Will Volkswagens Become Baby Porsches?
VW’s Bluesport judgment: Just make it the Porsche and call it a day
The Volkswagen Group had utterly the preference upon the hands: Considering the company owns both Porsche and Audi, that should have a respect of conceptualizing future Volkswagen-branded sports cars?
According to The Truth About Cars (which translated from German site Automobilwoche), Porsche is not usually the choice to engineer VW sports cars, though only may be in assign of conceptualizing a powertrain for all destiny VWs.
Autoblog explains it good,
The genuine coup, however, is in what Porsche plans to yield: the Modular Standard Platform which will place a engine without delay over a front axle as well as fit both longitudinal as well as cross engine arrangements. The MSB, as it’s called, will be put into make use of for a next Porsche Cayenne and Panamera as well as the future Bentley, as well as its flexibility could fast see it spread via the Volkswagen portfolio of brands. Group CEO Martin Winterkorn called it an value which would put VW “years ahead of a competition.”
So Porsche could rise a simple height for not only Volkswagen, though all of the VW Group’s brands. Is which unequivocally an value, as Winterkorn says?
It doesn’t have most clarity and reminds me of a trail GM went down, that culminated in watered down brands and overlapping products. Here’s my dual cents:
Volkswagen doesn’t need sports cars because VW Group already has the Audi as well as Porsche brands. I meant, a Bluesport judgment is severely cold, though with a Porsche height it’ll still be so costly it competence as good just be the Porsche. Or an Audi.The VW Phaeton is a single of a many lush cars available, though it shouldn’t wear the VW pinnedtoken. It should be a Audi A8.The VW CC should have been developed as an Audi.The universe really doesn’t need the Volkswagen Touareg, Audi Q7 as well as Porsche Cayenne. Just similar to a world didn’t need a Saturn Outlook, Buick Enclave as well as GMC Acadia.
There’s the reason the Saturn isn’t around anymore
