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Lamborghini confirms SUV, launch in 2018

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Lamborghini, a Volkswagen Group company, confirmed that a luxury SUV will join its product range as its third series model, with market introduction planned for 2018. This will be Lamborghini’s first SUV since the LM002, which was built between 1986 and 1993. —Rupert Stadler, Chairman of the Board of Management Audi AG.

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Polestar 4 mid-sized EV SUV revealed ahead of 2024 Australian on-sale

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EV brand Polestar has unveiled its new 4 mid-sized SUV that arrives in Australia in the first half of 2024. But the five-seat Polestar 4 doesn’t have a traditional SUV profile, instead adopting a coupe-inspired roofline. With Polestar 4 we have taken a fundamental new approach to SUV coupe design,” says Thomas Ingenlath, Polestar CEO.

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Volkswagen to invest up to $5 billion in Rivian over the next 2 years, companies will share software – Charged EVs

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EVs from Volkswagen brands, including Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini and Bentley, will follow. The investment will provide Rivian funding it needs to launch its less expensive and smaller R2 SUV in 2026, and to develop its new R3 crossovers, CEO R.J. Rivian’s upcoming R2 will be the first vehicle to use software from the JV.

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Novelis breaks ground on automotive aluminum facility in Changzhou, China; $180M investment to double capacity in 2020

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The $180-million investment will double the facility’s production capacity of heat-treated aluminum sheet by 100,000 metric tons in order to better meet the growing demand for automotive aluminum in Asia. The facility will also be equipped with a high-speed slitter, and a fully automated packaging line.

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Volkswagen Group: Foshan Plant Phase II mega-factory key for China; strengthening e-mobility strategy

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The first SUV-model of the Volkswagen brand built by FAW-Volkswagen—the T-Roc—successfully rolled off the line in April this year. Together with the Audi Q2L, which will also start production this year, T-Roc is a vital building block in the fast growing SUV segment in China.

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Volkswagen Group deliveries top 1 million vehicles in one month for first time in September

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Vehicles from our brands are thrilling more and more customers worldwide – our new SUVs in particular are very popular. This positive trend was driven by the launch of the Atlas SUV and the new Tiguan in the USA (+21.8%). The Volkswagen Group handed over 436,700 vehicles to customers in the Asia-Pacific region in September, 6.1%

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A Volkswagen brand pickup will not happen, but we still have Scout’s EV truck coming

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The VW Amarok is based on Ford’s newest Ranger and is for sale in Europe, Asia, and Africa, but not North America. Source: Scout) “Since Scout was iconically a rugged SUV brand, that’s what we’ll bring to life,” Scout brand CEO Scott Keogh said in December. It’s a completely unique platform — ground up being engineered and developed.”

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