In automotive manufacturing, the move has been to re-use and taking advantage of large economies of scale to help cope with the demands of time to market, cost pressure, and stringent legislation while maintaining or increasing value to customers. Similar to platform strategy, the idea is to produce massive volumes to provide low cost and higher quality simultaneously.

The zetec program was one such program with more than 3.5 million engines produced, and timed just right to take advantage of today(the 5-10 year old sweet spot for an engine to be used in a conversion).