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Volkswagen Presents the Platform Modulate Transversal (MQB)
03/02/2012
3 February 2012
This year, the Group Volkswagen will enter the Platform Modulate Transversal (MQB) for the marks Volkswagen, Audi, Škoda and SEAT. The strategy MQB represents a turning point in the design and production of future trucks with motors mounted transversalmente. The Platform Modulate Transversal standardises a lot of parameters of the components of the vehicle, without mattering the mark and neither the segment. At the same time, it offers access to the new technologies. The MQB extends from the segment To0 until the B. In the mark Volkswagen, for example, applies to the models Polo, Beetle, Golf, Scirocco, Jetta, Tiguan, Touran, Sharan, Passat and Volkswagen CC. In the future, all these models in could be theoretically produced on the same line of setting, in spite of his distinct distances and widths between axles. Also it will be possible to produce jointly models MQB of different marks. The first new vehicles in being produced from the MQB will be the successor of the Audi To3 and the following generation of the Golf.
One of the characteristics stood out of the Platform Modulate Transversal is the uniform position of setting of all the motors. Here, there are two integrated cheese cheese systems in the strategy MQB that play a key paper: the system modulate of engine of petrol (MOB) with the new range of motors EA211 (of 60 to 150 CV) —this range includes to the first engine of four cylinders with deactivation of cylinders (ACT) in the world— and the system modulate of motors diesel (MDB) with the also new range of motors EA288 (of 90 to 190 CV). With these new ranges of motors of the strategy MQB, will reduce in roughly 90% the variants of motors and boxes of change of the group. And all this, without negative effects. On the contrary, in addition to the standardisation of the conventional motors of internal combustion, the MQB also allows to mount in the same position and without limitations all the current concepts of alternative propulsion: from the versions of natural and hybrid gas until the purely electrical propulsion. Volkswagen Already has announced the launching of this last with the MQB in the new Golf Blue-and-Motion, in 2013.
