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Old 03-22-2021, 01:49 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by M_a_t_t View Post
The ad must have been deleted or something the link doesn't work for me, but all metros had suzuki engines. They are badge engineered suzuki's for GM.
I am aware...but GM designed the head in the '89+'s, and then started making the engines themselves in the 90s, if not earlier, as well as the cars themselves...by the time of the one in that ad, even the design of the car was all-GM; they never got the late model style that we have in Japan.

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