the corporate machine rolls on
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the corporate machine rolls on
I bet it will share the vw tiguan platform.
It will reportedly share the Audi Q5 platform.
Did anybody at VAG talk to British Leyland or General Motors about the perils of badge-engineering? The customers in the emerging economies of Russia, India, and China who Piech and Company seem to be interested in targeting are only going to buy "prestige" brands once or twice before they realize that an Audi SUV is really no different from a Hyundai SUV. A Riley Elf wasn't a Riley; a Cadillac Cimarron wasn't the Standard of the World. The air-cooled 911 stayed in production for over 35 years because it was unique, hand-made, and the genesis of 16 horizontally-opposed Le Mans victories (14 of them by flat-sixes).
And since when does Porsche name cars after ethnic/cultural groups? I thought that was VAG's schtick... oh yeah, these days so is Porsche...