In the early 80s, I purchased a Mitsubishi Precis on the island of Guam and it was called the Dodge Colt stateside. I drove it around for quite a bit even when I got back to the states and had the clutch replaced I found out that the transmission was a VW transmission. In fact, a number of makes and models were designed to use the VW FWD transmissions.
i had one
really good car