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Car platform
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<p>A car platform is a shared set of common design, engineering, and production efforts, as well as major components, over a number of outwardly distinct models and even types of <a href="/facts/Car/I1IsH8IK">cars</a>, often from different, but somewhat related, <a href="/facts/Marque/hP6SnDWU">marques</a>. It is practiced in the <a href="/facts/Automotive_industry/fGFKUIlA">automotive industry</a> to reduce the costs associated with the development of products by basing those products on a smaller number of platforms. This further allows companies to create distinct models from a design perspective on similar underpinnings. A car platform is not to be confused with a <a href="/facts/Platform_chassis/v9YdFqAX">platform chassis</a>, although such a chassis can be part of an automobile's design platform, as noted below. </p>