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I'm not certain, but I think it isn't like VW developing platforms and everyone using it. It's more every company in the conglomerate taking turns or having spe

by Tomte 2y ago

I'm not certain, but I think it isn't like VW developing platforms and everyone using it. It's more every company in the conglomerate taking turns or having specializations and everyone else using that. So that a Golf platform is first developed by VW and then productized by VM and Skoda, but Skoda is already developing next year's platform which VW will use.

constantcrying 2y ago
>but Skoda is already developing next year's platform which VW will use. Do you have any evidence for Skoda developing a platform on their own? Audi and Porsche did do their own platform development, but that was never used by VW or Seat or Skoda and was for a completely different market segment.
- dagw 2y ago
  Do you have any evidence for Skoda developing a platform on their own? https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/skoda-handed-control-volkswagen-group-mqb-a0-platform https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/skoda-handed-con...
  - constantcrying 2y ago
    This platform has been developed by VW over a decade ago. It is not something which Skoda has developed on their own, it is Skoda getting to do legacy support for one small part of a large platform family.
    - dagw 2y ago
      "...the Czech manufacturer's development of the specialised MQB-A0-IN" Not developing as in starting from zero, but developing as in taking an existing platform and modifying/improving it for a new series of cars (in this case simplifying the platform to make it cheaper to produce, and targeting the very lowest end of the car market). Admittedly not a platform we're likely to see in 'the west', and sure it's nothing fancy, but I guess you have to start somewhere. edit: reading back through the original thread, I agree that you are correct that Skoda is not developing a ground up platform that will be the basis for several VAG cars.
      - constantcrying 2y ago
        Which is completely different from developing your own platform. And it definitely isn't something which VW uses to base their own cars on.

by Tomte 2y ago

constantcrying 2y ago

>but Skoda is already developing next year's platform which VW will use. Do you have any evidence for Skoda developing a platform on their own? Audi and Porsche did do their own platform development, but that was never used by VW or Seat or Skoda and was for a completely different market segment.

dagw 2y ago
Do you have any evidence for Skoda developing a platform on their own? https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/skoda-handed-control-volkswagen-group-mqb-a0-platform https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/skoda-handed-con...
- constantcrying 2y ago
  This platform has been developed by VW over a decade ago. It is not something which Skoda has developed on their own, it is Skoda getting to do legacy support for one small part of a large platform family.
  - dagw 2y ago
    "...the Czech manufacturer's development of the specialised MQB-A0-IN" Not developing as in starting from zero, but developing as in taking an existing platform and modifying/improving it for a new series of cars (in this case simplifying the platform to make it cheaper to produce, and targeting the very lowest end of the car market). Admittedly not a platform we're likely to see in 'the west', and sure it's nothing fancy, but I guess you have to start somewhere. edit: reading back through the original thread, I agree that you are correct that Skoda is not developing a ground up platform that will be the basis for several VAG cars.
    - constantcrying 2y ago
      Which is completely different from developing your own platform. And it definitely isn't something which VW uses to base their own cars on.