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One question: Why is VW's R&D spending so high? It's BILLIONS more than other car manufacturers.
- chebum 13y agoThey build cars in many segments. Tesla build one model, while VW has 27 models (from their german website) + commercial vehicles. Also, they own several brands like Audi, Bentley and some others. Most of them has a wide model range.
- james4k 13y agoYeah, take a look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group#Subsidiaries_and_marques https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group#Subsidiaries_... Bugatti and Lamborghini are fun to note, though probably insignificant against VW's entire R&D budget.
- cweiss 13y agoI noticed that as well - One wonders what % of that expenditure is on improving R&D processes to lower costs, assuming that most of that cost is on non-renewable hardware modeling (hurling one-off test cars at brick walls and such). Also, is racing considered part of the R&D budget?