- The Volkswagen and Ford groups have activated their global alliance after long months of negotiations, discussions having started as early as July 2019. If the common projects had already been mentioned by the two players, no concrete elements had been communicated so far. Today it’s done for some of them.

- Volkswagen and Ford will focus much of their cooperation on light utility vehicles (LUV). Three projects have been identified:

1.The first will concern the pick-up market and will be launched in 2022. Ford will take the lead here since the future VW Amarok will be based on the Ranger and will therefore be assembled alongside it in South Africa, at Silverton.

2.The second project will concern the production by Volkswagen, on behalf of Ford, of an urban delivery van which will this time be based on the new generation of Caddy unveiled in 2020. The future Ford Transit Connect and VW Caddy will therefore be produced in Poland, from the second half of 2020 for the new Caddy and from 2021 for the Ford.

3.Then will be added to the cooperation, a light utility vehicle that can go up to a ton of load. The project remains to be detailed, but it is confirmed that Ford will take the lead in the development and production. The idea is that the Transporter is developed and produced by the American carmaker and becomes a derivative of the Transit Custom.

- Passenger cars will also be on the cooperation program, in the strategic area of electrical vehicles. Ford will here benefit from Volkswagen's MEB platform in Europe to have zero emission products in its product range. The agreement is for the moment on a C-segment BEV (battery electric vehicles) which will be assembled by Ford in Cologne.