Maybe you are confused, or I am. Mazda and Mitsu haven’t been together, nor Subaru and Suzuki.

“As we have matured, our tastes have changed and we’ve grown apart intellectually, philosophically, politically, and in our recreational and culinary interests and now fall along parallel lines which will never again intersect”
- Ray Stevens

I believe that the “I never read the books” part is a major factor here.