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Ford plans to trim global vehicle platforms from 15 to 9 by 2016: executive


    DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co expects to build about 99 percent of its vehicles on just nine global platforms by 2016, according to product development chief Raj Nair.

    The automaker now builds about 90 percent of its vehicles on 15 global platforms, Nair said Monday at a Ford briefing for analysts. Eventually, it plans to reduce the number of platforms to eight.

    (Reporting by Paul Lienert in Detroit; Editing by Meredith Mazzilli)