Thats true that Kawasaki owns the enginerring to New Tech 60 foot cars if its true Bombardier did got the contract then kawasaki would still have somthing to with order like give Bombardier permission to used their design like Alstom did with R160A's;)
if it's Bombardier then it would be good because is busy with R188, M8 and etc and also heard a rumor from a insider that these cars may not come with Alstom Onix propulsion system instead they want to go back with dealing with Siemens
TA insiders did a study again on which propulsion system are better they find out siemens actually better and/or siemens must have drop the price on propulsion system before things was the other way around.
they might go through with the plan to change it to ALSTOM propulsion or they might cancel that plan I also did heard that R179s won't be compatible with R160s due to they're getting propulsion package.