ize premium sedan. The all-new car to be globally unveiled in India this year. The winning design will be applied on the upcoming Skoda offering, and will be showcased across the country. On February 27, Skoda Auto India announced that it will launch an all-new entry-level compact SUV based on the MQB-A0-IN platform and will debut in India in the first half of 2025. The SUV will use excise benefits for under 4-metre cars available in India for p...

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han EUR 7 million investment in Martorell, Spain. The TCE is being used to develop and test the performance of energy systems for electric and hybrid vehicles from CUPRA, SEAT and SEAT MÓ, as well as other Volkswagen Group brands. The TCE is current focusing on batteries for the MEB (electric) and MQB (hybrid) platforms, as well as different chargers used in all electrified vehicles. In total, it has a test capacity of 1.3 megawatts and can perf...

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this all-electric car for the European market. The production of the ID.Every1 is planned for mid-2027. On August 27, Volkswagen unveiled the second-generation T-Roc, featuring a refreshed design. The model is offering more space for up to five passengers. It is the third SUV built on the updated MQB evo platform. Production takes place at the Palmela plant in Portugal. In Europe, it will be offered only with hybrid turbo gasoline engines. At ...

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ll plant production increase by 20.9% Y-on-Y in 2023 On March 23, SEAT announced that it will reinforce its SUV offensive with the launch of a third model, which will become the flagship model of SEAT. The new SUV, which will be built at Volkswagen’s Wolfsburg plant on the MQB A2 platform in 5 and 7-seater versions, will launch in 2018. In the second half of 2017, SEAT will be launching the Arona, a compact crossover tha...

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f 2022. Audi Hungaria Motor Kft. has unveiled the third-generation Audi TT sports coupe and its high performance model, the TTS. The cars measure 4,180 mm in length, 1,832 mm in width, 1,353 mm in height and 2,505 mm in wheelbase.  The new TT is built based on VW’s new-generation platform called MQB. The car features strong and thin body structure. The 2.0 TFSI engine variant of the new TT weighs just 1,230 kg. This makes it around 50 kg light...

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he Volkswagen brand, the new Teramont family will be revealed at the motor show. In addition, the Volkswagen ID. family will introduce the ID.6 X and the ID.4 X, two battery electric SUVs developed based on the MEB platform. Skoda will showcase the Octavia A8, which is built on Volkswagen Group’s MQB EVO platform. Over 20 popular models including the Tiguan X, the Tharu, the T-Cross, the Phideon, and the Viloran of the Volkswagen brand as well ...

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launch with different drive system versions in the second half of this year. On June 10, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles revealed the all-new Multivan. It is the replacement for the current Volkswagen Caravelle, providing customers with up to seven seats. It will be based on the Volkswagen Group’s MQB platform. It is available with three powertrains, including for the first time in a Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles model, a plug-in hybrid (PHEV...

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that it is presenting its new Arteon model for the first time at the 2017 Geneva Motor Show. The five-seat Arteon, positioned above the Passat in the Volkswagen model range, is being produced at the Emden plant and will go on sale in June 2017 in Germany. Designed on the Modular Transverse Matrix (MQB) architecture, the Arteon is 191.4 inches long, 73.7 inches wide, 56.2 inches high, and a wheelbase of 111.9 inches. The new Arteon is launching w...

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meters, the width of 1,780 millimeters and the height of 1,425 millimeters, with the wheelbase measuring 2,636 millimeters. The luggage compartment offers 380 liters of space in the basic configuration. The capacity expands to 1,220 liters with the seats folded down. Based on VW’s next-generation MQB modular platform, the new A3 Sportback equipped with the 1.4 TFSI engine has a weight of 1,205 kilograms, 90 kilograms less compared with the prev...

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battery are available for the ID.6-series vehicles, which have a maximum NEDC cruising range of over 580km. Additionally, the ID.6-series models have an IQ.DRIVE system that includes such functions as a next-generation Travel Assist system. The all-new Talagon large SUV was developed based on the MQB Evo platform. The vehicle has a next-generation Innovision Cockpit that includes a suspended console screen. Several variations of powertrain are ...

