Fuzzy Dunlop
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Have the Hillman (Chrysler) Avenger be as successful as the Ford Escort
Much obliged!
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Have the Hillman (Chrysler) Avenger be as successful as the Ford Escort
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Have the Hillman (Chrysler) Avenger be as successful as the Ford Escort
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ialociN_Nicolai_11x2_1995
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Particularly, as I am from somewhere overseas (especially as being a non-North American), I think one of the possible [yet counterfactual] ways for the Rootes Group, aka Chrysler Europe, to have its Avenger small family car gain more success was to let the former pushed itself into bankruptcy in order to merge [Rootes/Chrysler Europe] with either Toyota or Nissan - especially this would had helped these two Asian (Japanese) car manufacturers to establish a foothold in the European market (especially in an ATL when Toyota already bought and drove Honda to bankruptcy for example).
Anyway, there were such outcomes that the Hillman Avenger would had made itself winning by remedying its technological elements coming from the ways of either of those said two Japanese marques, namely Toyota or Nissan:
Anyway, there were such outcomes that the Hillman Avenger would had made itself winning by remedying its technological elements coming from the ways of either of those said two Japanese marques, namely Toyota or Nissan:
- A counterfactual of Rootes benefiting its Avenger from Toyota's parts bin meant the former would recommend its aforementioned small family car to be equipped with the latter's T inline-four engine familywhile being mated with an automatic transmission (AT), which was also utilised in the likes of the Corolla for instance.
- Also, if the Avenger and a number of Rootes vehicles shared many engineering components with those coming from Toyota's cars, except for underpinnings/floorpans/body stampings, therefore with the earning of a reputation for reliability meant that Toyota-powered Rootes Group cars would had became more commercially successful than in their previous [OTL] sales outings.
- If Rootes [ATL/counterfactually] went bankrupt and immediately merged with Nissan instead of Toyota, as which the latter in turn counterfactually took over a declining British Leyland (BL), then the likes of the Avenger instead shared a piece of cake, referring to mechanicals, with Nissan as a result of the said merger.
- Interestingly, an Avenger equipped with a combination between the inline four configuration of Nissan's L engine and an AT meant this would be the same way the former did with Toyota - as mentioned above. But with the reliability problems plaguing the [Nissan] L-series engine meant this suggested Nissan to perform a counterfactual acquisition of Mitsubishi Motors instead, especially with the US-based division of Chrysler taking such control in the latter...
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Had a 1969 sunbeam arrow 4dr sdn 1725cc automatic it was one of the best vehicles I ever had for my wife. i was in California at the time .
she out run a chp mustang going up the grapevine, the officer could not believe it.
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she out run a chp mustang going up the grapevine, the officer could not believe it.
the only problem you had to understand British automobiles to work on it successfully,
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marathag
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That dooms it then.
VW Beetles needed a lot of maintenance, but was pretty straight forward.
Weber, SU and then Zenith carbs? You needed guys who knew what they were doing with them
My Father was one of those guys, he ran a Carburation Department in a small engineering works. The department, did have Sun analysers, but that was for the younger guys, he didn't use them - knew more than the machine. Remember him telling me of a Jaguar our dentist brought in,, complained of a 'flat spot when doing (if memory serves) at 90 mph. This at a time when there were no motorways in South Wales. Made his adjustments moved the 'flat spot' to 105 mph - tested it on the Cowbridge by-pass - dual-carriageway!
Quite ironic really as our family cars needed a following wind to go faster!!
Used to work in a main dealership for Chrysler cars - which quickly became Peugeots/Talbots. Not one I ever had the opportunity to drive. It was replaced by the Chrysler/Talbot Horizon - European Car of the Year. - started the trend to hatchbacks. But then the Talbot brand was phased out, and the Peugeot '300' series carried on the small family car category e.g. 309, 306, 307, 308 (God knows why the 309 followed the earlier 305!!