Talk:Automotive industry in Mexico

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"Mexican Constitution after one irregularity within the Carta Magna (and possible extension of payment by people who found that) was fixed modifying an article on May 2005. "? Trekphiler (talk) 16:32, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Numerous spelling and grammar errors noticed. As well as factual inaccuracies in the "history" section. Will update over winter vacation.-RL — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.66.170.104 (talk) 01:05, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

"Today No Circulation" is the best one. lol 201.141.62.99 (talk) 02:36, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

MXT section needs clean up
This section is not written appropriatly for an encylopedia - it uses a future voice, and is claiming that this vehicle would be avalible in 2008- in fact that has not come to pass. This section needs to be rewritten, if anything the company appears to have failed to meet their own deadlines. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.129.61.6 (talk) 17:08, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Factual errors in 1903-1960
The Olvera was actually most likely the first Mexican automobile and was built starting in either 1890 or 1903 depending on the source. — Preceding unsigned comment added by R latham914 (talk • contribs) 01:47, 7 December 2012 (UTC) This is not accurate, there were also English cars. Additionally, a prohibition from the Government (in accord with the USA), banned national car production and gave free-way to Ford Motor Co. So this article is BIASED. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:4C50:FFE4:0:200:5EFE:2E80:FFEA (talk) 09:55, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

Proposed mass-deletion
The article should be focussed on the automotive industry in Mexico, i.e. manufacturing, not sales. I propose to delete all info about cars sold in Mexico, but not manufactured in the country. --Biker Biker (talk) 08:05, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

I agree.

All of the other articles about the automotive industries of various countries talk about the cars that are actually manufactured there-- a "Swedish" car being a car manufactured by a company based in Sweden, an "Italian" car, by an Italian company-- it would be endless and pointless to try to describe all of the cars which can be *bought* in that place, since, that can be anything-- this type, that type.... this country, that country.

There are some car companies that are actually based in Mexico, right, and which make "Mexican" cars-- as opposed to "American", "British", etc. So, that's what this article should be about. It doesn't seem right to have one template for the articles about the auto industries of all those other countries, but a totally different one, for the Mexican one.

Also, the empty one-line introduction is a little weak, but, I guess that this article has bigger problems than that.

It's tempting to look for help from the Spanish article, but, actually, that might be where some of the problems are coming from, and this sorta, *super* non-nationalist thing of only talking about the foreign cars and not at all about the Mexicans cars *in the article for Mexican cars* which is really kinda weird and distracting and not helpful. None of the other articles are like this.... just talk about the ones from Mexico.

I mean, (I think I understand these Spanish words), the problem with the Spanish article begins right in that first sentence-- ".... and models available to be sold in the country...." That just makes no sense. You could buy.... any car.... somewhere in some large country.... that makes no sense at all....

In other words, yes, I agree with you. I'm not a car expert, so, I'll leave the actual deleting to you, since you suggested it.

But it would be a good idea to cut all of the dross out of this article, and then start again with what's left, yes.

Kwiataprilensis (talk) 04:24, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

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Were/are these cars sold in Mexico or just (legal US, South America and Europe) imports?
I know I don't have any photos of them and sorry for the length of this message, but I am a Mexican and I've seen a Toyota Rush and a Fiat Idea in a silver color one week ago and I think they were sold in Mexico for a while, in addition to a red first-gen Toyota Yaris (it has EU number plate size, not the one like the Canadian Echo, which is shorter), a 2005 Fiat Palio Adventure, a silver 2008 Fiat Linea in Sunday, and a red Honda Passport in Tuesday, in addition to a black 3-door Volkswagen Golf MkV (strange it doesn't carry a Rabbit nameplate and isn't even a GTI, yet has a US plate size) and numerous MkVI Golfs, even if the former only sold 170 copies of it in a Pirelli GTI version and the latter only a wagon and a GTI version. In another instance, I've seen a yellow MG TF once, and a maroon Pontiac G3 hatchback or Chevy Aveo, even if the latter is only sold as a sedan. Also I've seen few months ago a Hyundai Accent hatchback but the local Dodge Attitude is ONLY sold as a sedan, and a Hyundai Elantra.

In addition, I've seen a silver Toyota Celica months ago and some Chevrolet Astra sedans, and some OPC versions, though those were only sold in Chile and the Celica isn't even sold in Mexico.

Also a Chevrolet Epica (beige and aftermarket wheels) and a 1995 Honda Civic hatchback, even the Civic hatchback wasn't offered here (of course it was sold in Europe and to a lesser extent, USA and Canada).

If you think all of this is false feel free to remove this message or leave a reply below, and also leave a reply if all of this is true. 201.145.7.0 (talk) 01:51, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

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V8 engine ban
Between 1983 and the late 80s-early 90s, there was a ban on vehicles with V8 engines, prompting brands like General Motors, the Ford Motor Company, and Chrysler to offer more "fuel-efficient" cars with much smaller inline-4, inline-6, and V6 engines. Let's take the Mexican-market Dodge Magnum for example; it was based on the Chrysler M platform, which was shared with the Diplomat, and was equipped with a V8 engine. However, in 1984, it was replaced with the K platform, offered with a much smaller turbocharged inline-4 engine and based on the American market Dodge 400, becoming one of the first turbocharged cars to be offered in the market. There's barely any info about it, so some info might be incorrect. Syncro26152XL (talk) 15:36, 11 June 2024 (UTC)