{"id":684391,"date":"2026-07-10T15:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684391\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T15:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:02:11","slug":"vw-group-plans-to-slash-number-of-models-in-restructuring-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684391\/","title":{"rendered":"VW Group plans to slash number of models in restructuring plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Volkswagen Group will slash the number of models offered by its various brands by up to half and substantially cut production, as part of a range of measures set to include up to 100,000 job cuts and a number of plant closures.<\/p>\n<p>The German giant \u2013\u00a0whose brands include Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini, Porsche, Seat, Cupra, Skoda and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autocar.co.uk\/car-review\/volkswagen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Volkswagen<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0said the moves were in reaction to substantial pressures on its business model, including increased Chinese competition, regulation, tariffs and geopolitical tension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Volkswagen Group will slash the number of models offered by its various brands by up to half&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-684391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}