Max Heim wrote:
> Hmmm, I don't think so... that would be like selling a Jaguar as an MG -- a
> serious case of down-marketing. Perhaps you are thinking of when the FIAT
> 124 Spyder was marketed under the Bertone brand, and I may have a vague
> recollection of the Alfa being marketed as a Pininfarina... Certainly they
> could have been sold at the same dealer, and I won't deny there were some
> desperate measures undertaken by the US importers.
Could have been it. They could have used the Fiat dealer network for all
of them. I do recall seeing them both in the same showrooms at various
dealers while I was trying to scrounge up parts for my 850 Spyder.
Since it was an 850 Spyder, you can imagine that I didn't have the money
to look closely at new cars :-)
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