The UK’s controversial rejection of the European Union has claimed its first automotive victim, but it’s almost certainly not the car anybody thought about. It is not a car from British mainstays like Jaguar, Land Rover, Mini, Lotus, Bentley or Rolls-Royce. In fact, far from being a British car, the victim is just about the most German car imaginable, Forbes reported. It is a Volkswagen and it is a convertible. Volkswagen’s brand chief, Herbert Diess, last week admitted the confusion and high probability of cross-border tariffs played a key role in the termination of a new convertible. Though he would not reveal which convertible, sources suggest it would either have been the Mark 8 Golf Cabriolet or the next Beetle Cabriolet, rather than a stand-alone Cabrio, like the unloved and abandoned Eos. “We are concerned about the UK,” Diess admitted. “We wanted to do a convertible now, but with the relatively weak UK market and the uncertainty about what will happen, we had to think against it.
