Project: "A Body Jr" - 1975 Dodge Colt
Recap
3.0
2.6
1.6
were all foreign and readily available.
All were replaced by in house designed
2.2
2.5
3.3
3.8
that were american designs
The transaxles automatic and standard were all of american design and manufacture as well.
I get tired of people lumping ALL fwd chryslers as rebadged or mitsubishi based products when they were not !! I worked on them back then. I know !!! Had a guy even argue with me about my daytona shelby being made by mitsubishi. I said then why is the car made in st louis missouri then? So he back pedals and says the turbo is mitsubishi then. I was like umm ok then why does its data plate say Garrett AIResaerch made in USA. Then he mentions the trans being japanese to which i reply umm no the data plate on it says new process gear syracuse new york. Then i told him he was an uninformed tool.
Chassis werent jap either. Everything FWD at that time except the FWD dodge colt (captive import) was loosely derived from the K car platform which was a chrysler based in house design chrysler was working on when iacocca got there around 1980. The L body horizon and omni came out in 1978 however they were not japanese designs either. The horizon design was bought by chrysler from Talbot in europe. Prior to this, it was called the Talbot Horizon. It was tweaked for american tastes, and manufactured in the states, and sold with the VW audi 1.6 and 4 speed manual. It was also offered with an american made automatic transaxle until a more powerful 2.2 american engine could be offered. An american made new process 5 speed was also introduced at that time as well.
So as Paul Harvey says. Now you know the rest of the story.
I worked on chryslers in the 80s that is an incorrect statement. Yes chrysler used the mitsu MCA jet 2.6 on some of their cars and minivans specifically the fwd E class and minivans as a stopgap until their own 2.5 L could make production and replace it, they also used volkswagen audi 1.6L 4 cylinders in the omni horizon twins until their own 2.2 could make production and replace it. They used the mitsu 3.0 V6 until their own 3.3 and 3.8 L V6 could replace that engine too. Those engines were only stopgaps until their own designs could make production.Is not called neather cuz it is not a Chrysler product, the Dodge Colt is in fact a Mitsubishi Galant rebadged as a Dodge Colt to start theyr USA marketing program and then Mitsubishi take over theyr own brand in the States, while keeping theyr partnership with tha Chrysler group, i think they still have some business together but not as strong as before. Most FWD Chrysler product had drivetrains and chassis made by Mitsubishi!
Here is a picture of the Japanese version,
Recap
3.0
2.6
1.6
were all foreign and readily available.
All were replaced by in house designed
2.2
2.5
3.3
3.8
that were american designs
The transaxles automatic and standard were all of american design and manufacture as well.
I get tired of people lumping ALL fwd chryslers as rebadged or mitsubishi based products when they were not !! I worked on them back then. I know !!! Had a guy even argue with me about my daytona shelby being made by mitsubishi. I said then why is the car made in st louis missouri then? So he back pedals and says the turbo is mitsubishi then. I was like umm ok then why does its data plate say Garrett AIResaerch made in USA. Then he mentions the trans being japanese to which i reply umm no the data plate on it says new process gear syracuse new york. Then i told him he was an uninformed tool.
Chassis werent jap either. Everything FWD at that time except the FWD dodge colt (captive import) was loosely derived from the K car platform which was a chrysler based in house design chrysler was working on when iacocca got there around 1980. The L body horizon and omni came out in 1978 however they were not japanese designs either. The horizon design was bought by chrysler from Talbot in europe. Prior to this, it was called the Talbot Horizon. It was tweaked for american tastes, and manufactured in the states, and sold with the VW audi 1.6 and 4 speed manual. It was also offered with an american made automatic transaxle until a more powerful 2.2 american engine could be offered. An american made new process 5 speed was also introduced at that time as well.
So as Paul Harvey says. Now you know the rest of the story.