offending vehicles thus became unsaleable. But today, some dealers of the German brand seem to consider that the storm has passed. They hope to sell old-generation Touareg TDIs that have been cluttering up their stocks for almost six years at prices that are not friendly: very often between $60,000 and $70,000, when it was possible to acquire a completely new copy around $65,000 in 2016 when marketing was stopped.
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Prices difficult to fully justify
Our American colleagues fromEdmunds have noticed this surge of the Volkswagen diesel SUV in the “classifieds” section of their site and find some justifications for these prices a priori deterrents. Starting with the context of a shortage of new vehicles due to a lack of semiconductors, which has pushed many buyers to fall back on second-hand cars, contributing to drying up stocks of second-hand cars. With demand now exceeding supply, prices have reached record levels. The fact that the third generation of Touareg, sold with us since 2018, was never offered in this market can also contribute to arousing interest in this second version. But, as noted Edmunds, all this hardly explains such high amounts. Especially for a model whose image became somewhat sulphurous in the United States after Dieselgate.
Source : Edmunds
