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Jaguar and Land Rover to Adopt VW Approach to Sharing Platforms

One of the many reasons that VW is able to stay profitable and do quite well, even in the face of the depressing economic situation of Europe, is the fact that they have a limited number of adaptable and customizable platforms which they use to underpin a lot of their cars, without the need to develop new ones.
Jaguar XJ Platform 1 photo
Photo: Jaguar
The Jaguar-Land Rover group currently use as many as seven different platforms, a number they want to shrink down to two or three more adaptable ones, to use in a variety of new vehicles. Their case in point is the new MQB platform, which underpins virtually all new compact VW group cars. The next car to be revealed using the aforementioned platform is the all-new Skoda Octavia.

Jaguar’s global brand director, Adrian Hallmark said: "It won’t happen overnight. VW’s MQB platform will take seven years to roll out across the models it will underpin.” However, we say the that J-LR group will never have such a wide variety of cars to underpin, so once the new platform or platforms are developed, it will take them less than seven years to ‘roll them out’ across the range.

Story via autocar.co.uk
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