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MessaggioInviato: ven ott 23, 2020 9:27 am 
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La nuova A4 arriverà a fine 2022 su pianale MLB e sarà l'ultima vettura ad utilizzare quella base.
Secondo Autobild la A5 sarà solo elettrica. Dobbiamo pure considerare che il numero di veicoli elettrici aumenterà a dismisura e per ridurre i costi dovranno per forza cancellare modelli con motore a combustione.

Ma si infatti come ultima non bev sarebbe stato inopportuno cambiare per risparmiare con pianale golf.
Sicuramente la gamma dovranno ridurla, ad esempio non capisco come mai a8 nuova ancora non solo bev, anche perchè vw rispetto ad altre case farà auto specifiche solo bev e non userà pianali che si adattano a mhev,phev e bev.

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MessaggioInviato: ven ott 23, 2020 9:38 am 
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La prossima A8 sarà solo elettrica, è sicuro, sarà la versione di serie del progetto Artemis guidato da Dusemann.
Tra 4 anni sapremo di problemi di software della nuova A8.


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MessaggioInviato: ven ott 23, 2020 9:41 am 
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La prossima A8 sarà solo elettrica, è sicuro, sarà la versione di serie del progetto Artemis guidato da Dusemann.
Tra 4 anni sapremo di problemi di software della nuova A8.

Dallo schema si vede di una nuova A8 nel 2024/25 non solo elettrica, poi se sarà solo BEV sicuramente è la scelta più logica.

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MessaggioInviato: dom ott 25, 2020 1:14 pm 
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VW-Chef Herbert Diess treibt den Umbau des Konzerns voran und nimmt sich nun die britische Nobeltochter Bentley vor. Um der Marke neue Impulse zu geben, soll sie ab 2021 der Ingolstädter Tochter Audi unterstellt werden. Voraussichtlich bis Mitte 2021 soll das umgesetzt werden, erfuhr die Automobilwoche aus Konzernkreisen.
Bisher lag die Verantwortung für Bentley im VW-Konzernvorstand bei Porsche-Chef Oliver Blume, der die Aufgabe aber "nur halbherzig" verfolgte, wie es in den Kreisen hieß. Jetzt soll es Audi-Chef Markus Duesmann richten. Duesmann entwickelt sich damit immer mehr zur Allzweckwaffe des Konzerns. Diess hat dem Ex-BMW-Manager, der seit April bei Audi ist, bereits die Konzernentwicklung und die neue Car-Software-Organisation unterstellt. Jetzt kommt Bentley hinzu.

Duesmann soll Potenzial bei Bentley heben

"Die Marke muss ihr Potenzial endlich auch heben", hatte Diess schon vor Wochen gefordert – und damit quasi den Auftrag für den künftigen Bentley-Sanierer Duesmann ausgegeben. Helfen soll eine engere Verzahnung mit Audi. So könnte etwa das in Ingolstadt gerade gestartete Artemis-Projekt auch den Bausatz für eine geländegängige Edellimousine der neuen Audi-Tochter liefern, hieß es.
Der Umbau bei Bentley ist Teil der von Diess angestoßenen Bereinigung des Markenportfolios. Um sich ganz auf den Wandel zur Elektromobilität konzentrieren zu können, will sich Diess von Nischenmarken trennen. Am weitesten fortgeschritten sind die Verkaufspläne bei Bugatti. Die Gespräche mit dem kroatischen Start-up Rimac stehen nach Informationen der Automobilwoche kurz vor dem Abschluss. Berichten zufolge hat VW nun auch bei Ducati mit der Käufersuche begonnen und bereitet Lamborghini auf einen Börsengang vor.

Secondo automobilwoche Diess a breve annuncerà lo spostamento di Bentley dal sottogruppo guidato da Porsche a quello guidato da Audi.
Bugatti e Ducati verranno cedute mentre Lamborghini verrebbe quotata in borsa.


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MessaggioInviato: lun ott 26, 2020 9:12 am 
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Bugatti sarebbe il classico marchio da berlinona esagerata o da "suvvone" estremo non capisco perchè proprio vw, nemmeno fosse fca, hanno tentennato per 10 anni sulla berlina o ora sul suv, secondo me anche Romano 30 anni fa avrebbe potuto fare il vero salto con la eb112.
Su bugatti se vogliono continuare su un unico modello sportivo 2 posti come adesso dovrebbero ridimensionarsi ulteriormente e fare come pagani, oppure meglio fare quasi solo one-off senza troppi upgrade su meccanica attuale o con "meccanica" di altri come Rimac.
Bentley è ovvio che sia sotto porsche/audi bene.

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MessaggioInviato: lun ott 26, 2020 11:09 am 
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Bugatti è sempre rimasto il progetto del cuore di Piech ma tutti i manager responsabili della gestione finanziaria tuonavano contro questa divisione.
Diess sta cercando di convincere i vari stakeholder che Vw non può essere più quella dei tempi di Piech.
Uno snellimento del portafoglio marchi sarebbe più che auspicabile.
Bentley non ha mai raggiunto le aspettative, riesce ad essere redditizia in maniera discontinua. Diess è deluso dalla gestione di Porsche quindi il marchio inglese dovrebbe passare sotto l’orbita di Audi.


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MessaggioInviato: gio ott 29, 2020 12:58 pm 
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Osterloh ha mostrato resistenza ai piani di Witter e Diess riguardo alla riorganizzazione dei marchi exotic del gruppo Vw (Bentley, Lamborghini, Ducati e Bugatti).
Le decisioni verranno prese solo nel 2021.


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MessaggioInviato: ven nov 06, 2020 6:38 am 
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Bentley aims to be end-to-end carbon neutral by 2030, with Crewe operations climate positive thereafter
Confirms move to full electrification – PHEV or BEV only by 2026
By 2030, switching entire model range to battery electric vehicles
Two new PHEV launches planned in 2021
Committed to reduce factory environmental impact by 75 per cent by 2025 against a 2010 baseline – including plastic neutral
Fully supports Volkswagen Group ambition of going beyond two degree target of the Paris Climate Agreement
Targeting truly diverse talent – 30 per cent of management population to be diverse, increase from less than 20 per cent today
Holistic Beyond100 programme transforms every aspect of the 100 year old company

Bentley Motors outlines Beyond100 strategy, targeting sustainable luxury mobility leadership.
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Bentley Motors has outlined plans to become a global leader in sustainable luxury mobility with further details of its Beyond100 strategy revealed today. With the promise to offer truly sustainable luxury, Bentley will reinvent every aspect of its business to become an end-to-end carbon neutral organisation as it embarks on its second century. The target is driven by a transformation programme across Bentley’s entire operations and products. This includes switching its model range to offer exclusively plug-in hybrid or battery electric vehicles by 2026, and full electric vehicles only by 2030.

