Chrysler's "World Engine", Hyundai Theta would not exist if it were not for the engineers at Mitsubishi. The 4G63 is their father. Everything after that is just fiddling with dimensions and standard market updates (ie. alloy, belt>chain, reverse crossflow heads, GDI, VVT etc etc) which occurred during the GEMA days. I know how hard engineers work, and I know how little credit they ever get, so let's not disrespect them further with comments like:
Originally Posted By: WoodenNickle
As the Asians are so quick to copy (and improve) I couldn't see them developing their own engine.