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      01-25-2013, 04:00 PM   #75
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Originally Posted by ToyotaBMW View Post
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Also you can't take a FWD car engine and mount it to an AWD car so the engines aren't even the same. A4 2.0T engine is not the same as a 2.0T engine from VW.
Hmmm, no. Audi is seeling AWD and FWD versions of the car. Of course you can mount a FWD engine on an AWD car. You just add a Haldex or something. But the platform has to accomodate the change, or having been designed for it.
Audi is also developing its own platform that it shares with the VW group, as a VW subsidiary.
The 2.0T is one of the most ubiquitous engine in the VW group galaxy. It's in the the GTI, the Jetta, the Passat I think, the CC, a few Skodas and some Seats, not to mention the A3, A4, A5, A6 and perhaps even A7.

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Most of the parts from VW, Audi, BMW, and Merc are all made from the same suppliers anyways. So you can think that your BMW is superior but in reality it is made from parts from same suppliers as VW/Audi.
Yes. So? Those brands are car manufacturers in the sense that they mostly assemble car, and design some parts to be manufactured by suppliers.
Audi and BMW famously both use the ZF 8 speed across their line-ups.

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I guess Porsche, Lambo, and Bentley are also just VW's.
If you still want to think that Audi is a VW than the BMW will just be a Toyota since they will be sharing parts later on with the co-operation in sharing technologies.
Well if the technology that comes out of the agreement is put in both BMWs and Toyotas in the same way, then yes, those BMWs will partly be Toyotas.

But the "same suppliers" story is different. They manufacture parts designed either by BMW or by an independent supplier. Audi or Merc had nothing to do with that.
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