Jetta is a car brand created by the Volkswagen Group with its joint venture partner FAW Group in 2019. The Volkswagen Jetta is a popular car in China, and the model forms the basis of the new company, with two additional SUV models joining the range.
12-937: Jetta may refer to: Automobiles [ edit ] Jetta (marque) , a car marque by FAW-Volkswagen Volkswagen Jetta , a German compact sedan People [ edit ] Jetta (musician) , British musician Jetta (wrestler) , British professional wrestler Given name [ edit ] Jetta Carleton (1913–1999) American novelist Jetta Goudal (1891–1985) Dutch-American actress Jetta Klijnsma (born 1957) Dutch politician Surname [ edit ] Kurt Jetta (born 1961), American consumer researcher Leroy Jetta (born 1988), Australian footballer, Essendon Football Club Lewis Jetta (born 1989), Australian footballer, Sydney Swans Neville Jetta (born 1990), Australian footballer, Melbourne Football Club Other uses [ edit ] 544 Jetta , an asteroid Jetta (company) , an American company operating in
24-515: A system for introducing rationality to different platforms that have transverse engines, regardless of the ten body configurations the company manufactures for any of its eleven vehicle brands. Thus MQB coordinates a core "matrix" of components across a wide variety of platforms — for example, sharing a common engine-mounting core for all drivetrains (e.g., gasoline, diesel, natural gas, hybrid and purely electric), as well as reducing weight. The concept allows different models to be manufactured at
36-458: A variety of cars, (the company) plans to cut the time taken to build a car by 30%." The car blog Jalopnik said "The biggest feature is the uniform position of all motors and transmissions" and that "by fitting all motors into the same place (the company) hope(s) to cut down on engineering costs and weight/complexity when porting the car over to other models." Around 60% of the development costs occur between gas pedal and front wheels, including
48-616: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Jetta (marque) The Jetta cars are built in Chengdu at an FAW-Volkswagen joint venture plant. At the time, when the Jetta brand was introduced, Harald Müller was the company president. In May 2020, Harald Müller revealed in interviews that there's been interest in the brand from outside China. In August 2020, there are plans to potentially export Jetta-branded vehicles outside China, but
60-674: The company has not disclosed which target markets they want to aim at. At the beginning of July 2024, cars under the Jetta marque began to be sold in Russia. The cars are made by FAW Group but reportedly use Volkswagen technology like the Volkswagen Group MQB platform and the Volkswagen EA211 engine . Volkswagen had left Russia in 2023. Die Zeit contacted Volkswagen Group China, who denied that it or any of its joint ventures were exporting to Russia. Die Zeit found that
72-522: The engine. MQB models range from superminis to large family cars . The MQB architecture replaces the PQ25 , PQ35 and PQ46 platforms. All MQB cars will share the same front axle, pedal box and engine positioning, despite varying wheelbase , track and external dimensions. The "first-generation" MQB platform underpins various vehicles from C-segment upwards. The "second-generation" MQB debuted in 2016, which also introduces three different types of
84-609: The notebooks market Jetta: Tales of the Toshigawa , an independently created comic book Jetta of the 21st Century , a 1952–1953 comic book created and drawn by Dan DeCarlo . Jetta Handover, a fictional character in the TV series Clifford the Big Red Dog ; see List of Clifford the Big Red Dog episodes See also [ edit ] Jeddah Jeta (disambiguation) Jetter (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
96-520: The owner of the Russian website for Jetta and other companies involved in the export were divisions of FAW Group, suggesting that neither Volkswagen nor FAW-Volkswagen itself were involved. Volkswagen Group MQB platform The Volkswagen Group MQB platform is the company's strategy for shared modular design construction of its transverse , front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout (optional front-engine, four-wheel-drive layout ) automobiles. It
108-441: The same plant, further saving cost. Ulrich Hackenberg, chief of Volkswagen’s Research and Development (Head of Audi Development until 2015), called MQB a "strategic weapon." British magazine Car said "the idea heralds a return to basic principles of mass production in an industry where over the last 100 years, complexity has spiralled out of control. By creating a standardised, interchangeable set of parts from which to build
120-461: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Jetta . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jetta&oldid=1196815246 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
132-460: The strategy under the code name MQB , which stands for Modularer Querbaukasten , translating from German to "Modular Transversal Toolkit" or "Modular Transverse Matrix". MQB is one strategy within VW's overall MB (Modularer Baukasten or modular matrix) program which also includes the similar MLB strategy for vehicles with longitudinal engine orientation. MQB is not a platform as such, but, rather,
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#1732776025498144-643: Was first introduced in the Volkswagen Golf Mk7 in late 2012. Volkswagen spent roughly $ 8bn developing this new platform and the cars employing it. The platform underpins a wide range of cars from the supermini class to the mid size SUV class. MQB allows Volkswagen to assemble any of its cars based on this platform across all of its MQB ready factories. This allows the Volkswagen group flexibility to shift production as needed between its different factories. Beginning in 2012, Volkswagen Group marketed
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