The A2's Resurrection?

[teazel]

When visiting my local Audi dealership to investigate typical service costs on a possible used A2 purchase (between £220 - £250, by the way), the service manager volunteered that the A2 production track was in the process of being transferred to the SEAT manufacturing plant in Spain. His impression was that production of the A2 would continue there.

 

[Johann]

Perhaps bits of it yes... But when you tool for a new car hardly any of the machines etc of an old production line can be re-used. It is cheaper to totally re-tool than to adapt some of these things. So you totally move the line and build the EXACT same car somewhere else - or nothing. There is no inbetween.

The aluminium A2 basics were too expensive to make and the car too small for the resultant price. I think he is pipe-dreaming like many dealers. Why would Audi tell THEM something like that?! He has no idea what is going on IMHO.

See my post re VW/Audi's future plans:

http://www.a2oc.net/forum/showthread.php?t=3237

No mention of A2-esque thing from SEAT. And if there was a small A2 from SEAT it would be based on the next Polo platform as would the next A2 have been been had there ever been one...

 

[Will]

I suspect he was talking about the robots on the line rather than the tools like Johann mentioned. Sadly I am almost certain the A2 is no more and any future A2 type vehicle would be based on the VW Polo platform. In this day of low cost manufacturing it is almost impossible for a single platform mass market vehicle to go into production.