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Originally Posted by NewYorkGuy
A real car manufacturer builds their own engines and body designs. Porsche. Ferrari. McLaren.
Shelby was/is a tuning company. Bodies from there. Engines from everywhere.
Well they do manufacture nice shiny csx plates. Machined in house or farmed out?
I guess those 50th annv Rebadged kirkham cobras will be "real cobra" in the year 2066.
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Actually,
It is not as you state above, being in the industry for many years a manufacturer does not necessarily do their own designing, engineering or manufacturing of their own vehicles or parts all of the time. Many manufacturers today utilize other companies to do these things. When Chevrolet was designing their C5 Corvette they turned to Porsche to design the torque tube and transaxle systems. When Porsche first opened his business doors it was as a engineering firm. many automotive manufacturing companies (Ford, Chevrolet, Porsche , Audi, etc) have other automotive manufacturing companies supply a base vehicle where the company then produces its own exterior and some drivetrain components and then they call it their own brand, the VW Tourag was a perfect example, it provided a base vehicle to Porsche and Audi for their respective SUV market. Porsche even utilized the VW VR6 engine in its base model Cayenne. This has been going on since the beginning of the automobile with chassis manufacturers supply chassis to coach builders to complete and call their own. This practice has taken place with normal production run vehicles all the way up to high end limited production specials.