When you look at Volkswagen’s product line, you can see it does not has any vehicle that can carry over 5 people at this moment (for VW brand only).
Maybe you have heard VW is filling this gap with a 7-seater model based on the CrossBlue concept SUV recently.
The CrossBlue can carry 6 people, but the production version will change the second row seat to accommodate three people (instead 2 in the concept car), thus increase the total capacity to 7 persons.
While VW has not told us where the US market version will be made, today news come out that at least for the Chinese market, the 7-seat SUV will be made by Shanghai Volkswagen.
For those of you who are not familiar with Volkswagen’s China operation, here are some background information: currently VW has registered two distinct companies in China: one is called FAW-Volkswagen, and another is Shanghai Volkswagen. The FAW-Volkswagen has factories in Changchun and Chengdu; and the Shanghai Volkswagen has factories in Shanghai, Nanjing, Yizheng, Ningbo and Xinjian. However, we are not sure whether VW will export the made-in-China SUV to other markets in the world.
The below image is the Shanghai VW buildings.
The CrossBlue based SUV will be build on the VW MQB platform.
China is a extremely important market for Volkswagen. If you read our previous news that VW sold more Audi A6 than Toyota Camry in China for the last month, you will understand why.
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