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Wednesday, 12 December 2007 |
Volkswagen has been showing thier new range of small family cars around the globe over the past 14 weeks “These cars embody the emergence of a new era. No explanation is needed - they speak for themselves.” said Walter de Silva, Chief Designer of Volkswagen Group.
The IAA in Frankfurt saw the new VW Up! Concept, in Tokyo we were introduced to the larger Space Up! Concept, which as the name suggests, offers more space. The latest member of VW’s New Small Family range is strangely called the “largest small VW”, if that makes any sense,at 3.68 metres length and 1.63 meters wide, it’s a small matter of 23cm longer than the up!
This results in a wheelbase of 2.56m, nearly 10cm longer than their current supermini, the Fox, despite being over 12cm shorter in overall length. And the LA Show brought us the zero-emission Space Up! Blue Concept.
The new rear-engines small cars will become a major cornerstone for the plans Volkswagen has to compete with Toyota. The Up! concepts are all built on the new MHB platform, one of the four new platforms at Volkswagen.
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