{"id":191062,"date":"2017-08-08T10:31:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T08:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=191062"},"modified":"2017-08-08T10:31:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T08:31:40","slug":"volkswagen-announces-new-limited-edition-beetle-in-sa-with-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/191062\/volkswagen-announces-new-limited-edition-beetle-in-sa-with-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen announces new limited edition Beetle in SA – with prices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Volkswagen has announced a new\u00a0limited edition Beetle R-Line model, with only 50 units being made available to participating Volkswagen dealerships across South Africa.<\/p>\n

The car will retail for\u00a0R419,500 and\u00a0comes standard with a 5 year\/90,000km Service Plan, 3 year\/120,000km warranty and a 12 year anti-corrosion warranty.<\/p>\n

It boasts\u00a0a four-cylinder turbocharged engine with an output rating of 110 kW and offers a maximum torque of 250Nm (between 1,500 and 3,500rpm).<\/p>\n

Fuel consumption on the new Beetle R-Line is 5.7litres\/100km.<\/p>\n

Unique to the new limited edition Beetle is a redesigned front bumper as well as a larger\u00a0central air inlet; a new black trim; a new optional paint finish; standard park distance control; colour-coordinated 18-inch Ravenna Adamantium silver alloy wheels; and smoked LED tail lights.<\/p>\n

Volkswagen has also\u00a0significantly changed the interior of the vehicle with new exclusive R-Line inspired seats as well as ambient illumination around the speakers, door panels, including a lighting strip under the door trim and the LEDs on the loudspeaker ring.<\/p>\n

Other standard features include a composition media radio system and eight loudspeakers, a 6.5-inch touchscreen, Bluetooth connectivity, USB interface as well as Apple’s App-Connect.<\/p>\n

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Read:\u00a0Tesla planning $1.5 billion bond offering to support Model 3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Volkswagen has announced that a new\u00a0limited edition Beetle R-Line model is heading to South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":191064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[26,6636],"class_list":["post-191062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-headline","tag-volkswagen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191062"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191084,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191062\/revisions\/191084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}