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From: "George Lendich" <lendich@optusnet.com.au>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
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Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Nice rotary engine history page
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 08:47:36 +1000
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The Mercury Tracer must also be the Ford Laser, as it is a rebadged Mazda
323 - The wife still has her 1982 model.
George (down under)
.
>    Drilling down was interesting too.  Followed a link on "Badge
> Engineering", which talks about how cooperative agreements
> between automakers (e.g. Ford and Mazda) lead to some interesting
> rebranding of models for sale in selected markets.
>
>    I knew, from buying our daughter a car 12 years ago that the Mercury
> Tracer is actually Mazda 323; and the my Mercury Villager fleet vehicle
> was actually a Nissan Quest.  However, I found it quite interesting
> that, in the U.S., the Saab 9-2x is actually a Subaru Impreza.
>
>    What's next?  Will I find out that the Long-EZ was actually
> "SS 0.7"?   ;)
>
> Dale R.
>
> > From: "Russell Duffy" <13brv3@bellsouth.net>
> > Date: 2005/07/02 Sat PM 01:08:59 EDT
> > To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
> > Subject: [FlyRotary] Nice rotary engine history page
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I stumbled across this page today, which seems like a pretty complete
> > history.
> >
> > http://www.answers.com/topic/mazda-wankel-engine
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Rusty (waiting for the mailman to deliver auto tune today)
> >
> >
>
>
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