in the case of electric cars , they also buy in the motors , controllers and batteries

with modern cars , you would be lucky if the bonnet badge was even made for them

a friend of a friend has just got a very well paid job at leyland / daf ,factory , (paccar) his job is to get a pallet of parts that have come from china , strip the pallet , unbox (steering / suspension) parts and to rebox in daf boxes , then deliver pallet to the stores , a rather large markup is made as the final assy / packing has been done in the UK