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Old 07-02-2013, 03:51 PM   #47
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I would consider this one to be one of the more successful actual collaborations (British sports car body and American motor engineering), although only in retrospect. At the time it was a financial failure, which is why they only lasted until 1967 here in the States...
The Sunbeam Tiger was successful, same concept, but does it qualify as a "collaboration" when it's buying someone else's car and (essentially) tuning it? Does RUF or Brabus or (old) Abarth count as a collaboration? That's basically all Shelby is, a factory supported tuner. If GM had given him the money I'm sure we could all go out and buy Shelby Camaros today.

Edit: Nobody mentioned Corolla/Nova
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