Paul Wilbur, a product planner who worked with Castaing on the cab-forward LH cars — the Chrysler Concorde, Eagle Vision and Dodge Intrepid — that debuted in 1993, said the platform team approach changed everything. “The whole company was split from chimneys and silos into platform teams, and it was really revolutionary,” said Wilbur.
“I remember very vividly talking about line rates with manufacturing guys and color choices and how many colors we should have. These were discussions that typically