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Hey NeeMa, I see your from Switzerland and I know a lot of Mopars were made at the Schinznach plant not far from Baden - were/was your car made there? I notice the different badging and emblems.

Hi!

My 74' Valiant has the "Schinznach-Tag" but it was made in Canada. They stopped the assembly of Mopars in Schinznach in 1973. The import taxes for complete cars where radically reduced at that time and the assembly in Switzerland became too expensive.
From then the cars came complete and only some changes to adhere the swiss laws where made in Schinznach. For example the catalytic converters had to be removed because there was no unleaded fuel in europe at that time.

The whole "Montage Suisse" story started with the global economic crisis. To support domestic products the taxes for different imorted products where increased massive. Nowadays we would say "Switzerland first" ;-)
Complete cars have been one of these products. But not cars in parts so we startet to assemble them here.

GM has a similar Story with their assembly plant in Biel.