The announcement highlights Bentley’s plans to provide extraordinary mobility for the next century, evolving from the world’s largest producer of 12-cylinder petrol engines to having no internal combustion engines within a decade, reinventing itself as a leader in sustainable luxury mobility.

The Beyond100 strategic plan is an extension of two decades of forward thinking, innovation and achievement. Acutely aware of the responsibility to consider its environmental, social and economic impact, Bentley has transformed its 80-year-old headquarters into the UK’s single carbon neutral luxury car factory. In parallel, the luxury marque has grown to operate in more markets than ever before, 68, while creating a long-term, consistent, sustainable business model, a truly solid basis to build for a second century.

Adrian Hallmark, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bentley Motors, said: “Since 1919, Bentley has defined luxury grand touring. Being at the forefront of progress is part of our DNA - the original Bentley boys were pioneers and leaders. Now, as we look Beyond100, we will continue to lead by reinventing the company and becoming the world’s benchmark luxury car business.

“Driving this change includes, and also goes beyond our products, delivering a paradigm shift throughout our business, with credibility, authenticity, and integrity. Within a decade, Bentley will transform from a 100 year old luxury car company to a new, sustainable, wholly ethical role model for luxury.”

End-to-End Carbon Neutral

Bentley’s aim to become an end-to-end carbon neutral luxury car brand by 2030 will be underpinned by a structured, business-wide sustainability programme. This includes the development of electrified models throughout the range, and further improvements on its operational environmental impact, that of its tier one supply chain and collaborating with its retailer network.

Bentley’s approach to redefining its business model will be built around its accelerated journey towards electrification. Having already committed that every model line will be offered with the option of a hybrid variant by 2023, with Bentley’s first pure electric model to be launched in 2025, Bentley is today announcing a move towards zero emission mobility.

Following the introduction of the first Bentley fully electric model in 2025 - Bentley’s first cradle to grave fully carbon neutral car - Bentley will exclusively offer plug-in hybrid and electric models only within its range in 2026. By 2030, this will change to battery electric vehicles only.

Bentley’s electrified future was previewed with the reveal of the all-electric EXP 100 GT concept car in its centenary year, which also featured a multitude of sustainable materials. These included 5,000-year-old copper-infused Riverwood, traditionally produced wool carpets and a leather-like textile upholstery made from a bi-product of wine-making. Bentley will continue to use only sustainably sourced materials throughout its current, and next generation of cars.

Last year, Bentley’s production facility in Crewe became the first luxury automotive factory in the UK to be certified carbon neutral by the Carbon Trust. This followed two decades of implementing innovative solutions, including a water recycling system in the paint shop, local tree planting, installation of a 10,000 solar panel carport, taking the total number of on-site solar panels to 30,000, and a switch to renewable-only electricity sources.

The Crewe facility will continue to improve its environmental operations. By the end of this year, all suppliers will have passed a sustainability audit, verifying their sustainability credentials. In the future, by the end of 2025, the company intends to reduce its factory environmental impact by focusing on energy consumption, CO2 emissions, waste water, use of solvents in the paint process and becoming plastic neutral. This will result in a climate positive factory by 2030, actively reducing levels of carbon in the atmosphere, while in parallel the business invests in renewable energy and forestation projects.

Financially Resilient and Recession-Proof

Achieving sustainable luxury mobility relies heavily on a sustainable business model, and Bentley’s aim is to become the world’s benchmark luxury car business, financially resilient and recession-proof. The challenging economic situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in Bentley undertaking its biggest change programme in a century.

This change programme was driving for consistent financial resilience through rapid productivity improvements across the business, and a fundamental restructure. Previously announcing a voluntary release and redundancy programme with the aim of a workforce reduction of 1,000 permanent colleagues, this figure was reduced to 800 colleagues, including around 200 contractor positions.

Furthermore, the success of this voluntary release programme has resulted in a much smaller number of those remaining at risk of compulsory redundancy, less than 10, although Bentley continues to investigate opportunities to avoid this outcome if possible.

The results from this comprehensive cost and investment structure has placed the business in a position to achieve a positive financial performance for the full year 2020, in spite of the extenuating external circumstances. This platform will create a sustainable, consistently profitable business model for the next 100 years.

Extraordinary People

Achieving sustainable value creation is in large part down to the growth and collaboration of Bentley’s extraordinary people. Designing and building Bentleys of the future will require a greater diversity of talent, achieved by retraining in some areas and by developing and attracting a wide-range of talent including digital innovators and creative thinkers.

Bentley will continue to work with local schools and colleges to develop local talent in South Cheshire, building even closer links with the Crewe Engineering & Design UTC, which Bentley is a founding partner of. This includes becoming the employer of choice in the automotive sector with a clear brand, vision, mission, values and purpose. Bentley is focused on attracting diverse candidates and is targeting a management population of 30 per cent by 2025 that is truly diverse, increasing today’s figure of less than 20 per cent.

The company is committed to handcrafting cars in Crewe for the next 100 years, whilst also preparing for a digital future, and has confirmed it will be investing in two new Research and Development buildings, a vehicle test centre and a dedicated launch quality centre. This expansion and greater focus on digitalisation reinforces Bentley as a values-led organisation, matching customer values of sustainability, innovation and collaboration, which is more important than ever in a digital world.

Redefining For The Next Century

Redefining digitalisation throughout the organisation extends to many of the brand’s valued customers. Bentley is building a network of connected services individual to the customer achieved through product visualisation, co-creation and a digital journey. This will deliver a truly 360 degree, curated customer experience.

