Ford and VW have been matey before. Remember the original Galaxy, same car was sold as the VW Sharan and Seat Alhambra. All made in the same Portuguese factory. All used the same engines except Ford used their own 2.3 petrol in the poverty model whereas Seat and VW used their own 2 litre.

Had forgotten about that tie up they had.

Ford and VW have been matey before. Remember the original Galaxy, same car was sold as the VW Sharan and Seat Alhambra. All made in the same Portuguese factory. All used the same engines except Ford used their own 2.3 petrol in the poverty model whereas Seat and VW used their own 2 litre.

I remember that. I was so hoping that Ford would build it at their Dagenham plant and call it the 'Tracy' instead of the Galaxy. :-)

I suspect there will be a lot more tie-ups sooner rather than later, given the economic worries due to the pandemic. I just heard that my local major employer, Johnson Matthey (who make most catalytic converters) are shedding 2500 jobs worldwide over the next year.

It wouldn't surprise me that we see a good number of established names in the motoring industry either get gobbled up by rivals, part bought-out or just wither and die (GM), as well as these tie-ups. I know that Mazda now have a tie-up with Toyota to jointly develop hybrid and electric vehicles.

Ford and VW have been matey before. Remember the original Galaxy, same car was sold as the VW Sharan and Seat Alhambra. All made in the same Portuguese factory. All used the same engines except Ford used their own 2.3 petrol in the poverty model whereas Seat and VW used their own 2 litre.

Hardly just poverty model;Ford used both 2.0 DOHC and the 2.3 in ALL trim levels.