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Now that the motor industry is global, I wonder if the US brands make cars with metric fastenings now?
Does anyone know?
Paul
Costock, UK
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The Ford Cyclone engine and German designed Ford MT82 gearbox in my Roadster both use metric fittings. Ford have built such for nearly twenty years. The 3 litre Duratec V6 used in the first Roadsters, being developed by Porsche and Cosworth, not surprisingly also used metric fittings when adopted by Ford in 1996. In fact the switch from SAE to metric fittings in mainstream US car brands started as early as 1973! It took Morgan another 46 years before they fully adopted metric fittings throughout their cars though 
Richard
2018 Roadster 3.7
1966 Land Rover S2a 88
2024 Royal Enfield Guerrilla 450
1945 Guzzi Airone
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Any of my US cars for the last 30 years at least have metric fittings. Why the company does not switch to the full metric system I'll never know.
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I have 4 Morgans.
My 2005 Roadster is Metric
My 1951 Plus 4 is SAE
My 1938 4/4 is Whitworth
My 1934 Trike is Whitworth
Tools, yes I have tools!! Lot of tools!!
Cheers,
Mark
Last edited by MarkB; 18/09/26 02:13 PM. Reason: typo
Mark
1934 SS MX4
1938 Series 1 DHC
1951 Plus 4
2005 Roadster
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I stand to be corrected, but aren't most brake pipe fittings still BSP, even on stuff like BMW?
Tim H.
1986 4/4 VVTi Sport, 2002 LR Defender, 2022 Mini Cooper SE
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