{"id":474708,"date":"2010-03-18T11:04:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T15:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/?p=17359"},"modified":"2010-03-18T11:04:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T15:04:04","slug":"could-suzuki-build-a-japanese-vw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/474708","title":{"rendered":"Could Suzuki Build a Japanese VW?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Volkswagen-Suzuki<\/a>Volkswagen is planning to rebadge Suzuki models as VWs, board member Detlef Wittig revealed in an interview with the company’s employee newspaper, autogramm<\/em>, which was published today. Moreover, Suzuki could take the lead in the group-wide development of subcompact cars and minicars. “We are looking to profit from Suzuki’s know-how in small cars,” said Wittig.<\/p>\n

VW has trouble making money on small cars, and is ill-prepared to tackle the growing global market for low-cost cars. “Where VW’s portfolio ends, Suzuki’s begins,” Wittig says, and he elaborates: “Today, they are selling 2.3 million cars annually, and they are making money in this segment.” A new Wolfsburg-based office is currently being created to initiate common projects. It’s not yet clear whether such vehicles would appear in the U.S., but we won’t rule it out. We expect the cooperation to start on sub-Polo-size vehicles, which wouldn’t have a place in our market.<\/p>\n

While VW gets cheap cars to rebadge, Suzuki gets hybrid technology. The SX4 will likely be equipped with a VW hybrid powertrain in the near future.<\/p>\n

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Last year, Volkswagen bought close to 20 percent of Suzuki’s shares<\/a> to initiate a “long-term strategic partnership” between the two companies. Suzuki plans to use half of that revenue to buy VW shares.<\/p>\n

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    Volkswagen is planning to rebadge Suzuki models as VWs, board member Detlef Wittig revealed in an interview with the company’s employee newspaper, autogramm, which was published today. Moreover, Suzuki could take the lead in the group-wide development of subcompact cars and minicars. “We are looking to profit from Suzuki’s know-how in small cars,” said Wittig. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6406,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}