How building electric cars are forcing rival brands to become partners

Volkswagen is the master of making car families work together to make each brands' cars better - (Steve Fowler)

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It used to be much simpler. Ford made Fords, Renault made Renaults, and Jaguar Land Rover made Jaguars and Land Rovers. You might have known that a Skoda shared a few hidden bits with a Volkswagen, Seat or Audi, but you did not need a corporate family tree and several coloured pens to work out who was in bed with whom.