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Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG
Why couldn't you have a two door and a four door that had the same rear sub frame, suspension and drive components. Front sub frame, suspension and steering components. Same transmission, same engine?
If the main component attachment points are of similar dimensions, the cars become Lego's. The term "platform" is kind of a broad term.
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Yes, but this has been done by Subaru for decades. For example you could swap without issue components between a Forester and a WRX STI and in fact the factory has done this quite often in their limited editions. It is not something really new. If what they realy mean now as a "global" platform is to have for example a single CVT and place it in all the models , when in the past you had a 5-MT, a 6-MT, a 4-AT, a 5-AT and a CVT then I don't really see it as a progress. It is as you said trying to play Lego, but now with fewer pieces and much less diversity.