Quote Originally Posted by mike01 View Post
there is already something like this actually.. norkis has made good designs and fabrications by making simple small cars who's external are purely their own design..

the only problem with norkis is their Quality Assurance.. they need to put more into this..wag naman yung pinag dikit dikit lang ng epoxy yung mga pyesa (as what one buyer mentioned)..

what the philippines need is not a design of the exterior or the chassis but our own proudly philippine made ENGINE..

parang sarao din kalalabasan nito.. you can't export a car whose engine is not our own..
I'd like to correct this.

Norkis's cars are not "purely their own design". The Privacy and Legacy are rebadged Daihatsu Miras. The only change they had to make was to scoop out the rear end of the Mira to make the Legacy pick-up.

The M, on the other hand, is a Micra. No body work done.

It's perfectly acceptable for small manufacturers to buy engines from more established ones. That's how Hyundai and Kia got started. That's how Proton got started.

It's only small manufacturers who sell high priced (very high priced, I might add) motor vehicles to the rich who have the money to build their own engines (say, Ferrari and Porsche)... but even the niche manufacturers of exotics resort to buying engines from BMW, Audi and Mercedes. (Wiesmann & Mclaren, Spyker & Gumpert, Pagani)

The idea with the PhUV is not to reinvent the wheel, but rather to make a commercially competitive vehicle with off-the-shelf parts which can sell for a very good price.

Heck, there are lots of backyard engineers who can build their own engine. But can they make it commercially competitive and emissions compliant on a budget as small as we're looking at? No.