As well as accelerating the product journey towards electrification, Beyond100 opens a new era for Bentley’s bespoke division, Mulliner, which now has a three-portfolio structure comprising Mulliner Classic, Mulliner Collections and Mulliner Coachbuilt. The recently revealed Bacalar signifies the start of this new age as the first member of the Mulliner Coachbuilt family and incorporates elements of the sustainable materials showcased in EXP 100 GT.

For 100 years, Bentley has defined grand touring. To maintain the brand’s reputation for delivering extraordinary customer journeys, means appealing to existing and new luxury customers who seek socially acceptable brands, driven to be pioneers and role models of sustainability, with Beyond100 placing Bentley Motors firmly at the vanguard.

Bentley diventerà entro il 2030 un marchio esclusivamente elettrico.


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MessaggioInviato: ven nov 13, 2020 6:11 pm 
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Volkswagen Group raises investments in future technologies to EUR 73 billion.
The Volkswagen Group is pressing ahead with its transformation into a digital mobility company. As decided in Planning Round 69, the Group will spend around EUR 73 billion on electrification, hybrid powertrains and digital technology over the next five years. This was announced following today’s Supervisory Board meeting. Investments in Capex and R&D for future technologies will be raised to 50 percent from 40 percent of the Group’s total investments of around EUR 150 billion. Investments in digitalization will double to EUR 27 billion by mid-decade, reflecting the Group’s strong focus on building up software capabilities. Approximately EUR 35 billion will be spent on battery-electric vehicles. A further approximately EUR 11 billion has been earmarked for the development of hybrid vehicles of existing models.

“As part of Volkswagen Group’s investment planning, the Board of Management and Supervisory Board today set the cornerstones for securing the Group’s future success. The transformation of the Group and its brands and the strategic focus on the core areas of mobility will be consistently implemented. Considering the enormous challenges we face in the coming years, our financial basis is very solid,” said Hans Dieter Pötsch, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Volkswagen Group.

“Having set the course for a battery-electric future in the Volkswagen Group early on, we are now a global leader with our electric platforms and a broad range of electric vehicles,” said Herbert Diess, Chief Executive Officer of the Volkswagen Group. “In the coming years, it will be crucial to also reach a leading position in car software in order to meet people’s needs for individual, sustainable and fully connected mobility in the future. To that end, we have doubled our digitalization spend.”

Bernd Osterloh, Chairman of the General Works Council, commented: “The investments demonstrate that our Group walks the talk when it comes to transformation, electric mobility and digitalization. We will go fully on the offensive in the coming years. Yet, just as important as billion-euro budgets are a common understanding of the transformation and adequate planning reliability. This is where all of us – employees, managers, the Board of Management and also policy-makers – come in. As regards the latter, I am thinking in particular of Berlin and Brussels and hot topics such as charging infrastructure and high-speed Internet. Volkswagen is fully committed to climate-friendly, highly networked mobility. But for this, we and our customers need a reliable environment.”

The Planning Round is based on the expectation that the global economy will grow moderately over the next five years. Moderate growth with regional differences is also anticipated for the individual markets. The increase in productivity of 30 percent and savings in administration are to secure the transformation financially. In addition, the Group is systematically working on the optimization of its product portfolio. Thus, model variants, engine-transmission combinations and features that are less in demand will be streamlined in order to reduce the complexity and increase the efficiency of the portfolio. The planning excludes the joint venture companies in China, since they are not part of the consolidated group and finance investments in plants and products from their own resources.

Electric mobility and hybrid technologies

Volkswagen was the first automaker to commit to the Paris Agreement and aims to become climate neutral by 2050. Over the next ten years, the Group intends to launch approximately 70 all-electric models by 2030. Around 20 of these are already in production, with 50 more to follow. In addition, around 60 hybrids are planned by the end of the decade, slightly over half of which are already being manufactured.

The Planning Round envisages production of approximately 26 million fully electric cars by 2030. Some 19 million of these vehicles will be based on the Modular Electric Drive Toolkit (MEB), with most of the remaining seven million to use the high-performance PPE platform. The Group estimates production of around seven million hybrid vehicles over the same period.

Significantly greater emphasis on the key topic of digitalization

Due to the crucial role that software will play for Volkswagen’s future success, capital spending on digitalization will total around EUR 27 billion, double the amount set in the previous Planning Round. This includes spending on the Group’s Car.Software organization, which was successfully launched earlier this year. The goal is to build a proprietary software stack, which will be deployed in Audi’s Artemis project from 2024. The company's own share in software is to increase from 10 to 60 percent. In addition, a large share of the funds earmarked for digitalization will be invested in the mission-critical fields of artificial intelligence, autonomous driving and digitalization of significant business processes.

Transformation of Germany as a center of industry to be pushed

By investing in its German sites, Volkswagen, as one of the country’s largest industrial players, is contributing to a strong German economy, while continuing to push the country’s transformation into a more sustainable and more digital future with long-term job security. After Saxony, Lower Saxony will become Germany’s second center of electric mobility.

In Salzgitter, the Group will invest around one billion euros in the strategically important battery technology. In conjunction with its Swedish joint venture partner Northvolt, Volkswagen will build a cell production facility there that will start operation in 2024 and increase the competitiveness of Germany as an industrial location. This is a further key element in the successful transformation of the Volkswagen Group Components division, initiated back in 2015.

At the individual locations, the strategy of consolidating product families at multi-brand plants will be continued in order to leverage even more synergies between the brands and achieve further efficiency gains.

Wolfsburg will add a model to its portfolio: another SUV targeting the European market will roll off the assembly line from 2024. The site already produces the entire Golf family with all its derivatives, the Volkswagen Tiguan and the SEAT Tarraco.

In future, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles will build the all-electric ID. BUZZ1 at its Hanover location, along with three fully electric D-SUV models for other Group brands. The Hanover site is thus accelerating the transformation to electric mobility that has already commenced.

At the Volkswagen’s brand plant in Emden, the transformation is also progressing rapidly: while the construction work for the switch to electric mobility is fully on track, the second electric model for the site has now been defined. In addition to the ID.42, the four-door all-electric Volkswagen Aero1 is scheduled to be manufactured there from 2023.

