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Car manufacturing is bizarrely inefficient by legacy makers. Across a dozen models, they make bespoke parts for every model. Why does Ford need 12 different turn signal stalks, or door handles, or why does every single model need a different seat design?
It's unfortunate, but car enthusiasts and reviewers absolutely shit on manufacturers for sharing parts across models and brands. "Parts bin" is used as a pejorative. Even though it means cheaper and better spare parts availability.
That's the car media...which is the propaganda arm of the industry. They will wax on about vehicles, but never, ever, tell you if they are reliable or admit some brands just chronically make overpriced junk.
People are fucking stupid. Chevrolet made a very affordable sports car with the Corvette C6 that outperformed various euro douche brands, but people could not get over the steering wheel was used on a Chevy Cobalt.
When I hear parts bin I dont go straight to the negative I typically see it as creative like how some parts on some laborghinis share parts with completely different other cars (iirc one had headlights from a Nissan)
Lamborghini uses a lot of AUDI parts under the hood. They went broke making all their own parts.
"Why do auto makers need 12 different variants of the same part?"
To make getting the parts more difficult and more expensive so you buy an new car instead. They all do it. They don't want their cars to be serviced, just bought and replaced. ICE, Hybrid, EV, all the same. Auto makers want all cars to be disposable in as little time as possible.
You mean like gluing in battery cells into one solid block with the frame so that when a few cells die off the whole car needs to be junked?
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