Hyundais as Dodges?

Mike Behnke · Nov 29, 2004

Was a time when Hyundai cars were basically built under licence from
Mitsu. The pony and excel engines and transmissions were exact copies
of Mitsu Colt and Galant engines.
They soon had enough of that crap and got their engine designs
elsewhere. Can't remember where the second generation engines came
from, but it was a european company. Currrently Hyundai/Kia are
designing their own engines, as is Daewoo (now GM owned).
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The Hyundai "Beta" engine was an in-house design. May have had some
euro influence, but vast majority of the engineering was Hyundai.

Mike Behnke · Nov 29, 2004

Joe said:

"I was jumping to conclusions, and one of them jumped back" as Al
Stewart once wrote. The one I was jumping to was that this meant the
next Neon would be a real live American car. You're right, it's much
more likely to be a Mitsu.
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Most likely to be built in Bellvidere, Ill., so 80% sure it will be an
"American" car, but will have some Mits and Hyundai engineering and
parts content as far as the design goes.

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