At the same time, the Passat currently built in Emden will be produced in Bratislava, Slovakia, starting in 2023 – together with the ŠKODA SUPERB family – which will leverage synergies within the vehicle family here, too. Moving production of the SUPERB from the Czech plant in Kvasiny to Bratislava will give ŠKODA the necessary capacity in the Czech Republic to carry out the brand’s growth plan


Vw ha approvato il nuovo piano di investimenti, stranamente non c’è stata una forte riduzione degli investimenti, si parla al massimo di 4 miliardi in meno in 5 anni, quindi un taglio miserabile. Sempre più miliardi verranno investiti nel software e sempre meno nelle classiche auto.
L’impianto di Hannover, storicamente deputato alla produzione di veicoli commerciali e tragicamente improduttivo otterrà 3 suv elettrici. Superb e Passat verranno prodotte a partire dal 2023 a Bratislava. Emden, altro impianto tedesco assai improduttivo, otterrà oltre alla ID4 anche la Id aereo, una berlina elettrica tipo Passat.
Nessuna notizia riguardo alle elettriche sotto i 20.000 euro, segno che sono ancora in altissimo mare.


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MessaggioInviato: ven nov 13, 2020 6:27 pm 
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Bentley diventerà entro il 2030 un marchio esclusivamente elettrico.


Quindi in cosa sarà migliore dell'equivalente coupettone audi? La possibilità di aver del legno dentro?

Dal 6.75 V8 alle pile, che noia... :(

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Volkswagen Group will build a flagship electric car for Audi, Porsche, Bentley in Germany, Handelsblatt business paper reported.

The car, codenamed "Landjet," will roll off a new production line at VW Group's factory in Hanover, Germany, the paper said in a report published on Saturday.

The three row, seven-seat vehicle is being developed by Audi as part of its Artemis Project that is creating new technologies for electric, highly automated automobiles for VW Group.

VW Group picked its Hanover factory, which mainly builds commercial vehicles, for the Landjet because Audi's factories are too small, Handelsblatt said.

"The Landjet can go into series production quite quickly in Hanover and with less additional effort than in an Audi factory," a VW Group executive told the paper.

The Hanover plant will also produce the ID Buzz, a modern, full-electric version of VW's Microbus that became a 1960s icon.

The Landjet is expected to offer a range of 650 km (404 miles). Audi's version would launch in 2024 and versions for Porsche and Bentley would come later. Control of Bentley is being transferred to Audi from Porsche, company sources last month told Automobilwoche, a sister publication of Automotive News Europe.

It is not clear if the production Landjet will be a sedan or an SUV, or a mix of both.

VW Group said on Friday that it will produce three full-electric "D-SUV models" for other group brands at the Hanover plant. VW's press release did not mention the brands that will get the models.

Handelsblatt said the production Landjet will be a sedan that will be a rival to the next-generation Tesla Model S.

Bentley CEO Adrian Hallmark has previously hinted that the EV his company plans to launch by 2025 could have an SUV shape to allow for batteries to be positioned underfloor. This would give the car more space than the brand's traditional coupes and sedans, but with a smaller footprint.

Bentley said on Nov. 16 that it will switch its entire model range to full-electric vehicles by 2030.

Qualche dettaglio in più sui suv elettrici che Vw produrrà a partire dal 2024 nella fabbrica di Hannover.
I modelli saranno offerti con i marchi Porsche, Audi e Bentley (Crewe goodbye), deriveranno dal progetto Artemis (l’erede elettrica della A8), dovrebbero avere un’ autonomia oltre i 650 km.
Secondo Dusemann saranno le ammiraglie tecnologiche del gruppo. Si vedrà.


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Volkswagen Group is looking into potentially carving out its Lamborghini supercar and Ducati motorbike brands, it said on Monday, as the automaker seeks to streamline its operations and focus on mass-producing electric cars.

"We are working on our Italian legal structure," CEO Herbert Diess said, referring to Lamborghini, Ducati and design studio Italdesign, while adding that no decisions had been made.

Two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters last month that Volkswagen was drawing up plans for a potential spin-off or initial public offering of the brands.

Diess was speaking after Volkswagen announced on Friday it would increase its planned investment in digital and electric vehicle technologies to 73 billion euros ($86 billion) over the next five years.

Diess said on Monday that Volkswagen would miss its CO2 compliance target this year by "a gram or so."

He saw business recovering next year, with the company planning for a return to pre-COVID crisis levels in 2022, he said.

Per la prima volta Diess ha dichiarato che Vw sta cercando soluzioni per Lamborghini, Ducati e Italdesign. Imho entro metà 2021 verrà trovata una soluzione.


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Winkelmann kehrt zu Lamborghini zurück

Bugatti-Chef Stephan Winkelmann kehrt an seine alte Wirkungsstätte zurück: Er wird CEO von Lamborghini.

