When I was a kid we had cars trucks, and vans. That was it. No, this isn’t a stay off my lawn moment, but I am prone to those. It is actually meant to highlight how it was a simpler time across the automotive landscape back in the 1980s. OK, it was slightly more complex …
Volkswagens’ MQB chassis is a prolific Swiss Army Knife of a platform. Underpinning everything from compact hatchbacks, to sedans, vans, crossovers, up to budget supercars like the VW Golf R and Audi TT RS. The MQB is a generational successor to the venerable A platform of the original Golf, which itself was a replacement for …
In order to combat rising production costs, platform-sharing has become an extremely common practice for vehicle manufacturers. Volkswagen Group has taken this practice to a whole new level, putting over a dozen big sedan and crossover models on its MLB Evo chassis. The Evo itself is a stretched version of the standard MLB platform, which …
Shedding their old boring image, station wagons have become another segment that car fans pine for. From a practical standpoint it’s easy to see why, as wagons can marry the cargo space of an SUV with the road manners and handling of a sports sedan. Like everything fun, this segment has basically gone extinct in …