My son is very big into Land cruisers. Yes the engine was copied from a stove bolt but the clever jap's metrified the whole thing. made some changes and called it there own.
Japan does not have to buy a engine from GM, they just go find a truck and copy what the need.
Remember shortly after WWII all those products coming from Japan, most of it where copies and on top of it they Named the indudtrial area USA. This way they where be able to put the sticker on MADE IN USA
Look at some of the old cameras. They even copied the famous german camera LEICA. They had the nerve to even copy the lens mount that you where beable to interchange the lenses with Leica lenses.
I never seen a <metric stove bolt> so lets don't call the Toyota engine a stove bolt it might be a <Hibatchi> or what ever the japanese call ther cooking facitities.
My 1 ton truck is 50 years old and barely had any rust on it. Even it was parked for 20 years outside on a farm. You look at some of those Landcruisers. 10 years old and there is no sheetmetal left, just rust. Why where those cruisers brown painted. That way the rust did not show as early.
I am always joking about that with my son. The body parts on a landcruiser is Hitlers revenge
The germans sold the old U-boats to the japanese for scrap and they used the steel to make car parts.
