Back With A Bang

Volkswagen Group entrusts the responsibility of its India 2.0 project to Skoda, new range to hit the roads in two years.

- Afzal Rawuther

SKODA HAS JUST BEEN HANDED OVER THE reins of VW Group’s ambitious project – India 2.0 – that will tackle the challenges of the Indian market particularly cost. At the heart of this transformation is the India specific MQB-A0-IN platform that will underpin the cars that Skoda will engineer and sell in India under the Skoda and VW banner. This will allow them to take advantage of Skoda’s lower latent cost of operations and Skoda aims to achieve an unprecedented 90 per cent localisation in