VW Group Confirms new Minicars for VW, Seat and Skoda Brands - Automotive News

The Volkswagen Group has revealed that it will introduce a new family of small cars based on the Up! prototypes for the VW, Seat and Skoda brands. Europe's largest carmaker announced that it has also taken the decision to build all variants of the minicar that are known as "New Small Family" at its Bratislava plant in Slovakia. The first examples of the city cars that will be available in 3-door and 5-door versions will roll off the production lines at the beginning of 2011. "Our team at Volkswagen in Slovakia is ideally prepared to provide the flexibility required for the production of the New Small Family. Four brands are already produced successfully under one roof at our plant in Bratislava today," said Professor Dr. Martin Winterkorn, Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft.

The first examine for those comparatively cheap city cars, the 3 -door Up!, made its world debut at the Frankfurt Show in 2007 accompanied a few weeks later by a 5-door generation called Space-Up! At the 2007 Tokyo Motor Show at the same time as VW additionally brought a third variant on the 2007 Los Angeles Show known as the Space-Up! Blue.

Even even though the Up! Idea studies featured a rear-engine, rear-wheel pressure layout, it remains to be seen if the VW Group keeps this architecture at the manufacturing versions.