Car Companies That Borrow Parts From Other Companies?

bravenrace wrote: In reply to Adrian_Thompson: We're not over there, you're over here...

Then call it a station wagon

Ditchdigger wrote:

bravenrace wrote: In reply to Adrian_Thompson: We're not over there, you're over here...

Then call it a station wagon

I can live with that, my head will survive. I'm not the one that brought that stupid description into this thread

OK, back to the subject, borrowing parts from other manufacturers. What about Kia?, they borrowed a whole car from Lotus I bring you the Kia Elan

Ditchdigger wrote:

bravenrace wrote: In reply to Adrian_Thompson: We're not over there, you're over here...

Then call it a station wagon

I didn't call it anything. So there!

In reply to Adrian_Thompson:

According to Wikipedia, the term originated with the Brits, so you own it, dude. Unless you're not British. I'm sure they'll be some sematical reason why that's not correct either. Either way, if you don't like what we do here, you know what you can do.

Woody wrote: Not sure...are Imps cool?

Very much so.

If it hadn't been for manufacturing issues and the fact that BL was already so heavily invested in the racing development of the mini it was intended to supplant, we would have seen the imp with more trophies than the mini.

In reply to Ditchdigger:

It may BE cool (or not), but I personally don't think it looks cool.

In reply to bravenrace:

On that we are free to disagree.

Does the "californian" roof line improve it for you?

Adrian_Thompson wrote:

Ditchdigger wrote:

bravenrace wrote: In reply to Adrian_Thompson: We're not over there, you're over here...

Then call it a station wagon

I can live with that, my head will survive. I'm not the one that brought that stupid description into this thread OK, back to the subject, borrowing parts from other manufacturers. What about Kia?, they borrowed a whole car from Lotus I bring you the Kia Elan

I brought that stupid description into this thread because it was the description used by the Scottish author from the British car magazine to describe the British car.

http://www.roosengineering.ch/docs_/archiv/presseartikel/Octane_37_LagondaShootingBrake.pdf

Hell, even the guy who BUILT the damn thing called it a shooting brake. Hell, they had a whole celebration about Aston Martin shooting brakes: http://www.roosengineering.ch/amh/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=84:shooting-brake-show-verkehrshaus-luzern&catid=36&Itemid=273&lang=en

And wait, what about Aston Martin themselves? What would they define as a shooting brake?

https://www.astonmartin.com/en/heritage/past-models/db5

"A small number of DB5s were built as ‘shooting brakes’, a sportsman’s interpretation of a modern ‘estate’ car, by coachbuilder Harold Radford."

Yup, just a bunch of wannabee Americans those Aston Martin guys.

In reply to Ditchdigger:

No.

I thought that in Limey speak, a 2 door wagon was a shooting brake, and a 4 door wagon was an estate car.

My stupid squeaky motor mount in my 3 was made by FoMoCo. Pretty much all the PITA parts on the Mazda 3 are sourced from Ford.

My Jag XJS had a GM transmission and air conditioning.