One Platform = 80 Million Cars
Michael Fleury
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more than 40 million cars have been built across 70 different model lines sold by seven different brands. By the end of the 2020s, around another 40 million are expected to be built.
The MQB was designed to underpin transverse-engined vehicles as small as superminis like the VW Polo and as large as three-row SUVs like the VW Atlas. Replacing the PQ25, PQ35, and PQ46 architectures in one fell swoop, it appeared first on the seventh-generation VW Golf
“The idea of the MQB was genius,” says current VW boss Thomas Schäfer. “It created the whole platform thinking in the industry, and really pushed us around profitability across the board.”
it’s quite remarkable to think that the Audi A3 has anything in common with the VW Arteon, Skoda Skala or Ford Torneo (Yes, even Ford has a model built off MQB, as part of the recently initiated relationship between it and the VW Group.)