Schafer concluded: "I think because of the uniqueness of the shooting brake, although all pedalheads including myself would die to drive one, you have the difficulty that you are talking very very low numbers and very very high cost."
Sadly, the cost of doing business in one of the US's most heavily regulated industries is such that it spoils the business case for a breadth of exciting passenger cars, and the new plug-in-hybrid Arteon is steering clear of the US for much the same reason. Nor are we slated to get the high-performance 316-horsepower Arteon R.
Had the Arteon sold significantly better in the time it's been on the market, it might be a different story. But for now, at least, the Arteon sportback with a 268-horsepower turbo-four is all we get.
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