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It’s not aberrant for automakers to collaborate. Toyota and Nissan did to aftermath the Altima Hybrid. Nissan adopted the Toyota’s Synergy Drive Technology that’s begin on the Toyota Camry Amalgam through a licensing agreement..

It looks like Toyota and Subaru will do something similar. The Toyota Highlander and the Subaru Tribeca will allotment the aforementioned platform. “According to Motor Trend, the two companies are currently exploring means to board platforms, and the bake-apple of that analysis may actual able-bodied be the next Tribeca,” Autoblog explains. “MT is advertisement that engineers are currently searching for means to abject the next-generation Subaru crossover on the basic of the Toyota Highlander. Both models are slated for backup in 2014, and there’s some adumbration that the two cars will allotment added than a few bolts if they debut.”

Converging articles is added complicated than administration a licensing agreement. Motor Trend explains that the belvedere acquire to fit three altered models. “As consistently with Subaru, the afraid point is how to allotment a belvedere that would use a longitudinally army boxer engine, in the case of the Tribeca, with a transverse-mounted engine, as in the Highlander. The belvedere aswell will acquire to board a amalgam adaptation of the Highlander, and it’s a acceptable bet the arrangement would be acclimatized to the pancake-engine Tribeca.”

This change, however, won’t action overnight. “The all-new Highlander isn’t accepted until 2014,” says Left Lane News, “so both CUVs will acquire to backpack on in their accepted forms for a few added years.” We’ll accumulate you acquaint as added updates emerge.

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