McgeesAlice808 posted...
Nobody would call a car completely inspired by and built similar to a Japanese car but made by an American company a Japanese car.
Do you consider MINIs to be British or German? They are inspired by an unquestionably British car, festooned in Union Jacks, yet they are owned by BMW (and have many BMW components), but then most are built in UK. It's weird.
There's also more obvious badge engineering, where (for example) the Dodge Sprinter has an American brand (okay, that brand is owned by an American/Italian/French company), but is actually a German design.