PsychoFish
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Chevrolet Corvette ZR1
The reality is that many car manufacturers have shared platforms. GM, Ford/Mazda and Kia/Hyundai are probably the best examples.
Take the GM4200 platform that was used for the following cars Chevrolet Montana, Chevrolet Agile, Chevrolet Prisma, Chev Classic, Chev Celta, Chev Corsa, Chev Chevy, Buick Sail, Holden Barina, Opel Corsa A & B, Opel Vita, Vauxhall Nova and Vauxhall Corsa.
Ford and Mazda generally have quite a number of crossovers take the Focus, Mazda 3, Mazda 5 and the Volva C30, C70 & S40 all share the same platform.
Nissan, Renault, Dacia and Lada all share common platforms as well the Nissan Micra, Renault Clio, Nissan Tiida, NP 200 and Dacia/Renault Sandero all share a common platform.
These "common platforms" take a lot of duplicate engineering effort out of the cars and really allow for more "common" components to be shared across makes/models. Less things to manufacture should in practice result in cheaper cars. What does tick me off is that the Renault Sandero we get in SA is just a badge engineered Dacia Sandero with absolutely NO changes to anything and the same engine (barring the gearbox, but including everything else) that goes in the Sandero goes straight into the Nissan NP200.



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