With a name like that, GM might have found her in a convent. Reminds me of a girl I once knew in Honduras, her name was Mary Theresa, don't recall her surname. Good times there in La Ceiba!
They don't rust like they used to, I had a '68 Plymouth Fury, had been driven in Minnesota, year round, until I took it to Oklahoma in '77. The unibody was rusted almost clear through, I don't know what was holding the torsion bars in place. I had a wreck in it, a very clean '64 Nova ran a red light and I t-boned it. The saying at work went something like, "once the cloud of rust cleared, all that was left was me, sitting in the drivers seat holding the steering wheel"! The fenders flapped in the breeze, but it ran pretty good with over 200K miles.
I once had a ‘78 Bronco like that, so much rust around the body bolts when I first got it, that I sometimes wondered how the body didn’t just shoot off the frame, under hard braking. The fenders were so far gone, I just cut off and replaced three of them… and later wished I had dine the fourth, while I was at it.
Saab operated at a loss when GM bought it and they couldnt change that. So in 2010 they sold it to Victor Muller, a millionaire who thought he could make his supercar brand Spyker profitable if he could purchase in bulk. But within a year, Saab went bankrupt, and Spyker went in and out of it over the years.
Yup, Italian companies like to have a mailbox in Holland so they can evade tax. Italians use it against us everytime we bail out their banks or sponsor their government and we tell them this wouldnt happen if Italian citizens payd the same tax rates as Northern Europeans...Told her to tell him that every time she drives it she wants wooden shoes and craves pancakes with maple syrup. I then had to explain to her that Stellantis is a Netherlands company and that her van was built in Canada.
Off course Benz began selling the Sprinter under Mercedes Benz name when they quit cooperation with Chrysler who sold them as Dodge, so when FiatChrysler started to sell the Fiat Ducato as Ram ProMaster, i guess they didnt want to help their now competitor...
Only in North America, where you got the gas derived Oldsmobile 5.7 diesel with barely more power than a 3 liter Mercedes OM617A of the same vintage but barely a third of its lifespan, and Cummins and Cat made cheap undersquare high speed V8s in the late 60s for medium truck buyers who rather rebuilt their gas engines every 100.000 miles than paying up front for a sleeved oversquare medium rpm NH or 3406 engine from the same manufacturers, yet with a transmission that was built for the torque of a lower rpm engine.
My 2005 Daimler-Dodge Ram pickup had a Getrag 6-speed manual transmission. But they've all been ZF 8HP70's for the last 10 years or more.
Cool story, but they forget the most important reason:Here’s a easy read on the advantages of an inline-6, as mostly compared to a V8
The Inline-6 Engine Is Making A Comeback: Here's Why - SlashGear
The V6 and V8 have dominated engine design for a long time now, but the inline-6 is making a comeback. Here's why it's happening and why it may be a good thing.www.slashgear.com
Theres also ZF Passau. Same company, but their construction and agriculture production location. I havent dealt with Friedrichshafen, only with Passau.That's "ZF Friedrichshafen AG"... so I'll give you one guess where they're based.
