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Toyota: Did you know??????????????????????????

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    Tegger®
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    "Philip®" <net> painstakingly pecked in
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    If you can believe it, there have actually been cars built that had
    FWD/transverse and RWD/longitudinal in the *same* unit body shell: Triumph
    Toledo/Dolomite.

    I have NO idea why British Leyland did this, nor do I know whether they
    actually made any money doing it.

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    TeGGeR®

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    FaisalCorollaS
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    hmmmmm interesting. Yeah, I know IS300 is a inline V6 with 215HP and
    3.0L engine. Neverthless, like Tegger said it is possible that they
    both were built out of the same mold. It was actually Toyota people
    who told me that they shared the same frame and platform.


    "Tegger®" <invalid> wrote in message news:<11.168.195>... 

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    Padre
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    Wrong. The corolla is based on the NCV platform, which includes the Matrix,
    RunX, and is a variant of the Celica platform.
    The IS300 shares it's platform with the Japanese Toyota Progres.



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    SoCalMike
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    "Padre" <com> wrote in message
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    Matrix, 

    and the pontiac vibe
     



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    Philip®
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    Faisal, there is no such thing as an "inline V6." The IS300 is
    an -inline 6- mounted longitudinally in the car .
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    ~~Philip

    "Never let school interfere
    with your education - Mark Twain"
     



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    Philip®
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    ALMOST -every- .... My dear deluded man, you need to get under a few
    cars. So say "Almost every vehcile Toyota builds shares its chassis
    ...." MEANS that you have to include cars with SUVs with pickups. Try
    again, ol chap.
    --

    ~~Philip

    "Never let school interfere
    with your education - Mark Twain"
     




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    Tegger®
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    Dan Gates <com> painstakingly pecked in
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    They made money with the Morris Marina, and lost money building just about
    everything else.

    If Leyland/Triumph had not been pushed by the government into the merger
    with BMC in 1968, Britain might have possibly still had a native auto
    company. Leyland actually *made* money from their commercial business.

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    TeGGeR®

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    IleneDover@mailcity.com
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    Actually what I said, my confused man, was 'Almost every vehicle
    Toyota builds shares it chassis with another Toyota. Far
    different than every Toyota shares the same chassis
    with every other. Perhaps you need to get under a few
    and look


    mike hunt



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    dizzy
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    On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 19:19:04 GMT, "Philip®" <net>
    wrote:
     

    Yeah, another stupid comment from Mike. Platform sharing is common,
    but there is no FWD car that shares a common platform with a RWD car.



     



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    Nick
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    SoCalMike <com> wrote in message
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    Correct! And that brings in another case of badgeswapping - Chevrolet
    Cavaliers badged Toyota for NZ, Toyota Matrix's badged Pontiac Vibe for
    USA... interestingly the Vibe almost has a seperate following because of the
    build difference - the strange errata are TOTALLY DIFFERENT errata to those
    of full GM Pontiacs.


    Nick.




 

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