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Originally Posted by Blacdout96
Jaguar and Landrover - owned by the Indian car company Tata
Mini - Owned by BMW
Mclaren - under Mercedes thumb
Rolls Royce - a Subsidiery of BMW
Lotus - has to use engines from other sources such as Toyota
Bentley - Owned by Volkswagen
Aston Martin - owned by that damn yankee car company, Ford
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Lotus actually uses GM's Ecotec in Europe and Toyota's 1.8 in America. The Lotus Exige and the old Vauxhaul VXR220 as well as Opel Speedster were the same car. The Speedster was replaced by the front engined, RWD, Saturn Sky aka now the Opel GT.
Opel Speedster.
What would be funny is if Pontiac brought this over years ago as the 2nd generation Fiero. If GM worked globally then like they do now, its very easy to see that it could have been.
Lotus is owned by a small Mylasian automotive firm I belive. Lotus was owned by GM at some point.
Aston Martain is owend by its race team, Pro Drive and some other investors.
Land Rover and Jag are both owned by Tata motors.
Ford had a big sell off to gain some capitial.