There are no small savings! Certain weakly distributed sports cars had no choice but to borrow taillights from much more widely used general models. Like a Venturi using optics from BMW 3 Series E21. Panorama
Produced in very small series, some cars, often exclusive sports cars, recover taillights from models of larger distribution. Let us immediately cite the example of the Jaguar XJ220 Supercar assembled in 1992 and 1994 to only 281 units. Too low a volume to make the design and then manufacture profitable with a specialized equipment manufacturer of a rear optical unit. Thus, it was his compatriot, the second generation Rover 200 (internal code XW or R8) assembled from 1989 to 1995 which provided him with his lights. An economic logic and an aesthetic compromise.
In automobile production across the Channel, there is no shortage of examples: the Noble M500 who did not hesitate to steal the high-tech lights of a vehicle belonging to a completely different genre since it is the second generation Citroën C4 Picasso minivan.
A supercar with coach lights!
In France, this recipe is far from new, as evidenced by The original Alpine A110 with Renault 8 taillights. Its replacement, the Alpine A310, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, has followed the same trend, benefiting from Renault 12 lights. Sometimes, the loan is really very far away, like the McLaren F1 supercar which inherits outright. rear optics of a Dutch coach, the Bova Futura.
Sometimes, the difference in standing between the two vehicles is very important like the one separating the Aston Martin DB7 from the Mazda 323F. Yet this responds to an industrial logic since at the time, Aston Martin was owned by the Ford group to which the Japanese manufacturer Mazda was also closely linked. Another singularity, the Maserati Kyalami taking advantage of the lights of the Citroën SM, which had an engine … Maserati, the circle is closed.
TO READ. Citroën SM (1972). His majesty in the ranks of the BIS
