BMW has long been with the X6, Mercedes is planning it and now wants to VW one. We’re talking about an SUV-Coupe. At the Tokyo Motor Show, the Wolfsburg give the Cross Coupe Concept Study view of a possible new model – as well as to new technology and design.
Scolded one has the time for the BMW X6, an SUV-coupe is unnecessary and pointless. And even though this may be true in its simplest, the Bavarian sells gorgeous monster. Of this, other manufacturers will benefit, but so far there are besides the Infiniti FX is no real competitor.
Certainly, that is a Mercedes M-Class Coupé is working, but that will come onto the market before 2015. At the Tokyo Motor Show is now joined by another, a possible candidate to: the VW Cross Coupé, but currently only as a study.
Tiguan Base Coupe
For a VW gives the concept car a very close-view of an SUV-Coupe. Unlike BMW and Mercedes, take their battleships X5 and ML as a basis, VW does not return to the Touareg, but to its smaller brother, Tiguan, so will the Wolfsburg-based appeal to a much broader audience than with a luxury SUV.
Same time, the 4.32-meter-long Cross Coupé an outlook on the future design language of the Wolfsburg-based carmaker. Clearly visible are the more powerful radiator grille integrated in the headlights as well as significantly shorter overhangs; that await you at upcoming models such as the 2012 Gulf starting 7th Otherwise, the Cross Coupé is characterized by clean design with distinctive beading, rich C-pillar, the gently sloping rear tail lights out and narrow.
Modular principle
But not only on the future design can be close to the Cross Coupe, also under the sheet metal is the SUV-Coupe free to look into the future. So with the new model architecture study VW celebrates its premiere. The so-called modular transverse matrix should be characterized by a significantly increased flexibility and enable a variety of compact-class models at reasonable prices.
In future, at least 43 models are built with the same modules (floor, axles, steering, seat frames and engine-transmission unit), and that the Group, including Audi, Skoda and Seat. A similar concept is ready for Audi, which is since 2007 the modular longitudinal matrix used. First production car based on the new kit in the coming year, the new Golf.
