My Mrs had a Nissan Platina Mexico, basically a Renault Clio mark two with a boot...parts in Mexico were exorbitant so I used to buy Renault bits in UK and ship them over..
My other half had a VX220 for 5 years whilst I had the Elise. Build by Lotus in the Lotus factory, and more often than not, the same part in the Vauxhall box cost 2 or 3 times the one in the Lotus box!