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Umzug nach Italien: Stephan Winkelmann. (Foto: Bugatti)
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Nach fast drei Jahren als Präsident von Bugatti kehrt Stephan Winkelmann, 56, vermutlich bereits am 1. Dezember als CEO zu Lamborghini zurück. Dort war er in gleicher Funktion schon von 2005 bis 2016 tätig. Das erfuhr die Automobilwoche.
Der Aufsichtsrat von Audi – Lamborghini ist der Ingolstädter Premium-Marke zugeordnet – soll schon am 17. November über die Nominierung entscheiden, die einen Tag darauf in Sant´Agata von den Gesellschaftern verkündet werden soll. Der bisherige Lamborghini-Lenker Stefano Domenicali verlässt das Unternehmen auf eigenen Wunsch und wechselt am 1. Januar 2021 zum Formel 1-Vermarkter Liberty Media.
Winkelmann leitet Lamborghini und Bugatti zunächst in Doppelfunktion. Eine ähnliche CEO-Doppelfunktion hatte einst Wolfgang Dürheimer inne, der 2011 an die Spitze von Bugatti und Bentley berufen wurde und diese Position nach einem Abstecher zu Audi ab 2014 wieder einnahm.
Stephan Winkelmann hat mit den Kleinserien Divo (40) und Centodieci (10) sowie mit dem Einzelstück La Voiture Noire (für Ferdinand Piech) und der Leichtbaustudie Bolide die Marke lebendig gehalten und gleichzeitig den Absatz des Chiron angekurbelt, von dem 500 Einheiten geplant sind. Die Versuche, eine zweite Baureihe auf die Räder zu stellen - die Rede war unter anderem von einem Frontmotor-Coupé und einem CUV – scheiterten nicht an mangelnder Kreativität und fehlendem Einsatz, sondern am hartnäckigen Veto aus Wolfsburg.
Wenn der in Berlin geborene Kosmopolit an seine frühere Wirkungsstelle zurückkehrt, erntet er zum Teil noch jene Früchte, die er selbst gesät hat, vor allem in Form des erfolgreichen Luxus-SUVs Urus.
Im Schulterschluss mit dem Konzernvorstand, Markus Duesmann und seinem Team vor Ort muss Stephan Winkelmann in den nächsten zwölf Monaten wichtige Weichen stellen. Während der Aventador-Nachfolger so gut wie in trockenen Tüchern ist, stehen die Zeichen für den Huracan 2.0 auf Anfang. Gleiches gilt für die Neuauflage des Urus und für eine vermutlich voll elektrifizierte vierte Baureihe, über die noch nicht entschieden wurde. Nachdem sich Audi wiederholt zu seiner italienischen Luxus & Sport-Tochter bekannt hat, dürfte die technisch näherliegende Querverbindung zu Porsche mittelfristig auf die Komponente beschränkt sein.
Winkelmann wird wohl ein begeisterter Empfang in der Emilia Romagna beschieden sein – schließlich hat der alte und neue Chef mit CTO Reggiani, Personalchef Tussini und dem Einkaufsverantwortlichen Foscini starke Verbündete, mit denen er über lange Jahre erfolgreich zusammengearbeiten durfte.
Was genau plant VW mit Lamborghini? Wie aus Wolfsburg verlautet, sind die Überlegungen, mit Lamborghini, Ducati und Italdesign an die Börse zu gehen, relativ weit gediehen. Wegen Covid und weil die Märkte noch Luft nach oben haben, will man diesen Schritt angeblich erst Anfgang 2022 vollziehen, wobei die Aktienmehrheit im Konzernbesitz verbleiben soll. Die Zeit bis dahin gilt es zu nutzen, um Lamborghini im Markenverbund noch wettbewerbsfähiger zu machen – Stichwort R Next als mögliches Audi-Schwestermodell des nächsten Huracan –, Car.Software.org als markenübergreifende digitale Klammer, und die modular aufgebaute Elektrifizierung im Premium-Segment. Ob dadurch im Bermuda-Dreick zwischen Sant´Agata, Zuffenhausen und Ingolstadt Ruhe einkehrt, wird sich zeigen


Winkelmann pronto a ritornare alla Lamborghini, reuters parla di un polo italiano (Italdesign, Ducati e Lamborghini) da portare in borsa. Non credo sia un’idea molto redditizia.


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Winkelmann kehrt zu Lamborghini zurück

Bugatti-Chef Stephan Winkelmann kehrt an seine alte Wirkungsstätte zurück: Er wird CEO von Lamborghini.

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Umzug nach Italien: Stephan Winkelmann. (Foto: Bugatti)
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Nach fast drei Jahren als Präsident von Bugatti kehrt Stephan Winkelmann, 56, vermutlich bereits am 1. Dezember als CEO zu Lamborghini zurück. Dort war er in gleicher Funktion schon von 2005 bis 2016 tätig. Das erfuhr die Automobilwoche.
Der Aufsichtsrat von Audi – Lamborghini ist der Ingolstädter Premium-Marke zugeordnet – soll schon am 17. November über die Nominierung entscheiden, die einen Tag darauf in Sant´Agata von den Gesellschaftern verkündet werden soll. Der bisherige Lamborghini-Lenker Stefano Domenicali verlässt das Unternehmen auf eigenen Wunsch und wechselt am 1. Januar 2021 zum Formel 1-Vermarkter Liberty Media.
Winkelmann leitet Lamborghini und Bugatti zunächst in Doppelfunktion. Eine ähnliche CEO-Doppelfunktion hatte einst Wolfgang Dürheimer inne, der 2011 an die Spitze von Bugatti und Bentley berufen wurde und diese Position nach einem Abstecher zu Audi ab 2014 wieder einnahm.
Stephan Winkelmann hat mit den Kleinserien Divo (40) und Centodieci (10) sowie mit dem Einzelstück La Voiture Noire (für Ferdinand Piech) und der Leichtbaustudie Bolide die Marke lebendig gehalten und gleichzeitig den Absatz des Chiron angekurbelt, von dem 500 Einheiten geplant sind. Die Versuche, eine zweite Baureihe auf die Räder zu stellen - die Rede war unter anderem von einem Frontmotor-Coupé und einem CUV – scheiterten nicht an mangelnder Kreativität und fehlendem Einsatz, sondern am hartnäckigen Veto aus Wolfsburg.
Wenn der in Berlin geborene Kosmopolit an seine frühere Wirkungsstelle zurückkehrt, erntet er zum Teil noch jene Früchte, die er selbst gesät hat, vor allem in Form des erfolgreichen Luxus-SUVs Urus.
Im Schulterschluss mit dem Konzernvorstand, Markus Duesmann und seinem Team vor Ort muss Stephan Winkelmann in den nächsten zwölf Monaten wichtige Weichen stellen. Während der Aventador-Nachfolger so gut wie in trockenen Tüchern ist, stehen die Zeichen für den Huracan 2.0 auf Anfang. Gleiches gilt für die Neuauflage des Urus und für eine vermutlich voll elektrifizierte vierte Baureihe, über die noch nicht entschieden wurde. Nachdem sich Audi wiederholt zu seiner italienischen Luxus & Sport-Tochter bekannt hat, dürfte die technisch näherliegende Querverbindung zu Porsche mittelfristig auf die Komponente beschränkt sein.
Winkelmann wird wohl ein begeisterter Empfang in der Emilia Romagna beschieden sein – schließlich hat der alte und neue Chef mit CTO Reggiani, Personalchef Tussini und dem Einkaufsverantwortlichen Foscini starke Verbündete, mit denen er über lange Jahre erfolgreich zusammengearbeiten durfte.
Was genau plant VW mit Lamborghini? Wie aus Wolfsburg verlautet, sind die Überlegungen, mit Lamborghini, Ducati und Italdesign an die Börse zu gehen, relativ weit gediehen. Wegen Covid und weil die Märkte noch Luft nach oben haben, will man diesen Schritt angeblich erst Anfgang 2022 vollziehen, wobei die Aktienmehrheit im Konzernbesitz verbleiben soll. Die Zeit bis dahin gilt es zu nutzen, um Lamborghini im Markenverbund noch wettbewerbsfähiger zu machen – Stichwort R Next als mögliches Audi-Schwestermodell des nächsten Huracan –, Car.Software.org als markenübergreifende digitale Klammer, und die modular aufgebaute Elektrifizierung im Premium-Segment. Ob dadurch im Bermuda-Dreick zwischen Sant´Agata, Zuffenhausen und Ingolstadt Ruhe einkehrt, wird sich zeigen


Winkelmann pronto a ritornare alla Lamborghini, reuters parla di un polo italiano (Italdesign, Ducati e Lamborghini) da portare in borsa. Non credo sia un’idea molto redditizia.

