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• Walter de'Silva
  ...ile design|car designer]] from [[Italy]], and currently in charge of all [[Volkswagen Group]] design. In 1998 he was poached from Alfa by [[Ferdinand Piëch]] to work for the [[Volkswagen]] Group's [[SEAT]] division with the hope he could inject the same verve an
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• Twin-clutch gearbox
  ...e seven-speed DCT for the 1001-horsepower [[Bugatti Veyron]] 16.4, another Volkswagen Group product.
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• Small family car
  ...us]], [[Opel Astra]], [[Peugeot 307]], [[Renault Mégane]] and [[Volkswagen Golf]]. [[Image:Mk3golf.JPG|200px|thumb|right|A [[Volkswagen Golf]]]]
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• Compact MPV
  ...nclude [[Opel Zafira]], [[Citroën Xsara Picasso]], [[Ford Focus C-Max]], [[Volkswagen Touran]] and [[Fiat Multipla]]. In few years, compact MPVs outsold [[statio ...tional sixth and seventh seat - example include [[Volkswagen Golf Plus]]/[[Volkswagen Touran|Touran]] or [[Renault Scénic|Renault Scénic/Grand Scénic]].
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• Twin-clutch Gearbox
  ...n the VW Golf, VW Jetta, VW Passat, VW Touran, Audi A3 and Skoda Octavia. Volkswagen are believed to be developing a family of DCTs to go across the VAG product ...duces the 7-speed DCT for the 1001-horsepower Bugatti Veyron 16.4, another Volkswagen Group product. Cima produces the 7-speed DCT for the Koenigsegg CCX.
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• VR6 engine
  ...ngine''' is an internal combustion engine configuration developed by the [[Volkswagen Group]]. It is similar to the [[V engine]], but with the [[cylinder (engine ...° VR6 engine, it was possible to install a six-cylinder engine in existing Volkswagen models. A wider [[V6 engine]] of conventional design would have required le
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• Family car
  ...us]], [[Opel Astra]], [[Peugeot 307]], [[Renault Mégane]] and [[Volkswagen Golf]]. ...nclude the [[Ford Mondeo]], [[Opel Vectra]], [[Renault Laguna]], and the [[Volkswagen Passat]].
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• Giorgetto Giugiaro
  *[[VW Golf|Golf]] (1974) *[[Volkswagen Passat|Passat]] (1973)
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• Economy car
  ...program ground to a halt because of [[World War II]], but after the war, [[Volkswagen]] would be founded to produce the car in the new democratic West Germany, w ...the production of the first high-performance [[sport compact]]s like the [[Volkswagen GTI]], which combined economy of use with driving fun.
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• Vehicle size class
  |[[Mid-size car|Mid-size]]||rowspan=2|Large family car||D class||[[Volkswagen Passat]] ...ompetitor. The [[VW Polo]] is smaller, so it belongs one segment below the Golf, while the bigger Passat is one segment above.
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• FR layout
  ...uccess of small [[FF layout|FF]] cars like the [[Mini]], [[Volkswagen Golf|Volkswagen Rabbit]], and [[Honda Civic]] led to the widespread adoption of that layout
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• Fiat Ritmo
  | Similar || [[Volkswagen Golf]]<br>[[Ford Escort]]<br>[[Toyota Tercel]]<br>[[Talbot Horizon]]<br>[[Opel K ...o drive but not an ultimate hot hatch in the same vein as the [[Volkswagen Golf]] ''GTI''.
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• City car
  ...the European models — especially the '''[[Opel Agila]]''' (2000) and '''[[Volkswagen Lupo]]''' (1999) —, yet still showed decent reliability. However, sales w ...famous small car brand, as had been done with the [[Volkswagen New Beetle|Volkswagen Beetle]].
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• Innocenti Regent
  ...hatchback]], was emerging in Europe, with designs such as the [[Volkswagen Golf]]. This configuration would go on to dominate the market for small family c
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• Fiat Tipo
  |Competitors:||[[Ford Escort]]<br>[[Volkswagen Golf]]<br>[[Yugo Florida]] The car has been extremely popular in Brazil. It outsold the [[Volkswagen Gol]], which had been the best-selling Brazilian car for over 20 years. Jus
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• Torsion beam suspension
  ...Beetle), a post-war lawsuit resulting in a DM3,000,000 settlement paid by Volkswagen to Ringhoffer-Tatra in 1961. ...en]], introduced transverse-mounted torsion beams (possibly based on the [[Volkswagen Type 3]] passenger car) until production ended in 1989 (with Chrysler's M p
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• Straight-5
  ...traight-five engine which is used in the [[VW Jetta|Jetta]] and [[VW Golf|Golf/Rabbit]]. Also [[Fiat]] make use of their superb 5-cylinder engines (both p
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• Hatchback
  ...in North America) of 1973, followed by the much more popular [[Volkswagen Golf]] (Rabbit in North America) in 1974. ...the most popular auto sector in Europe. The third generation [[Volkswagen Golf]] was launched in 1991 and elected European Car of the Year. Fiat replaced
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• Car classification
  |[[Mid-size car|Mid-size]]||rowspan=2|Large family car||D class||[[Volkswagen Passat]] *[[Volkswagen Polo]]
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