highbridgeflyer
Member Since: 11 Jun 2006
Location: East Midlands
Posts: 160
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Fiat are taking over the finance from Ford Credit. The slippery slope has begun 
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 6th Nov 2008 12:37 pm |
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BrumLee
Member Since: 07 Mar 2008
Location: West Midlands
Posts: 1360
 
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shiny moose wrote:Well any suspect electrics will feel at home
Let's hope whoever takes over the electronic system builds one that is OBD compliant 
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| 6th Nov 2008 4:51 pm |
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DiscoStu
Member Since: 09 Apr 2006
Location: London
Posts: 11412
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I think Fiat are building the new Ka for Ford, too. All of the car manufacturers are banding together. Disco 5 HSE Lux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peyiqaJrmMU
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| 6th Nov 2008 5:40 pm |
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TallPaul
Member Since: 03 Jan 2008
Location: Near Reading
Posts: 1214
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Its the same platform on the ford ka (new one, as seen in Bond movie) and the Fiat 500, different engine and other bits, its a joint venture.
Its been like this for ages, my Alfa GT Diesel engine has a bottom half built by GM, its the same as the Saab 1.9 bottom end thats also a GM unit and I think its used in the Vauxhall Signum as well. The Alfa top half and head means mine goes better though 
They car manufacturers all started making these alliances a few years back to save on development costs of low volume models initially, but later with more mainstream models.
I think the exception is VW, who with Skoda, Seat, VW, Audi etc have enough models in their own group to share parts between! (Leon is a Golf GTI for example...)
EDIT: There is a woman on BBC2 at the moment saying that its the 6 month in a row where total car sales are down, the only thing up on last year is small fuel efficient city cars...
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| 6th Nov 2008 6:38 pm |
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Roel
Member Since: 16 Aug 2008
Location: home
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Quote:the only thing up on last year is small fuel efficient city cars...
The sales for the D3 V8 should be up then too. It might not be small but it gets through lots off fuel very efficient when I drive in the city.  Roel
1997 Camel Trophy Disco ex-P101JWK (traded it for a Britains 42101)
1984 90 TD5
2005 G4 Disco 3 BN55WPT
Also member of club MTR
and Club Faultmate
Interested in my 4x4 history see my website: www.mudmachine.webklik.nl
Sorry it's in Dutch and with google translator it gets funny.
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| 6th Nov 2008 7:47 pm |
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