sometimes I wonder....

floivanus said

Buick, olds and pontiac (commonly shortened to BOP) had one bellhousing pattern, and chevy has a different one. There's also a BOP specific rear end and a chevy rear, and a BOP specific carburetor, and a chevy one, etc etc. but that's referencing different companies doing different things

Different engines was done as a seperate identity thing, like not producing a mopar with a ford motor they werent cranking out pontiac tempests with small block chevies.

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We were discussing efficiency in mass production.

While Mopar and fomoco shared powertrains, gm held on to different engine families for it's different divisions,

I argue that this is a greater sin against corporate efficiency than almost any other that we can dredge up.

...and from the conglomerate that is "famous" for "standardization", nonetheless.

They did eventually "correct" it...in the 1980's.

Corporate efficiency won out over buick torque and Pontiac head design.
...and saturn innovation.

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I just realized you were suggesting gm engine design differences were akin to ford motors in Mopars.

gm was one corporation.

ford was a separate corp.

Chrysler was another separate corp.

Not at all the same.