MOTOR Magazine Australia

Alex Affat

Porsche handed over the blueprints of its most sacred model, the 911, to Volkswagen and said; ‘make a mini version on the MQB platform, give it an EV powertrain, and price it at $60k with uncapped production’. Imagine the furore. People on one side calling it genius, and countless others proclaiming that Volkswagen Group had killed 70 years of rear-engined brand

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