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Audi kills TT, VW cuts Golf lineup to make room for EVs

Clockwise, from top left: The Audi TT is out. The Volkswagen Golf family will lose base Golf versions and the SportWagen in North America. The Audi R8 likely won’t survive, either. (AUTOMOTIVE NEWS ILLUSTRATION)
May 27, 2019 04:00 AM

Volkswagen Group's aggressive $50 billion strategy to put large numbers of battery-electric vehicles on the world's roads likely will also spell the end of the line for some of Audi's low-volume halo models, and on the Volkswagen side, a strategic slim-down of offerings in the mass-market brand's Golf family of vehicles for North America.

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