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There are temptingly cheap jokes to make following the announcement that the green light was given for architecture strategy shared vehicle of the future between Audi and Porsche so here goes.
The obvious concern a pitchfork wielding army of Porsche fans sweeping down the Swabian hills to protect 911s, Caymans and Boxsters against the forced introduction of understeer in place of management feel Roots in the race, poses Vorsprung Durch Technik encounter on the battlefield and all.
This is obviously a course nonsense Ferdinand Piech has given us both the Porsche 917 and the Audi Quattro, the RS2 Before benefited from Porsche know-how and parts and technical collaboration within the range of current products is well known by peers in a Porsche Macan and you will see a lot of stamped components Audi its foundations common Q5, eg V6 and V8 engines of the new Panamera are co-developed with Audi and both brands benefit from the larger group VW parts longstanding sharing economies of scale.
However, since all you have to ask why Audi has taken the trouble to issue a press release today highlighting in particular the fact that the technical collaboration between the two brands has been given the green light mentioned above above.
The best brains of both companies together define the technical course for the future, said the boss of Audi Rupert Stadler We are united by many common values, especially through our research of the best solutions and the best deals for our clients Up now, so business, his counterpart Porsche Oliver Blume echoing the feeling while trying to reassure it won t see Porsche Audi absorbed into the machine we will cooperate wherever it makes sense, he said in the release, but we will also be very careful to maintain the distinction between our brands is always a Porsche a Porsche, and will remain in the future.
Look at it this way; Audi has stuck by his guns hanging heavy engines above the front axle and worked on creative ways to reduce the unfavorable treatment attributes this brings Porsche and vice versa with its rear-engine models could literally answer the benefit the middle of the two brands.
Probably not these basic values probably survive any attempt to integrate brands and iconic products in the respective ranges are just Expect instead an extension of what's already happened with unskilled profitable product to enter the emphasis is on the joint development of the architecture of shared vehicles, modules and components that will allow Porsche to look at the Audi resources when developing products such as the Mission-E and who knows, maybe Audi wants to make a RS2 other type of project and sling some Porsche bit part of his Audi Sport product worked last time.
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