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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.
- Ford Cutting Its Global Platforms To 8, Will Launch 15 New Products This Year
Platform sharing is a surefire way to reduce costs, as well as complexity, across your entire range and many manufacturers are into it. You can count Ford, too, which will reduce its global car and truck platform to eight. Read more »...
- 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...
- Gm And Psa Peugeot-citroen Officially Form An Alliance, Fiat Still Wants In
Well, that didn’t take long, did it? Only a week after the first report that General Motors and PSA Peugeot-Citroen were discussing a possible alliance in order to cut their costs and improve their performance in Europe and other regions, the...
- Sources Say Gm Wants To Acquire 5 Percent Stake In Psa Peugeot-citroën As Alliance Talks Progress
A merger, a tie-up, an alliance or a collaboration, whatever you call it, at the end of the day, it all boils down to one thing: how well two automakers can work together in order to minimize costs and maximize profits. As previously reported, General...
- Spy Shots: 2014 Volkswagen Passat Test Mule Riding On The New Mqb Platform
Volkswagen is taking platform sharing to the next level with its brand-new Modular Transverse Matrix (MQB) vehicle architecture that is flexible enough to be used in some 60 different models ranging in size from the VW Polo and Seat Ibiza to the next...
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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.
Volkswagen is doing it and doing it well, so is Ford and now even Peugeot is taking steps to cut costs considerably with their new EMP2 platform. They do it by sharing as many bits as they can in and among their cars, to minimize development and manufacturing costs. Toyota is the next manufacturer to adopt this theme.
Read more »- Ford Cutting Its Global Platforms To 8, Will Launch 15 New Products This Year
Platform sharing is a surefire way to reduce costs, as well as complexity, across your entire range and many manufacturers are into it. You can count Ford, too, which will reduce its global car and truck platform to eight. Read more »...
- 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...
- Gm And Psa Peugeot-citroen Officially Form An Alliance, Fiat Still Wants In
Well, that didn’t take long, did it? Only a week after the first report that General Motors and PSA Peugeot-Citroen were discussing a possible alliance in order to cut their costs and improve their performance in Europe and other regions, the...
- Sources Say Gm Wants To Acquire 5 Percent Stake In Psa Peugeot-citroën As Alliance Talks Progress
A merger, a tie-up, an alliance or a collaboration, whatever you call it, at the end of the day, it all boils down to one thing: how well two automakers can work together in order to minimize costs and maximize profits. As previously reported, General...
- Spy Shots: 2014 Volkswagen Passat Test Mule Riding On The New Mqb Platform
Volkswagen is taking platform sharing to the next level with its brand-new Modular Transverse Matrix (MQB) vehicle architecture that is flexible enough to be used in some 60 different models ranging in size from the VW Polo and Seat Ibiza to the next...