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Is this the same company that built trains?

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No! Automobiles Talbot is a UK/French car manufacturer and Bombardier Talbot is a German/Canadian rolling stock manufacturer.

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Thanks.

I have never heard about Automobiles Talbot.

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Talbot was the last gasp of Simca before they vanished. First the name changed from Simca to Chrysler, then from Chrysler to Talbot.

A model like the 1307/1308 started as a "pure" Simca, then became Simca/Chrysler and by the time the next generation (1510) came out, it had become a Talbot.

Another well-know Talbot model was the Samba.

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There were quite common cars in the days at least in Spain and France, nowadays nearly extinct in numbers, I own a Horizon and in my city there are less than 5 left

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You own one? That's really cool! I actually wanted to buy one a year ago but was never able to find one, I found one but it was on the other side of the country and got quickly sold. I haven't seen one on the roads in years. I assume yours was built in Spain? The one I saw was made in Finland.

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Yes, made in Madrid (Villaverde factory), the closing of the brand was really a bad thing for having more survivors, same as is happening now with Rovers here in Spain, mostly in the scrapyard.
Was it a model with good sales in artic countries?

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I believe they sold pretty decently when new. But nowadays they are very rare. French and Italian cars have always been the cars that survived the shortest.

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