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Volkswagen Group to Buy Italdesign Giugiaro?
Volkswagen's master plan is all about numbers. Being the biggest, baddest automaker out there. That's why it isn't any surprise to hear that Volkswagen might be bringing Italdesign Giugiaro under its wing (nothing is official yet).
An acquisition would be another major part of VW's world takeover scheme, assisting with the goal selling 10 million vehicles in 2018. Its ten brands intend to release sixty new or updated models this year, so more designers and engineers are needed.
Now is far from the first time that VW and Giugiaro have worked together. The Italian design house has helped create a variety of cars for those aforementioned ten brands.
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Giorgetto Giugiaro Quits His Company, Audi Buys Remaining Stake
One of the most famous designers in the automotive industry, Giorgetto Giugiaro sold his remaining stake of the Italdesign Giugiaro SpA to Audi and resigned from the company’s board. Read more »...
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Italdesign Giugiaro Video Teases New Prototype For The Geneva Motor Show
Italdesign-Giugiaro will join several other Italian design houses at the Geneva Motor Show including Bertone and Pininfarina with its own special concept model. The famed Italian company, which last year ended up in the loving (?) arms of the almighty...
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Italdesign Guigiaro's Polo-sized Vw Tex Coupe And Go! Mpv Concepts
Italdesign Giugiaro celebrates its official Volkswagen property status with the the Tex and Go! concepts, both based on VW's upcoming modular transverse architecture. VW hopes use this architecture to cut down on development costs by having a vehicle...
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U Spy: Italdesign Giugiaro's Geneva-bound Volkswagen Concept Cars
Carscoop reader Torben tipped us off this morning about the addition of two Volkswagen concept cars penned by the Italdesign Giugiaro studio at the European patent office. Given the recent reports on the world premiere of two new design studies from...
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Volkswagen Group Buys 90.1% Of Italdesign Giugiaro
Ending days of rumors, the Volkswagen Group announced Tuesday it was buying a 90.1 per cent stake in Italian design firm and Italdesign Giugiaro S.p.A. as part of its global expansion plan, without, however, giving out any information on the financial...
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