Skip to main content

APR and Linden Volkswagen Want to Tune Your VW Straight from the Dealership

As we all know, going two places to get something is 100% worse than going to just one. Think about your lunch. If you had to buy the bread and the meat at different stores, the chances of you making a sandwich would drop precipitously. But there’s a supermarket, and all of the sandwich fixings are in one place. Nowadays, when you want to tune your car, you have to go to a different places, do research, and talk to more strangers, all of which sounds terrible. But APR and Linden Volkswagen, in New Jersey, think they have a solution.

Next week, the two plan to start a new program called APR Plus that will allow buyers can get an ECU tune straight from the dealership. If it goes well, the program could find its way into dealerships all over the country. So far, it’s only available on 1.8-liter and 2.0-liter engines, and only in the Golf family, but APR says it wants to expand to more cars. Under the program, you can buy a new Golf Sportwagen 1.8 TSI that makes 225 hp and 260 lb-ft of torque, instead of the stock 170/199. Which means that straight from the dealership, you can get a base Golf that’s more powerful than a GTI. Just be careful you don’t meet a GTI from VW Linden, because it might have 260 hp and 300 lb-ft of torque.

2017_golf_sportwagen_6426

Best of all, though, you don’t even have to give up on a warranty. Instead of VW’s warranty, you get a new 5 year/60,000 mile limited powertrain warranty with APR Plus, that gets you roadside assistance and a rental car in certain circumstances. And claims can be processed at any VW dealership (not just Linden), provided they have an ASE certified tech.

The actual cost of the APR Plus is up to the dealership so prices will vary, but on the APR Plus site the company has worked out a “worst case scenario” price over five years. You also have the option of just paying up front for the tune, though. Unfortunately, APR Plus needs to be purchased when the car is sold, so if you live near Linden, you can’t just take your car there to have the tune applied.

This isn’t a deal with Volkswagen of America, so you won’t necessarily see this in your local dealership, but APR says it’s gotten a lot of interest from dealers across the country. For now, the company’s taking it slow, though, trying to see how things go. When APR Plus does expand, the company wants to go dealership by dealership.

The post APR and Linden Volkswagen Want to Tune Your VW Straight from the Dealership appeared first on VWVortex.



from VWVortex http://ift.tt/2itr4s2
via IFTTT
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Project SportWagen: Going Stage 2 with APR

    When we last left you, the humble little SportWagen was fresh from the development process with our friends at AWE Tuning, sporting a new downpipe, exhaust and intake, allowing things to breathe a bit easier.  The car sounded great, but there was no getting around the fact that our wagon was still quite, well, slow.   While we realize that nothing we do to the Golf SportWagen at this point will make it a race car, we still felt compelled to do something .  To put it bluntly, we had a fever, and the only cure was more power. Flash forward a few hours, and we found ourselves at Waterfest, staring down APR’s palatial spread and the numerous tuned vehicles surrounding it.  Earlier in the year, APR had hinted to us that their 1.8 TSI files would be quite impressive, and based on what they were able to do with the 2.0 TSI found in the new GTI and our time in their Golf R, we knew it’d be worth the wait.  So with this in mind, we lined our G...
Post a Comment
Read more

Project Golf SportWagen- Intro

I’ve never really been one for SUVs and crossovers.  The current offerings aren’t the body-on-frame, go-anywhere specialty tools I remember from my youth, and what they lack in capability, they also lack in on-road performance. The current crop isn’t terribly good at handling or being efficient, which in my opinion are major components of our ideal driving experience.  So when it comes to space or utility, I usually look for something of the wagon variety- and it seems that I’m not alone. We hit quite a few shows around the east coast each summer, and we see modified Jetta SportWagens at nearly every event. Even amongst common consumers, these cars are highly sought-after. They don’t depreciate much, making even early Mk 5 2.5 versions expensive in comparison to other Jettas or Golfs of the same vintage. This year, Volkswagen launched their latest SportWagen, which is now billed as a Golf.  In many ways, this latest SportWagen is the best yet and it has certai...
Post a Comment
Read more

Volkswagen Group Records Best Ever First-Half-of-Year Sales

With 5.5 million vehicles in customer hands after the first six months of 2018, the Volkswagen Group is seeing the best performance of its history. Group deliveries increased significantly in all core regions,” said Fred Kappler, head of sales for the Group. “Our core brands recorded strong growth in the first half year.” For the year-to-date, all of Volkswagen’s brands had sales bumps. MAN, SEAT, and Skoda led the sales charge with performances 24%, 17% and 11% better than the previous year. The big sellers, too, had strong sales periods, with Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Audi, and Volkswagen sales rising 3.5%, 4.5% and 6.3% respectively. That last figure is particularly good new for the board, since Volkswagen alone sold more than 3 million vehicles in the first half of 2018. As Kappler stated, the numbers are equally good when you break sales down by region. Brazil and Russia were the most improved markets (22% and 20%, respectively), while strong sales in Europe and China (u...
2 comments
Read more