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h generation new "Golf" on September 4. After shown to the public at the Paris Motor Show, the new model will be launched in Europe in November, in other markets in early 2013 and in the U.S. in early 2014. The new "Golf" that was announced in Berlin is a 5-door hatchback adopting a new-generation "MQB" modular platform, light-weight materials for the engine and components, as well as aluminum material for suspensions, resulting in reduction of w...

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na plant has a production capacity of 1,400 cars per day and employs 4,600 people. On July 29, Volkswagen announced that with the new compact crossover Taigo. It has crossover body style. This sees Volkswagen expand the portfolio of the compact Polo (hatchback) and T-Cross (SUV) models built on the MQB platform with a third chassis variant. Every Taigo comes with assistance systems such as the surroundings monitoring system “Front Assist”, in...

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n at the Pacheco plant will be halted from March 25, and operations are scheduled to restart on April 6. On March 17 at Volkswagen’s Annual Media Conference, Dr. Herbert Diess noted, among many other things, direction that the company is taking in South America, with emotional models based on the MQB platform, such as the Nivus, launching in 2020 and 2021. The Amarok pickup, now built at the General Pacheco plant in Argentina, will share next-g...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/11/27

wagen Group’s Roadmap E and SUV offensive kick into high gear in 2018. With new factories in Qingdao, Tianjin, and Foshan, together with the already opened Audi Q plant in Changchun, the company is well positioned to do the next steps of electrifying China. The introduction of the new Bora on the MQB platform at the Qingdao plant, opening on May 28, gives FAW-Volkswagen future flexibility to manufacture cars with combustion engines and pure bat...

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$22,995 Tiguan SUV, smaller than the $43,000-plus Touareg, but technically simpler than those vehicles and more affordable. VW plans to announce a new seven-seat SUV at the Detroit Auto Show. The model will be positioned below the Touareg as a lower-priced, more spacious offering. It will share the MQB platform with the Polo and other models. It will be manufactured at VW's Tennessee plant in the US. VW will hire an additional 800 workforce at th...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/11/14

. Twelve of these vehicles will be allocated to selected Volkswagen employees during the time period to make a research on the usage status. Volkswagen intends to bring the production version of the battery-electric E-Golf to market in the US in 2014, which will be based on the A7 Golf built on the MQB platform....

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Audi Q3 and Audi Q3 Sportback compact SUVs. On January 24, Volkswagen announced that it intends to resume production at the Taubaté plant in Brazil on February 3 with just one shift. The plant has been idled since December 23 due to changes being made on the production line for a new model on the MQB platform. Approximately 2,000 people will begin lay-offs starting in February. The plant is not expected to reinstate the second shift in 2022 due...

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han the current model. The new model's luggage space is also 123 liters larger. The new Touran L is built at the Changsha Plant. It will go on sale in China in 2016. On March 18, 2016, SAIC Volkswagen launched the Touran L, a new version of the Touran MPV. The new Touran L is based on Volkswagen's MQB platform and is 132 mm longer and 35 mm wider than the previous model. In addition, the new Touran L's wheelbase is 113 mm longer. All grades come...

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actory, and auto-supporting equipment manufacturing factories in this area. Announced on June 30, Skoda has begun sales of the locally assembled Kushaq in Vietnam. Built from CKD kits imported from India, the SUV benefits from synergies with Skoda’s Indian operations. The Kushaq features a robust MQB chassis with high-strength steel, a 115-PS 1.0L TSI turbo engine (178 Nm torque), 6-speed automatic transmission, and class-leading driver-assis...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/10/29

and speed up its mechatronics platform competencies, the Group will invest around EUR 800 million into a new R&D facility in Wolfsburg, where the core of the SSP (Scalable Systems Platform) and its modules will be designed. The SSP will significantly reduce complexity over time. As the successor of MQB, MSB, MLB, as well as MEB and PPE, it will extend the consolidation from three ICE-platforms to two BEV-platforms, to finally one unified architec...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/10/27