ah. volkswagen, the company that ditched projects like the id-2 - an affordable car, to build crossover suv’s for short term earnings until the market got saturated. the same company that made less profit last year despite the fact it’s still profit and in return booted 30.000+ workers to save money. that company is now investing into AI to fire even more workers… yea fuck VW.
ah. volkswagen, the company that ditched projects like the id-2 - an affordable car, to build crossover suv’s for short term earnings until the market got saturated.
That’s simply not true. They didn’t ditch the ID. 2, they renamed it ID.Polo, a well known name that existed for 50 Years now. That simply makes sense to use the known name. I’m pretty sure the next ID.3 will be called ID.Golf as well. Yes, there’s the the ID.Cross too, but it’s on the same “MEB Entry” platform the ID. Polo uses as well. That’s just another exterior for the car, just like the T-Cross and Polo, ID.3 and Cupra Born, ID.4 and Skoda Enyaq, Golf and T-Roc etc.
yea they decided to make an affordable electric car after the suv market collapsed. korean and other european carmakers like renault offered sub-30k€ electric cars for the past 5 years.
Renault offers small sub 30k evs since 2013, just like vw, Renault Zoe and VW e-up! (later seat and skoda versions exist too). The VW is even smaller then the Zoe.
Btw, when was the collapse of the SUV market? The first development stage shown of the ID. Polo was the ID. Life in 2021, 2023 shown again as ID. 2 all and now ID. Polo. The development must have started at least in 2020 and at least I haven’t heard of a big SUV market collapse back then and it wasn’t visible in the streets…
Practically all carmakers have been laying off people (and are investing in AI) of late. Legacy brands like Nissan, Chinese-owned Volvo (which cut 3,000 jobs back in the spring), Porsche have laid off thousands of employees. New players like China’s BYD has stumbled repeatedly, shelved a large plant over Trump’s tariff concerns, closed a Brazilian project amid allegations of “slavery-like” labor conditions, and failed to secure approval for a $1 billion India facility over New Dehli’s national security concerns.
ah. volkswagen, the company that ditched projects like the id-2 - an affordable car, to build crossover suv’s for short term earnings until the market got saturated. the same company that made less profit last year despite the fact it’s still profit and in return booted 30.000+ workers to save money. that company is now investing into AI to fire even more workers… yea fuck VW.
That’s simply not true. They didn’t ditch the ID. 2, they renamed it ID.Polo, a well known name that existed for 50 Years now. That simply makes sense to use the known name. I’m pretty sure the next ID.3 will be called ID.Golf as well. Yes, there’s the the ID.Cross too, but it’s on the same “MEB Entry” platform the ID. Polo uses as well. That’s just another exterior for the car, just like the T-Cross and Polo, ID.3 and Cupra Born, ID.4 and Skoda Enyaq, Golf and T-Roc etc.
yea they decided to make an affordable electric car after the suv market collapsed. korean and other european carmakers like renault offered sub-30k€ electric cars for the past 5 years.
Renault offers small sub 30k evs since 2013, just like vw, Renault Zoe and VW e-up! (later seat and skoda versions exist too). The VW is even smaller then the Zoe.
Btw, when was the collapse of the SUV market? The first development stage shown of the ID. Polo was the ID. Life in 2021, 2023 shown again as ID. 2 all and now ID. Polo. The development must have started at least in 2020 and at least I haven’t heard of a big SUV market collapse back then and it wasn’t visible in the streets…
Practically all carmakers have been laying off people (and are investing in AI) of late. Legacy brands like Nissan, Chinese-owned Volvo (which cut 3,000 jobs back in the spring), Porsche have laid off thousands of employees. New players like China’s BYD has stumbled repeatedly, shelved a large plant over Trump’s tariff concerns, closed a Brazilian project amid allegations of “slavery-like” labor conditions, and failed to secure approval for a $1 billion India facility over New Dehli’s national security concerns.
Volkswagen really has the best managment. Love from !fuckcars@lemmy.world