• Cornpop@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Ford owned a controlling share of Mazda during the L series design, it was developed together by ford and Mazda. It’s not just the heads, everything is different except the cylinder blocks lineage. No interchangeable parts.

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      6 months ago

      Also I was talking post COVID cars, since that’s what time we’re in. 2020+ American cars are not as good as they used to be.

      Sure Ford co developed the engine, and it wasn’t put in American Ford models outside of the focus until 5 years after it’s development. But a lot of the research and design was mazda