The Unholy Alliance? Subaru Tribeca To Be Based On Toyota Highlander Platform

Toyota is studying how to more closely converge its products with Subaru, and might share its next-generation Highlander midsize crossover platform with the Tribeca. The two have similar dimensions, notes a source familiar with the tie-in.

As always with Subaru, the sticking point is how to share a platform that would use a longitudinally mounted boxer engine, in the case of the Tribeca, with a transverse-mounted engine, as in the Highlander. The platform also will have to accommodate a hybrid version of the Highlander, and it's a good bet the system would be adapted to the pancake-engine Tribeca.

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wins555 - 1/4/2011 12:33:02 AM

+5 Boost

Why is it an unholy alliance?????????? Its win win for both companies!

kpaxx - 1/4/2011 8:35:27 AM

-6 Boost

Starting to lose respect for Subaru. I always liked Subs, but with an entanglement with toyota this can only mean that will lose there focus.

uaw_lax - 1/4/2011 9:05:24 AM

+4 Boost

I see no problem with sharing components and ideals with another company, the most successful companies do this and save tons of cash and the average consumer has no ideal or just don't know.