E perché? Perché è italiano? Italdesign mi sa che però è un po' una palla al piede...
Winkelmann ma come? :-)

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Allora, Diess è stato nominato ceo di Vw nel 2018 perché i Porsche/Piech e il sindacato non erano contenti di Müller giudicato troppo prudente.
Per farsi eleggere Diess ha promesso ai Porsche/Piech di elevare il valore borsistico di Vw. N.b. i Porsche-Piech possiedono solo Vw, non hanno nessun altra società di valore come gli Agnelli.
Da almeno il 2017 il management sta cercando di staccare pezzi del gruppo per venderli/quotarlo in borsa in modo non dissimile da quanto fatto da Marchionne con FCA.
Tutti puntano a Ferrari come esempio da seguire, c’è un piccolo problema: Ferrari è un gioiello, Lamborghini industrialmente parlando non è che 1/10 della grandezza di Ferrari. Grazie ad Urus è stabilmente in attivo con margini dell’11% ma sempre un nano rimane.
Ducati è redditizia ma parliamo sempre di una realtà industriale di scarsa rilevanza per un colosso come Vw.
Italdesign è pochissima roba.
Alcuni analisti suggeriscono un valore per Lamborghini pari a 10 miliardi di euro, mi domando su quale pianeta.
Vw è in salute nonostante la crisi COVID, ma deve affrontare investimenti enormi soprattutto nel software dove rimane assai indietro.
Il management sa che deve tagliare in modo importante per investire nel futuro.


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Skoda will gain the production capacity it has been lacking in recent years when production of the Superb midsize car moves to parent Volkswagen Group's multibrand plant in Bratislava, Slovakia, in 2023.

The Superb is currently built in Skoda's Kvasiny plant in the Czech Republic alongside the Karoq and Kodiaq SUVs. The success of those SUVs has led to increased waiting times as Skoda struggled to find alternative production locations.

VW Group's latest five-year investment program includes shifting Superb production to Bratislava. The Superb's sister model, the VW Passat, currently built in Emden, Germany, will be also moved to Bratislava.

Moving the Superb to Bratislava will allow Skoda to build more SUVs and also give the brand capacity for a new, unnamed model, Skoda said. "Customers will benefit from the overall increase in production capacity as they will be presented with shorter lead times," Skoda said in a statement.

Skoda has previously said an entry-level electric car underpinned by a new, low-cost platform will be built at Kvasiny.

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Skoda built 79,013 Superbs at Kvasiny last year, the brand's own data shows. It also produced 101,586 of the Kodiaq midsize SUV.

Production of the smaller Karoq SUV is currently split between Kvasiny and Skoda's flagship Mlada Boleslav plant in the Czech Republic, and the automaker did not separate out production numbers.

Skoda also builds the Ateca SUV for VW Group's Seat brand at Kvasiny, but it did not say whether that model would continue to be produced there under the new plans.

Skoda's need for extra production began a search for an additional VW Group plant, with Turkey initially chosen as the location for production of the Superb and Passat.

However, group CEO Herbert Diess recently told Automobilwoche, a sister publication of Automotive News Europe, that the coronavirus pandemic had forced the automaker to reassess its production requirements, leading to cancellation of the Turkey plant and the increased investment in Bratislava.

The Bratislava plant builds the Volkswagen Touareg, Audi Q7, Audi Q8 and Porsche Cayenne SUVs, alongside the VW Up, Skoda Citigo and Seat Mii minicars, according to Automotive News Europe's Assembly Plant Map. Bodies for the Bentley Bentayga SUV are also built at the factory.

VW will build a new assembly line and a new body shop at Bratislava as part of the expansion, which will cost nearly 1 billion euros ($1.18 billion). The production of the minicars is expected to end as VW Group exits the segment because of falling sales

All’interno del gruppo Vw Skoda è stata più volta criticata perché non riesce a occupare segmenti pseudo low cost, soprattutto contro i coreani.
Le Skoda sarebbero troppo premium per quello che è il posizionamento del marchio.
Pare che qualcosa si stia muovendo in quella direzione, a seguito del piano 86 (il piano quinquennale che Vw ogni novembre attualizza) Skoda sposterà la produzione della Superb in Slovacchia, in tal modo Ksvany avrà più capacità per produrre Kodiaq e Karoq, ma la casa ceca vuole produrre un nuovo modello su una piattaforma low cost.
Ritengo che sarà una citycar elettrica su un pianale MEB molto impoverito, parliamo di un’autonomia di al massimo 250 km. Vedremo.


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Peccato perché secondo me le ultime skoda sono davvero centrate (prezzi non proprio bassi, ma ottimi in rapporto ai contenuti e alla qualità).
La nuova Octavia darà parecchio fastidio a Passat e Superb secondo me.
D'altronde, i prezzi di Vw e di Audi sono saliti, alla fine non vedo la necessità di spostare Skoda più in basso. Piuttosto, dovrebbero decidere cosa fare con Seat, dato che come marchio sportivo non è che abbia mai funzionato granché.

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Peccato perché secondo me le ultime skoda sono davvero centrate (prezzi non proprio bassi, ma ottimi in rapporto ai contenuti e alla qualità).
La nuova Octavia darà parecchio fastidio a Passat e Superb secondo me.
D'altronde, i prezzi di Vw e di Audi sono saliti, alla fine non vedo la necessità di spostare Skoda più in basso. Piuttosto, dovrebbero decidere cosa fare con Seat, dato che come marchio sportivo non è che abbia mai funzionato granché.

