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RJ Scaringe: Companies Are Copying Tesla Too Much
(cleantechnica.com)
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In the same way that a Dodge Stealth and a Mitsubishi 3000GT are the same car. Common platform, kitted out differently. The Lexus is the same platform too. Fun fact: The Saab 9-2x is a WRX in disguise!
It's less that it's common platform and more that it's literally Toyota designed and built in Toyota factories.
Similarly, the Toyota GR86 is a Subaru with a Toyota badge. It's built on a Subaru platform out of Subaru parts and every single one of them is built in a Subaru factory in Gunma, Japan. Toyota had more design input into the twins, but it'd still be amusing for someone to comment that the 86 "looks like any other Toyota" because the thing is a Subaru parts bin car.