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Is Chevy copying Volkswagen?


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#1 SammyBirdland

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Posted 17 April 2015 - 09:34 AM

I recently got a 2011 VW Jetta for my wife, so the look and feel of that car is fresh on my mind.    Then, this week I rented a Chevy Sonic for some traveling I had to do for work.  I immediately noticed some design parallels where Chevy seems to be drawing some...ahem... "inspiration" directly from VW.

 

 

Volkwagen:

 

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Volkswagen:

 

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Chevy:

 

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Volkswagen:

 

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Chevy:

 

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Volkswagen:

 

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Chevy:

 

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Volkswagen:

 

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Chevy:

 

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Posted 17 April 2015 - 09:46 AM

Car companies copying each other is surprising? 


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#3 NewMarketSean

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Posted 17 April 2015 - 09:47 AM

I'm a Ford guy so I would say yes, they are copying VW because Chevy sucks. ;)

 

Actually, Ford and Chevy have been adopting more of their European stylings here in America so it makes sense that it starts to look like a VW.

 

My wife has a VW...it's a nice car and I had gotten into DIY work on my cars but the VW is pretty foreign to me. I did replace brakes on it so that wasn't too different from American cars.


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Posted 17 April 2015 - 10:23 AM

These days, they buy many of the bits from suppliers.  The suppliers are scattered all over creation.   Some of those items might come from the same pseudo-catalog.


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