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Have you ever wondered how automotive brands and groups can afford to produce so many different types of vehicles and still make profits these days? The answer is platform and component sharing, which drastically reduce development and production costs, as the same architecture can be clothed and modified to suit a variety of body styles and needs. It also allows for cars to be made on the same lines. Read more »
- Toyota Wants To Follow In Vw Group's Footsteps And Build Its Own Mqb Modular Platform
Nowadays, the automotive industry is driven mainly by profits and the pursuit of higher sales figures. The character a car and its individuality are placed on the side, in an effort to have more of them to sell and cover as many niches as possible. ...
- Vw May Start Selling Mqb Platform To Other Carmakers After 2015
When you spend four years more than €60 billion (US$80 billion) in developing a groundbreaking new platform, then you better make sure that your investment will pay off for itself big time. This is what the VW Group has done for its brand-new MQB...
- Vw Group Initializes New Parts-sharing Strategy Across All Brands To Save Us$6.5 Billion A Year
Parts and platform sharing has been a common practice in big automotive groups. Volkswagen, which has been pioneering this method among its brands since the early ‘90s, has mastered the art. Still, there is always room for improvement... The VW...
- Opel And Chevrolet Too Close For Comfort? Gm Thinks So
Sibling rivalry: every family faces it, at one point or another. And what are automotive groups such as General Motors if not one, big (and bailout-happy) family? Platform and parts sharing is the name of the game in order to reduce costs and maximize...
- Mercedes-benz Ends Talks With Fiat Group
According to a report from German car magazine Auto Motor Und Sport, Mercedes-Benz has ended talks with Fiat about a possible partnership between the two groups in concern of platform sharing due to the fact that MB didn’t find any cost advantages....
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BMW to Limit Platform Architectures to Just Two, Mercedes to Four
Have you ever wondered how automotive brands and groups can afford to produce so many different types of vehicles and still make profits these days? The answer is platform and component sharing, which drastically reduce development and production costs, as the same architecture can be clothed and modified to suit a variety of body styles and needs. It also allows for cars to be made on the same lines. Read more »
- Toyota Wants To Follow In Vw Group's Footsteps And Build Its Own Mqb Modular Platform
Nowadays, the automotive industry is driven mainly by profits and the pursuit of higher sales figures. The character a car and its individuality are placed on the side, in an effort to have more of them to sell and cover as many niches as possible. ...
- Vw May Start Selling Mqb Platform To Other Carmakers After 2015
When you spend four years more than €60 billion (US$80 billion) in developing a groundbreaking new platform, then you better make sure that your investment will pay off for itself big time. This is what the VW Group has done for its brand-new MQB...
- Vw Group Initializes New Parts-sharing Strategy Across All Brands To Save Us$6.5 Billion A Year
Parts and platform sharing has been a common practice in big automotive groups. Volkswagen, which has been pioneering this method among its brands since the early ‘90s, has mastered the art. Still, there is always room for improvement... The VW...
- Opel And Chevrolet Too Close For Comfort? Gm Thinks So
Sibling rivalry: every family faces it, at one point or another. And what are automotive groups such as General Motors if not one, big (and bailout-happy) family? Platform and parts sharing is the name of the game in order to reduce costs and maximize...
- Mercedes-benz Ends Talks With Fiat Group
According to a report from German car magazine Auto Motor Und Sport, Mercedes-Benz has ended talks with Fiat about a possible partnership between the two groups in concern of platform sharing due to the fact that MB didn’t find any cost advantages....