A Volkswagen T-Roc Cabrio will hit the market in less than two years

The most important news of yesterday was the international presentation of the new Volkswagen T-Cross, an urban SUV on the basis of the Polo that is the first cousin of the Seat Arona. However, today a rumor tells us that his older brother, the T-Roc, will have a convertible version for 2020 . It would be a Volkswagen T-Roc Cabrio .

The T-Roc is the SUV-C model, or compact SUV, of the German brand that arrived to the market in this year 2018; standing by size between the aforementioned T-Cross and the well-known Tiguan. A Volkswagen T-Roc Cabrio would bring an emotional point to the SUV range , because we remember that the crossover of the company does not have either convertible variants, nor sports.

This has been said by the British media Autocar , who he claims to have received this confirmation from the Volkswagen operations director . Our colleagues declare that this new convertible SUV will be released next year, while its market launch will take place during the first measures of 2020 .

According to the calculations, Volkswagen aims to produce about 20,000 units per year of this course Volkswagen T-Roc Cabrio, a fact that seems quite high considering that we are talking about a passion model whose habitability in the rear seats and trunk capacity they will be quite reduced. In any case, play with the trick of not having no direct rival .

Volkswagen's plans for vehicle types notably go through the SUV and crossover . Recently, the German company affirmed that its SUVs will suppose a high percentage, around 50%, of the sales in the year 2025 . " The T-Roc Cabrio is part of a new, more emotional strategy ", they say.

Herbert Diess, head of Volkswagen, declared Autocar em> que: Volkswagen is becoming an SUV brand. The T-Roc is already setting new standards in the compact SUV segment. With the convertible based on the T-Roc we will add a highly emotional model .

Source - Autocar

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