Why I love Asian cars. Sent from my iPhone
> On Jan 31, 2014, at 3:53 AM, "arche...@embarqmail.com" > <arche...@embarqmail.com> wrote: > > Toyotas early engines were copies of the famous postwar Pugeot engine, > arguably the best engine produced during the postwar era. You could put an > early Toyota engine side by side with a Pugeot (504?) engine and barely tell > them apart. The Russians also copied the Pugeot engine and used them in > their Moskva taxi's; claiming to get 150,000 miles between rebuilds. > Gerry > >> On 1/30/2014 3:46 PM, OK Don wrote: >> The first Datsuns in the US were mechanically MG knock-offs. The Datsun >> 1600 looked just like an MGA with telescopic shocks instead of lever >> actuated. The Subaru was (and still is) a copy of a 1950's German car - >> front wheel, drive water cooled, horizontally opposed engine. Ah - just >> remembered, it was the Goliath. I don't know what the Toyotas are copied >> from . . . >> >> >>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Gary Hurst <jabbahur...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> it's common for car companies to use someone else's >>> established idea. for example, if memory serves me, the first kia's in the >>> USA were mazda 323 knockoffs. > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
