Confirmed: VW Group plans to halve model range as part of huge cuts

The Volkswagen Group has confirmed plans to halve its model range, dramatically reduce its technical complexity, cut around 50,000 jobs and potentially close four plants as part of the most extensive restructuring programme in its history – and Autocar has learned that it will retire the Seat brand before the end of the decade.

The measures form part of the German car maker’s newly approved Future Plan 2030, which also calls for around 50,000 further job reductions, sweeping changes to its engineering and manufacturing operations and a major reduction in planned investment.