For comparison - the Nash/Austin Metropolitan. Project/concept designed in Detroit, then hawked round to various European manufacturers for construction, contract awarded to Austin in UK who productionised it with Austin's own oily bits, and then shipped them to US as the sole original market (although later started selling elsewhere as well).

So origin US, made in UK, made for US - a system everyone's always apparently been happy with, and has been used successfully cross the various different names (Nash/Hudson/Austin and plain Metropolitan).