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Originally Posted by krayzie
@ nikitopo
Okay I finally found the diagram which I saw many years ago on the web:
Well you can call it progress in terms of a supposedly cost savings exercise, but not progress in the traditional sense (I mean come'on let's face it; the dude at Das Auto who actually came up with this got canned soon after it was implemented lmao). |
This demonstrates where people are getting all bent outta shape on the use of the term "platform". They are still envisioning it as the literal use of a base that only certain bodies can go on and can only use the same type of drivetrain. The new Subaru global "platform" is much more like the VW Toolkit set up than the first "platform" shown in the picture. They just continue to use the same term even though the application is radically different. The manufacturing benefits to this method are massive.