The W124 is a mid-sized vehicle platform.

The companies have aligned their production cycles and will be sharing vehicle platforms and power trains.

The team has further reduced the overall weight of the solution, improved on the durability and standardized many components across multiple vehicle platforms.

The Audis are based on an entirely new vehicle platform that will be the basis for future models.

It also plans to reduce the number of vehicle platforms, which should significantly lower costs.

In addition, G.M. said it intended to consolidate its vehicle platforms and increase the number of common parts shared across model lines.

This program explored the use of commercial vehicle platforms as a fundamental building block of more rugged military vehicles.

The two companies share vehicle platforms and have begun joint design and development efforts but have separate sales operations.

A deal would create an enormous enterprise producing 15 million vehicles a year, and allow the three potential partners to cut costs by sharing vehicle platforms.

The design of the vehicle platform was led by Mark Reeves, with aid from his team at Morgan.