Design legend Giorgetto Giugiaro has styled a hybrid coupe and an electric minivan for Volkswagen that preview possible greener models for Europe's biggest automaker.
Giugiaro's Italdesign company unveiled the Tex plug-in hybrid-electric coupe and the Go electric medium minivan at the Geneva auto show.
Both vehicles are underpinned by VW's new MQB modular transverse platform architecture that debuts next year on the new Audi A3.
"Italdesign is a creative center for fresh ideas and its integration in the Group is a building block in our effort to take Volkswagen to the top of the automotive industry by 2018," VW Group CEO Martin Winterkorn said in a statement.
Last spring, VW group bought a 90 percent stake in Italdesign to add more design and engineering capacity as the company strives to topple Toyota Motors Corp. as the world's No. 1 automaker.
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