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New Lightweight, Global Architectures Make Platform Sharing A Positive At General Motors

Platform sharing has been around since some of the earliest days of automobiles. Different vehicles used a common architecture, spawning a plethora of variants. However, General Motors got lazy, admittedly, and platform sharing quickly turned into “badge engineering.”

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