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Originally Posted by chulooz
Revised and new are not the same, dont be naive.
Im no chassis engineer so I cannot comment on the changes necessary in using key designs in one chassis and applying them to another, but it seems like you may be able to take the blueprints in a broad sense and reapply them elsewhere. Does you lexus have a different chassis for its RWD model?
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by that defintion, only chinese manufacturers have "new" chasis, because nobody starts from the clean slate, it would not make sense to do so.
My thought would be that team working on the car (and it is several hundred people usually) comes from both Subaru and Toyota.
There are certainly no two separate teams working on this car, nor would there be reason for it.
From all the testing that is done in Germany, it seems it is lead by Toyota. Nevertheless, chief engineer could still be from Subaru. Which would also make sense as I would suppose that 80% of cars sold will be Toyotas. Probably even more.