Volkswagen last week announced its plans to bounce back from the costly emissions scandal, cutting jobs and investing in “future-oriented” technology. But VW brand boss Herbert Diess also recently revealed another area of cost-cutting…
Diess told a German newspaper that the Wolfsburg brand planned to use a tweaked version of its MQB modular platform for the next two generations of its most popular cars.
The MQB platform, of course, underpins everything from the Golf to the Passat and Tiguan.
“In the past months, we have worked on the cost side of MQB and made significant progress,” Diess said, according to Boersen-Zeitung.
“The MQB has high technical substance, so we can use it for the next two vehicle generations without further major investments,” Diess added.
Of course, the platform is modular by definition, which means it can be fairly easily (and inexpensively) tweaked to underpin a variety of vehicles, provided that they share a basic layout (in this case, transverse, front-engine and front-wheel drive).
And that means, according to Diess, the upcoming Golf 8 and Golf 9 will share much of the underpinnings of the current-generation hatchback.
