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Originally Posted by nikitopo

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.

Swapping some components does not mean the same platform. They have not been using a single platform "for decades" and this is the biggest news to come out of Subaru ever. It will totally change how they can manufacture cars. They will still offer different drive lines in the same platform. As usual you spew the rhetoric without understanding one part of a concept.