Interesting leak that has occurred in China. The new joint venture between Volkswagen and Jianghuai has unveiled the new electric models that it will produce in a factory of the German brand in the Asian giant in the coming years. A document that also confirms the arrival of a CUPRA saloon in the European market, as we exclusively anticipate.
volkswagen and CUPRA will manufacture electric models in China, specially adapted for customers in this domestic market. The leak of an internal document of the association that the German firm maintains with those responsible for Jianghuai is one of the most interesting in recent times, as it not only confirms that the new Volkswagen Anhui factory will have a significant workload with five new zero emission models for the next three years, until 2025.
Three from Volkswagen and two from the Spanish brand. Without a doubt, this is great news, but it is much more interesting in several other aspects. The document clearly shows that the two models of the SEAT sports firm are the new CUPRA Tavascanscheduled to go into production in the second half of this year and with the commercial launch scheduled for the second half of 2023, as a 2024 model. And, beware, because it confirms the sports saloon that we advance you exclusively and that will arrive in the middle of the decade.
The electric CUPRA Sedan will be a reality, for China and Europe
Both models also will be marketed in Europe, which we also knew, but not that these models will also be sold at the giant with specifications for this Asian market, and manufactured in the Far East. The two most immediate are the SUV of the Spanish brand and the Volkswagen ID.5, both with a sportier style and defined with a more coupé body, although it will be Spanish is the one that will truly accumulate a significant bulk of sales: 62,000 compared to 35,000 units, almost double for the Spanish model.
The leak also makes it clear that the Spanish sports sedan will have an equivalent alternative developed for this Asian market, and that we have already seen camouflaged in tests on the roads of the country’s large cities. Its about Volkswagen ID.7 -for now, known internally as «Aero B»- which will debut in mid-2023 with a more modern design inspired by that of the Space Vizzion concept.
Volkswagen’s Chinese plant in Anhui will also build a model with a type body. «notchback», a sedan with three volumes which will be developed specifically for the largest Asian market in the world and which, like the previous ones, will all share the MEB platform. This will be the fifth, and last, model to arrive before the new scalable “SSP” platform for all electric cars of the Volkswagen group will debut in early 2026.
Source: Cheshi.com