Odd tie-ins?
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Eighteeteewhy

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197 months

Monday 23rd June 2014
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Seat and Porsche



Any others?...



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TheEnd

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217 months

Monday 23rd June 2014
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The Vanos (cam timing) units on BMW E36 M3's were made by Rolls Royce, before BMW bought the name.

JDMDrifter

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194 months

Monday 23rd June 2014
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Didn't lotus do some chassis work on a few proton super minis?

AC43

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237 months

Monday 23rd June 2014
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Harley Davidson and Ford. Just wrong.

Fiat and that bike manufacturer. Eh?

VW and their rock band limited editions - Genesis? The Stones? WTF?!?

Puddenchucker

5,841 posts

247 months

Monday 23rd June 2014
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Lotus and Talbot


Pebbles167

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181 months

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Porsche also did the VVT on the later D9 peugeot 3.0 V6 engine. Thought this was quite surprising.

Pickled

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172 months

Monday 23rd June 2014
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Alfa and Nissan, styling by Nissan electrics by Alfa

hornetrider

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234 months

Monday 23rd June 2014
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Speaking of Lotus...


TheEnd

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Pebbles167

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181 months

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Pickled said:
Alfa and Nissan, styling by Nissan electrics by Alfa
Sounds like a disaster!

Pickled

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Pebbles167 said:
Sounds like a disaster!
It was!

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa_Romeo_Arna

Puddenchucker

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Pebbles167 said:
Pickled said:
Alfa and Nissan, styling by Nissan electrics by Alfa
Sounds like a disaster!
It was. Google 'Alfa Arna'

Pebbles167

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181 months

Monday 23rd June 2014
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Haha oh dear! Basically a totally unreliable Micra.

Everyday is a learning day on PH hehe

morgrp

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227 months

Monday 23rd June 2014
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Porsche like to get their fingers in lots of pies - this one takes some beating:

The Vaz-Porsche (or Lada as we know and love them) 2103




Basically, Porsche were tasked with tarting up the Lada 2103 - Amazingly the soviets didn't accept the concept Porsche produced and restyled it themselves - and the rest as they say is consigned to the history books. Love that 928 style steering wheel though!

Interestingly, the two joined forces again some years later to produce this Lada Samara T3 Paris-Dakar - Basically a very fabulous Porsche 959 clad in a very stty Lada Samara body:


Martin4x4

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161 months

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JDMDrifter said:
Didn't lotus do some chassis work on a few proton super minis?
Not so odd, Lotus are owned by Proton.

Lotus re-engineered the Satria GTI in keeping with the old Lotus Cortina, Sunbeam and Carlton to be right little pocket rocket.

I used to own one.




s m

24,471 posts

232 months

Monday 23rd June 2014
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Renault, Hartge and Irmscher - Safrane Biturbo