Didn't Toyota have a 'Take over the World' master plan something like this?V-Dub is investing $51.6 Billion Euros ($71B US) over next 5 years... $27.7 Billion of that for new product and re-design (to overtake Toyota in sales & profit ironically enough)Wow, i've not seen other mfr's plans for development, but those $$ are pretty shocking to me...http://noir.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=adxBTOCCtMH4&pos=13
Don't forget VAG includes VW, Audi, Seat, Skoda, Porsche, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Bentley. It's a large operation.
Quote from: WxyOne18 on November 19, 2010, 02:52:53 pmDidn't Toyota have a 'Take over the World' master plan something like this?V-Dub is investing $51.6 Billion Euros ($71B US) over next 5 years... $27.7 Billion of that for new product and re-design (to overtake Toyota in sales & profit ironically enough)Wow, i've not seen other mfr's plans for development, but those $$ are pretty shocking to me...http://noir.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=adxBTOCCtMH4&pos=13"Take over the world" financial plan. Valuing sales numbers instead of quality (just look at the MkVI Jetta). We've seen this before, repeatedly. There's a reason why I jumped ship from the VW barge.
I think the price reduction is well worth the cost cutting on the Mk6.