Toyota Highlander and Subaru Tribeca to share platform?

Toyota Highlander and Subaru Tribeca to share platform?

The sharing, caring world grows ever so bigger, which makes sense in this day and age. Reports are rife that Toyota and Subaru is working towards using the same platform for their next-generation Highlander and Tribeca models.

Both vehicles are due for replacement sometime in 2014, and the grapevine reports that the boffins are looking at ways to seat the Subaru crossover on the Highlander’s platform.

Toyota Highlander and Subaru Tribeca to share platform?

Naturally, there’ll be some tricky corners to work around – the shared platform has to accomodate a number of different powertrain configurations, in this case a longitudinally-mounted boxer pot for the Tribeca and a transverse-mounted block for the Highlander, plus a hybrid system for the latter.

Nothing that can’t be surmounted, if there’s enough will. The way, of course, isn’t so soon, so there’s plenty of time to explore the will bit.

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Anthony Lim believes that nothing is better than a good smoke and a car with character, with good handling aspects being top of the prize heap. Having spent more than a decade and a half with an English tabloid daily never being able to grasp the meaning of brevity or being succinct, he wags his tail furiously at the idea of waffling - in greater detail - about cars and all their intrinsic peculiarities here.

 

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  • Grovers on Feb 09, 2011 at 1:02 pm

    Japanese really dunno how to make a good looking car. Look old and dated

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  • pelanggar lari on Feb 09, 2011 at 3:18 pm

    the amazing subaru has become boring like toyota

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  • Only 2 SUV model from Toyota which is nice Highlander or Kluger and the Venza.. others are just normal boring looking car.. But why Venza is not sold outside of US ?

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    • Paul Tan on Feb 09, 2011 at 7:26 pm

      Venza has a derivative called Mark X ZiO in Japan and I’ve seen it in
      Grey importers in Malaysia

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      • Oh really , but i rarely seen any Venza. Only from Toyota US website and Youtube i get to view it. But it is rather not popular mentioned from most famous automotive website.

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        • Paul Tan on Feb 09, 2011 at 11:33 pm

          I also have never seen a Venza on Malaysian roads, only seen it in the grey import dealership. They were selling the 3.5 liter version… perhaps road tax prohibitive.

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  • ^pomen_GTR^ on Feb 11, 2011 at 11:35 am

    noooooooooooooooooo……..

    bring back low down sedan like ride height suv like earlier model of forester pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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