Automotive WI - BMC Turkey follows Anadol in building cars

Founded in 1964 in partnership with the UK's British Motor Corporation, BMC (Turkey) today is one of the largest commercial vehicle manufacturers in the country. Its products include buses, trucks, and military vehicles.

What-If BMC (Turkey) followed the example of Anadol in becoming one of the first domestic mass-production passenger vehicle manufacturers in Turkey?

Essentially like Anadol, ATL BMC Turkey would initially build fiberglass Minis, 1100/1300s and possibly even 1800/2200s akin to OTL Chile (Mini, 1100/1300) and Venezuela albeit on a much larger scale (given the size of the market) before pursuing their own direction*, with the potential for such cars to be sent as kits to be assembled in other countries.

*- Dependent on whether BL still forms in this TL, otherwise a surviving BMC scenario potentially lays the groundwork for BMC Turkey to eventually become the ATL BMC analogue of OTL Ford Otosan.
 
It's certainly an interesting idea. Brings up the question would Reliant Motors be more likely to work with this alternate-BMC Turkey or would BMC UK's models, and their being domestic competitors, crowd out any potential collaboration? As I'm sure you know Reliant created the FW11, which with further development became Citroën's BX, so it could have some interesting knock-on effects – even if Reliant stay with Otosan BMC's presence might encourage them to proceed with it.
 
Regarding Reliant it depends on whether they remain tied to Ford as was the case in OTL (along with Anadol) or in a scenario where BL never came to be, end up becoming more intertwined with Leyland via Triumph (due to Reliant acquiring Bond Cars in OTL to continue the latter's existing arrangements with Triumph to allow Reliants / Bonds to be sold at Triumph dealership networks, which would mean that any new cars would have to be largely based on Triumph / Leyland components). Either way it seems Anadol would remain tied to Ford, as the FWD11 prototype was proposed to be powered by a range of Ford engines from a 1.3-litre to a 2.8-litre V6 at one point had it reached production.

How the car-making division of BMC Turkey builds upon the potential success of the fiberglass Mini, 1100/1300 and 1800/2200 would be interesting. Perhaps they create a more conventional direct Anadol rival via an Escort-sized Fiberglass equivalent of the OTL Morris Marina (via re-skinned Minor) or produce fiberglass bodied equivalents of the Clubman (albeit in updated 4-door three-box saloon bodystyle on 84-inch wheelbase), Austin Apache (albeit with ATL 1500-1750cc+ E-Series) and Austin Kimberley X6 (ATL 2000-2400cc 4/6-cylinder engines), prior to eventually building various models akin to OTL Ford Otosan.
 
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