{"id":361120,"date":"2026-09-05T20:06:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T20:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/volkswagen-is-halving-its-lineup-and-shuttering-its-fortress\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T20:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T20:06:25","slug":"volkswagen-is-halving-its-lineup-and-shuttering-its-fortress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/volkswagen-is-halving-its-lineup-and-shuttering-its-fortress\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen is halving its lineup and shuttering its fortress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/09\/volkswagen-is-halving-its-lineup-and-shuttering-its-fortress.jpg\" alt=\"ArenaEV\"><br \/>The ghost of Ferdinand Pi\u00ebch must be pacing the offices in Wolfsburg, cursing into the fluorescent lights. The gospel according to Volkswagen used to be simple, quite arrogant for sure, but very effective: conquer every conceivable niche, buy every badge not bolted down, and build an industrial machine so monstrous it could literally steamroll the whole planet. Whether you wanted&hellip; <a href=https:\/\/www.arenaev.com\/volkswagen_is_halving_its_lineup_and_shuttering_its_fortress-news-6211.php target='blank'>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/09\/volkswagen-is-halving-its-lineup-and-shuttering-its-fortress.jpg\" alt=\"ArenaEV\"><br \/>The ghost of Ferdinand Pi\u00ebch must be pacing the offices in Wolfsburg, cursing into the fluorescent lights. The gospel according to Volkswagen used to be simple, quite arrogant for sure, but very effective: conquer every conceivable niche, buy every badge not bolted down, and build an industrial machine so monstrous it could literally steamroll the whole planet. Whether you wanted&hellip; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/volkswagen-is-halving-its-lineup-and-shuttering-its-fortress\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":361121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arenaev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}