Infatti secondo me il problema è seat non skoda, appena rivista ultima octavia a differenza di golf 8 qui su che veramente a livello estetico il cambiamento in meglio è netto, niente fa invidiare a una a4 business...
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La scelta di spingere verso il basso Skoda è solamente politica, non dettata da logiche aziendali.
Il marchio Vw vuole continuare ad essere inefficiente, in qualsiasi altra azienda si punirebbe il marchio Vw per favorire Skoda (che bei inteso fa margini lievemente inferiori a quelli di Audi).
Seat sotto Stackmann e De Meo ha avuto assai più successo che prima, il marchio sembra avere trovato un suo posizionamento, anche se nessuno all’interno di Vw si aspetta che riesca ad avere margini superiori al 5%.
L’idea (imho folle) di trasformare Seat in Cupra è stato bloccato, vedremo come andrà la Formentor, che imho ha grosse potenzialità.


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Alla recente conferenza per l’annuncio del nuovo piano quinquennale di Vw il nome di Tesla è stato ripetuto ben 31 volte. Segno che ormai Diess, Witter e soci sono ossessionati dal costruttore californiano.
Nella tabella che posto qui sotto Tesla vale 4 volte più di Vw eppure vendite e profitti non sono per niente paragonabili.
Il mercato può giustificare tali valutazioni solo se Tesla dominerà il mercato elettrico come adesso di fronte ad un’esplosione delle vendite. Vedremo.


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Volkswagen AG’s chief is struggling to win support for his picks to fill top executive posts and is pushing the carmaker’s board to back more significant reforms, according to people familiar with the matter.

The automaker’s works council is opposing Herbert Diess’s candidates to succeed Chief Financial Officer Frank Witter and fill the vacant purchasing chief position, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the discussions are confidential. The two roles are key to Diess’s efforts to cut costs and boost efficiency at VW, which just approved a 150-billion euro ($178 billion) investment plan.

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Diess, 62, is running into fresh internal resistance after making tepid progress untangling the company’s unwieldy conglomerate structure and focusing on its main car operations. In talks with key stakeholders, the CEO has raised the prospect of lengthening his contract past 2023, but winning support for a required two-thirds voting majority from VW’s supervisory board would be an uphill battle, according to the people. Usually the contract would be up for renewal a year before it expires.

Spokespeople for VW and the works council declined to comment. Representatives for the Porsche and Piech family, who own the majority of the company’s voting shares, didn’t respond to requests for comment.

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The infighting could bog down VW’s efforts to challenge Tesla Inc.’s electric-car leadership with a record 73 billion euros of spending on technology over the next five years. Diess has said the company’s survival rests on undergoing a massive transformation to run its cars on batteries and sophisticated software.

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VW’s CFO Witter, 61, plans to step down from the post at the end of June 2021 for personal reasons. The carmaker has been looking for a purchasing chief since announcing in June of this year that Stefan Sommer would leave after less than two years in the job.

Some investors have questioned VW’s commitment to change after past pledges were delayed or watered down. Diess has frequently clashed with the influential unions that often are backed by the German state of Lower Saxony, the company’s second-largest shareholder with a 20% stake. The board took away the CEO’s direct control of the namesake VW brand in June following a dust-up over his request for a contract extension and other issues.

The Porsche and Piech family generally supports Diess’ overhaul efforts. But the billionaire clan that holds a 53% voting stake tends to avoid direct conflicts with the unions and Lower Saxony, which have far-reaching veto rights cemented by company bylaws.

Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Arndt Ellinghorst wrote an open letter to family leaders Wolfgang Porsche and Hans Michel Piech last week, urging them to clarify if Diess still enjoys their full support.

“It is very disturbing to see the ongoing public infighting between the workers council and management,” Ellinghorst wrote, without being specific. “It is impossible to run a company when every controversial management decision is being undermined from within the organization.”

287esima puntata delll scontro tra Diess e Osterloh. Il manager austriaco vorrebbe nominare il nuovo direttore finanziario e il responsabile dei componenti (l'ex capo Stefan Sommer proveniente da ZF è stato cacciato pochi mesi fa perché aveva la pretesa assurda di tagliare i costi, non sapeva che l'unico scopo di esistenza in terra di Vw è quello di creare il paradiso socialista in terra ?).
Diess non era riuscito ad ottenere un rinnovo del contratto questa primavera e a giugno era stato praticamente defenestrato dai sindacati. Solo i Porsche-Piech lo salvarono.
Oltre alle miserabili avventure di Diess ed Osterloh c'è la necessità per Vw di tagliare in modo pesante per sopravvivere alla rivoluzione tecnologica. Già prima del dieselgate il gruppo Vw funzionava con un enorme freno a mano azionato a causa della produzione in house di troppi componenti.
Adesso questo svantaggio competitivo rischia di diventare schiacciante. Osyerloh è riuscito ad ottenere la conversione di Salzgitter in impianto di produzione di batterie ma Vw non riuscirà ad evitare massicce riduzioni di personale.


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Tensions at the top of Volkswagen Group are spilling over into public view, with CEO Herbert Diess criticizing opponents within the company who are standing in the way of radically transforming the automaker.

Writing in the German business newspaper Handelsblatt, Herbert Diess said that the company is highly influenced by labor unions who sometimes have different interests than shareholders.

"When I took office in Wolfsburg, I had firmly resolved to change the VW system," Diess said. "That means: breaking up old, encrusted structures and making the company more agile and modern. Together with many companions with the same level of motivation, I have succeeded in doing this in many places, but not in some, especially not yet at our corporate headquarters in Wolfsburg."

The latest call to speed up VW's overhaul reflects the challenges Diess, 62, has had pushing through more dramatic reforms.

Diess has struggled to win support from key stakeholders for his picks to fill top executive posts, people familiar with the matter said earlier this week, and is angry at the slow progress the company has made untangling its conglomerate structure and narrowing its focus to key brands.

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The comment about persistent inefficiencies at VW's headquarters echoes remarks supervisory board member Wolfgang Porsche made at the Geneva auto show last year, which upset labor representatives. In a rare moment of candor, the leader of VW's reclusive owner family criticized the amount of sway unions have over the company.

