FLY PLEASE READ THIS POST TO VERIFY THAT FORD AND MAZDA USE EACH OTHERS PARTS AND PAY UP BISH!
3 or Fit?
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FLY PLEASE READ THIS POST TO VERIFY THAT FORD AND MAZDA USE EACH OTHERS PARTS AND PAY UP BISH!
The Focus is using an old Protege-type platform. Supposedly the 2008 model will be using the 2003 Mazda3 platform (just like the volvo s40). The Mazda3 is more Mazda than Ford. the 2.3L engine is more Mazda than Ford. It is the 2.0L engine only available in the sedan that is Ford related.
This is like beeeerad's thug talk or Pandora's attempts at mocking people. It disturbs me. It disturbs me that I know what you are talking about, first off, and it disturbs me that you are using it.
Nope not built the same way, but my Ford Probe had a Mazda engine pieces or intake... I can't remember.
You got the same email??Are you sure some of the Mazdas and Fords aren't the exact same cars?
Tribute/Escape
B-Series Truck/Ranger
CX-7 (or 9)/Edge
They seem to be the same cars with different logos. Are they really made with different parts? Because that would be pretty dumb.
Tribute/Escape
B-Series Truck/Ranger
CX-7 (or 9)/Edge
They seem to be the same cars with different logos. Are they really made with different parts? Because that would be pretty dumb.
Dharma1521
Soooo do I look as young as I look?
I have no clue where that one was from. I've gotten a couple of them that she emailed me but now I am perplexed.
It seems to be a mixture of parts. Some Ford, some Mazda.
There seems to be a lot of car companies out there that do the same.
It's about who makes them and the quality assurances they place in said factories.
Not necessarily. I mean my Protege uses a Ford transmission. It will fail. Whether a Japanese worker who take pride in their work or some overpaid whiny bitch on a US assembly line puts it in. Since my car was Japanese, however, the shitty transmission was just screwed in correctly and tightly, that's all.
stock vs. modded is never a legitimate argument and you know better
also, you can throw a good bit, if not all, your new car warranty right out the window if you mod a car like that...generally not wise unless you have a lot of spare change laying about...can the stock internals handle an s/c without blowing shit up? I doubt you get forged internals on a fit and that means catastrophic engine failure if you give it any sort of decent boost
Syrup Beaver
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Yep, many GM cars are built off of an Opel chassis.
I think the only things left that are pure Ford US are the full sized trucks/SUV's and Crown Vic-based vehicles?
opel and holden from australia for gm...the gto is a holden monaro rebadged with a pontiac front end...we are about to get the holden commodore too which will be rebadged as the pontiac g8 and given the pontiac front end
every company shares platforms with it's other divisions
Syrup Beaver
pants log
But Jaguar has had better reliability, particularly now that that awful V6 is gone.
Though I do love the old Jag V12
Though I do love the old Jag V12
Syrup Beaver
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stock vs. modded is never a legitimate argument and you know better
also, you can throw a good bit, if not all, your new car warranty right out the window if you mod a car like that...generally not wise unless you have a lot of spare change laying about...can the stock internals handle an s/c without blowing shit up? I doubt you get forged internals on a fit and that means catastrophic engine failure if you give it any sort of decent boost
hehe, yeah I know. I was just saying, though. also from the reviews I have read, the handling on the fit is pretty damn good and the ride is very good, so that is a tough choice between that and the mazda