The new Lupo
Therefore two new entrance models are in planning with VOLKSWAGEN. One is f?M?te like Russia and India intended, where a hard competition of new ridiculous price cars of the impact of the Dacia Logan appears, which booked world-wide 247514 permissions in the past year.
The second entrance Volkswagen is fully cut to the west against it. Below the Fox, which is to be offered to new small VOLKSWAGEN at least in its current form up to the series start in the year 2010, the Lupo II becomes the Benjamin role in the program?rnehmen.
The focused entrance price is with approximately 8000 euro. Das becomes a knuffiges car, gives to technique executive committee Ulrich heel mountain the Sto?ichtung f?den small ones, whose technical basis also f?die company marks will serve Skoda and Seat. Four persons plus Gep? are place to find, a particularly economical drive is considered as if must.
Two technique concepts are calculated at present: An interesting due to the scarce allowed time however less probable variant is a rear propulsion layout, which are completely again developed m?te. Here k? an engine to the employment, that, closely platzierter behind the axle, in order to receive gen?nd usable interior, to be lying installed m?te. From Gr?en of the Fahrstabilit?w?en m?ichst many components like the battery for better mass distribution in front accommodated. With the front axle relieved by the engine weight k?n the technicians without a guidance assistance out. a cost advantage.
As more probable however the classical front wheel drive concept with crosswise installed engines is considered. The existing, in the models VOLKSWAGEN Polo, Skoda Fabia and Seat Ibiza already hundredthousandfold used company platform PQ 24, on which also the new is based AUDI a2, which is built starting from 2009 in the Volkswagen work Br?el, fits in technically simplified form perfectly. The enormous production volume lowers the costs of each individual construction unit in mA?, that on this basis even the f?Indien and Russia planned, again cheaper notchback and combination model comes into economic range. Its building is probable?igens with Skoda in Tschechien. Even if these are certainly still planning games.
With a L?e of 3.70 meters. nevertheless zw? Centimeter more than with the Lupo I. the w?e Lupo II for his part over zw? Centimeters more k?er fail than the current Fox: Place of enough f?vier persons. An adjustable R?sitzbank, with which the existing L?e variable uses itself to favour of the passenger or of the Gep?raums l?t, will on board be. As power sources are a new loaded two-cylinder, the well-known 1,2-Liter-Dreizylinder with 64 HP and the 1,4-Liter-Vierzylinder with 80 HP in the Gespr?. Conceivablly is besides a pure electric drive f?den city traffic, that from today's view however because of the small range and the still difficult disposal of used batteries. a deficiency in principle also with hybrid vehicles. to be only sp?nachgereicht d?te.
company point this plan is rubbish. Also the new Volkswagen steering wheel Martin winter grain does not want to build a new small car - however with Fiats and Fords. Instead this task is to be solved internally. Unfortunately the modular transverse component system (MQB) is suitable, which for few weeks with high pressure is developed, not at all for a model of the 5000 to 8000-Euro-Klasse. Finally this matrix must take everything off after today's conditions from the next Poloto the trade wind successor simply. Therefore one favors a radically alternative drive and body concept, which exhibit surprising parallels to the Smart and to the beetle in wolf castle. The speech is from a completely new, compact tail engine layout, which should be clearly more favorable to manufacture than each still so slim MQB variant. While for Europe the classical three and four-cylinder stand in the foreground, if necessary still more economical two and a cylinder are intended for the developing countries. Thus the cheapest differs from the most expensive version alone by motorizing around full 1250 euro.
In contrast to the beetle the Lupo Ii engines are water-cooled. And also with the finishing technique the product planners enter new ground. Here it applies to save through simplified procedures, accelerated operational sequence and reduced equipment variety costs. Slogan: The basis model comes without extras off the line, but over modular package solutions nearly all options without much expenditure can be integrated into the production process. In a first step that is to be offered and built about 3.50 meters short four seaters starting from model year to 2011 in Europe. Because the time pushes, the developing countries must before-dear-take first with the relatively rapidly available Golo. Only in a second step the tail engine matrix is developed further to the world car.