Diess wrote that VW's management is "conditioned on internal competition, shaped by Ferdinand Piech," referring to Wolfgang Porsche's deceased cousin who shaped the industrial giant over two decades as CEO and chairman.

Diess said the company's scale, history and prowess at engineering and manufacturing traditional vehicles do not protect the organization from disruption and "can even turn into a burden in a time of dramatic change."

The changes sweeping the auto industry "will happen in the next ten years, with or without Volkswagen," Diess wrote.

Diess has mounted an aggressive push into electric vehicles that analysts see becoming a competitive advantage, but his hard-nosed management style has irritated people across the organization. He joined VW from BMW five years ago and pushed aside several executives in a sweeping shakeup of management this summer.

Renewed infighting with unions could drag down VW's efforts to challenge Tesla's electric-car leadership by spending a record 73 billion euros ($87 billion) on technology over the next five years.

Diess has repeatedly clashed with VW's unions that often are backed by the German state of Lower Saxony, the company's second-largest shareholder with a 20 percent stake. The board took away the CEO's direct control of the namesake VW brand in June following a disagreement over his request for a contract extension and other issues.

Diess si è appena sparato nelle palle (metaforicamente parlando).
Ha criticato apertamente Osterloh e ha chiesto un rinnovo del contratto di 5 anni, richiesta già rifiutata a maggio.
Deciso a farsi cacciare.


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Diess si è appena sparato nelle palle (metaforicamente parlando).
Ha criticato apertamente Osterloh e ha chiesto un rinnovo del contratto di 5 anni, richiesta già rifiutata a maggio.
Deciso a farsi cacciare.
Vuole trattare la buona uscita?


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Secondo me lo cacciano su due piedi. Altro che buonuscita.


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Secondo me lo cacciano su due piedi. Altro che buonuscita.
Ma a quel punto non avrebbe più vincoli di non concorrenza e forse è proprio questo che vuole


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Possibile.

Non collegato alla cacciata di Diess, VW potrebbe cancellare la Passat Berlina in Europa, rimarrebbe solo la variante sw.


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-- Volkswagen will discontinue the Passat sedan in the U.S. and Europe as the automaker increases its focus on electric vehicles and SUVs, company sources familiar with the plans said.

In Europe, VW will keep only the Passat station wagon when a new generation of the midsize car is due toward the end of 2023, the sources told Automotive News Europe. The wagon will continue in markets such as Germany where the body style remains popular.

U.S. sales of the Passat increased 25 percent during the first three quarters, according to VW of America data, but were low at just 16,190 units.

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The Passat is Europe's No. 1-selling midsize model, with a volume of 88,478 through October, according to JATO Dynamics market researcher. Its closest competitor at No. 2 and platform mate, the Superb from sister brand Skoda, had sales of 47,889 during the same period.

Management has no plans to replace the current U.S. version because of the continued shift away from sedans to crossovers such as the Atlas.

"Going forward, the size of this market in the United States will be negligible," said a senior VW manager briefed on the brand's future product rollout.

The U.S. version of the Passat is built at VW's plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., where the automaker also produces the Atlas crossover. The Atlas is VW brand's No. 2-selling model in the U.S. after the Jetta. Atlas sales fell 37 percent to 37,927 in the first three quarters. VW tallied an additional 17,990 sales of the newly introduced Atlas Cross Sport over the same period.


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VW builds the Passat for Europe in Emden, Germany. Production of the midsize car will move in 2023 to the company's factory in Bratislava, Slovakia, where it will be built alongside the Superb, VW said in a statement on Nov. 13.

The Superb will target midsize buyers in central and eastern Europe, where sedans are preferred. The move will reduce internal competition between VW brand and Skoda, another VW source said.

VW is freeing up its Emden plant to build only battery-electric vehicles including the ID4 crossover and a midsize electric sedan codenamed Aero B. The ID4 is also scheduled to be built in Chattanooga starting in 2022. Company sources say it would make sense to produce the Aero in Tennessee as well.

The popularity of midsize sedans has been dropping fast in Europe, largely due to buyers gravitating either toward SUVs for greater cargo space and towing volume or to fastbacks that have a sportier silhouette.

Business fleets are now the main European purchasers of midsize sedans. In Germany, nine out of 10 Passats are registered to corporate buyers, who usually choose the wagon version for its greater functionality.

U.S. buyers have become even less enthusiastic about the midsize sedan segment, sealing the fate of the Passat. U.S. sales of midsize cars, once a cornerstone of industry volume, have steadily dropped in recent years, with volume down 27 percent in the first three quarters this year, after dropping 7.8 percent in 2019.

Some brands -- notably Ford, Chrysler, Buick and Dodge -- have already abandoned the segment.


Only the station wagon version of the Passat will be available in Europe after 2023.
The Arteon, a midsize fastback variant priced above the Passat and built in Emden in sedan and shooting brake versions, will also not be replaced. VW will focus on the production version of the coupe-styled Aero in sedan and wagon body styles.

Whether the production version of the Aero will be built in Chattanooga or imported from Germany, remains unclear.

VW sold 11,234 Arteons in Europe through October and 2,641 units of the car in the U.S. in the first three quarters

Articolo completo. Sarà cancellata anche la Arteon, che sorpresa. :?


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The options will be put on the table,” one of the sources said, adding that the outcome of the deliberations remains unclear.

Volkswagen declined to comment.

Reuters reported on Friday that Diess had asked the families who control a majority voting stake in Volkswagen to back extending his contract as a vote of confidence in his leadership.

Diess’ has encountered opposition from the board to his efforts to reform the multi-brand car and truck maker and he may review his position if his attempts continue to be stifled, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Diess was appointed head of the VW brand in 2015 and group chief executive in April 2018. His contract is due to expire in 2023 and German companies tend to deliberate over contract extensions only a year before they expire.

The company’s executive committee is chaired by Hans Dieter Poetsch, and includes Wolfgang Porsche and Hans Michel Piech, as well as VW’s labour chief Bernd Osterloh and Lower Saxony premier Stephan Weil.



Martedì verrà deciso il destino di Diess.


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Ma perché è già in dubbio adesso?

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