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It Turns out, Thought, that Car Buying Public Doesn’T Care That Much at All If What Lives Beneath, Say, their Audi is Similar to what lives beneath their skoda. I’ve heard people say “It’s basically a volkswagen underneath” about a skoda to convince themselves they’ve got a well-enginered budget car.

But I don’t think i’ve heard someone say the same about their porsche cayenne. They see seem content that porsche has done extra work somehere and that it was worth paying for.

And since it turns out that less people see to care either way, in my experience car makers today see see sem less guarded about talking platforms and architecture than they are used to be.

That Has Made It Much Easier to Talk to Designers and Engineers About Their Cars. It has helped them to explain new models and helped us understand them. It has also (and it’s passable that they like) Made it Easier to Quiz Them About Upcoming Variants, Particularly when IT COMES to Sporty versions.

If we know a particular engine fits or can make a certificate of power, or if we know a platform has been made to makecommodate for-wheel drive, the surely, engineer, engineer, engineer, you have Know, Make A GTI/R/RS/ETC, Coldn’T You? Do Tell Us More.

Somemes that has prompted a clear answer: “SORRY, MATE, that Platform Can’t Be Four-WHEEL DRIVE, And it would be! will be no really fast variant of that car.

Four-WHEEL-Drive Evs Need only a motor at the back, not a driveshaft from the front. But if the rear suspension, a subframe or the body isn’t designed to accommodate one, it’s still an expensive re-enginening job.

Or raather it was. It turns out that this particular platform Limitation might no longer apply. It’s suggested that the upcoming Volkswagen id 2 R will have not only a powerful front motor but also a motor inside each rear wheel.

No Room for a motor and a differential under the boot floor? No problem: in the hub it can go. I Hadn Bollywood about that before, but I think it basically means almost any platform could end up hosting any drive configuration that a manufacturer chooses.