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Re:Turkey unveils first fully domestically-produced car in $... by jacquesm on Friday December 27, 2019 @07:45PM (#21896218)
There is a reason why almost all British car companies went out of business.
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Re:Turkey unveils first fully domestically-produced car in $... by dsfyu404ed on Friday December 27, 2019 @11:30PM (#21897095)
Yeah, but using sheet sheet metal dies that were on death's doorstep wasn't it. Plenty of other companies did that back in the day.
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Re:Turkey unveils first fully domestically-produced car in $... by Animats on Friday December 27, 2019 @07:58PM (#21896273)
That was partly Lucas Electric, which somehow managed to dominate UK car electrics in the 1950s and 1960s using technology from the 1930s.
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Re:Turkey unveils first fully domestically-produced car in $... by jacquesm on Friday December 27, 2019 @09:42PM (#21896688)
Oh don't get me started. I rebuilt a bunch of Mini's from scratch.
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