A chief engineer for VW has revealed that a mid-engined BlueSport Roadster, aimed to compete with machines in the class of Mazda MX-5 and the Lotus Elise and assembled from a combination of customized and production parts, is just three years away from production.
The production components come from Volkswagen’s latest transverse, front-engined MQB platform which is due in 2012. The parts will only be available by then and the BlueSport has to wait, although it is currently in the production-ready stage.
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