Toyota Replicating Volkswagen's MQB Architecture To Save Costs

Toyota Motor Corp will start selling in 2015 the first vehicles built under its parts-sharing and platform framework, the company said on Wednesday, as rivals led by Volkswagen pursue similar strategies to cut costs.

The framework, called the Toyota New Global Architecture, shares parts among vehicles using the same platform in order to save costs and manpower.

Initially, vehicles will share 20-30 percent of parts, a ratio Toyota wants to eventually expand to 70-80 percent, Executive Vice President Mitsuhisa Kato said.



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Agent009 - 3/27/2013 8:52:10 AM

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Now that didn't take too long!

jeffgall - 3/27/2013 8:57:23 AM

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Great. The consistency in the boring department will be stretched further.

USNA1999 - 3/27/2013 9:02:08 AM

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Where is sportbike? Wasn't he the one always saying, that all VWs and AUDIs were basically the same since they use this strategy? I guess the strategy works since TM wants to replicate it. I guess my LS will now share the same platform as the Corolla. LoL!!

Agent009 - 3/27/2013 9:46:40 AM

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Well that is gonna get worse now.