19th March 2016, 11:53 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Route 66
Posts: 10,192
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Originally Posted by kronckew
a parallel allegorical anecdote:
renault (french) sells dacia (romanian) autos and owns the company, and they use the same 1500cc dci turbo-diesel engine in the renault and dacia. oddly the same engine is also used in some other well known brand of cars from other nations...
is my dacia stepway lauriate 1.5 litre dci french or romanian? or as they are now part of europe, is it just european? it's right hand drive, meets the british regulations, not the european union ones, so is it british?
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Exactly!!! 
So I have a '50 Ford and I drop in a Chevy 350............is my car still a Ford or is it a Chevy with a Ford body?
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