[Healeys] FW: FWIW

[Oudesluys]

Chris,

I am afraid missing the point is yours.
I just pointed out that there is no serious British car manufacturer at 
present, all are small volume and/or foreign owned, e.g. Jaguar and Land 
Rover are Indian owned by Tata and anyway are sold in fairly small 
numbers in Europe because of reliability issues.
Up to the 60's the UK produced a great number of popular and for the 
period good cars, at least not worse than others, which sold well on the 
Continent, e.g. BMC (Austin, Morris, Wolseley, Triumph, Rover, Jaguar 
etc.), Vauxhall, Rootes (Sunbeam, Hillman, Humber, Singer). It all went 
terribly wrong in the late 60's and '70's, largely due to the terrible 
quality/reliability of especially BMC cars, but Ford UK, Vauxhall, 
Rootes not lagging far behind.
Thus UK specced Fords are now made elsewhere, Vauxhalls are rebadged 
Opels, Rootes became Talbot which ended up I think under Peugeot and 
disappeared.
The Chevrolets sold in EU are mainly badge engineered Deawoo products, 
made in Korea or perhaps Indonesia/India etc. as well these days. US 
Chevrolets are rarely seen here.
Subaru is of course a Japanese make however for the USA market a number 
of models are assembled in the US, which apparently are less reliable.

""a Korean Corvette Mustang V8 convertible made by Subaru in the good old US of A"

might be less impossible than you think. At present Toyota is producing 
the Toyota Aigo, Peugeot 107 and Citroen C1 (all practically identical) 
in Polen.  The Fiat Panda, Fiat 500, Ford Focus, small Mazda and I think 
one or two others have the same platform and are produced from Polen to 
probably Brazil. And there are many other examples.

Cheers,
Kees



Op 14-8-2012 13:01, Chris Dimmock schreef:
> Geez Kees,
> You missed the point. Totally.
> Seriously.
> If your memory of the British car industry, and European car industry means you can't spell Sunbeam, and innovation, then I'm lost at your comments.
>
> Or you are just taking the piss? Or ??
> I'm confused? So Chevrolet is Korean?? Subaru is American????
> Wow. I got the location of Texas wrong on this list once... So I'll give you the benefit of the doubt...
> BMC produced 50% of England's cars in the early late 1960's and early 1970's   And it exported to the commonwealth.
> Who was in the top 3 car manufacturing countries supplying the Australian market in the early 1960's?
> You tell me me. It wasn't French, Swedish, Italian, or Danish. And it wasn't Japanese. Or Korean. Or Yugoslavian. Not Russian.
> I'll give you a hint...  This is a British car list...
> Now England is undergoing a revival.
> I'm lost as to what your point is.
> Maybe I should just buy a Korean Corvette Mustang V8 convertible made by Subaru in the good old US of A?
> Seriously
> Chris.
>
> Sent from my iPhone