Ugly, weird, silly, and just plain stupid car rebadges

[jus1029]

@Lilium @ToyGTone Actually, the Asia-Pacific FD Civic is a rebadged CSX. I'm just show from where the design came from, to where it ended up.

Since the FA Civic was sold in China, the FD was sold as a Dongfeng in 2012-15, alongside the FB. Due to bearing a lot of similarities with the FA, sales were poor.

 

[ToyGTone]

@Lilium @ToyGTone Actually, the Asia-Pacific FD Civic is a rebadged CSX. I'm just show from where the design came from, to where it ended up.

Actually i already know that.

Since the FA Civic was sold in China, the FD was sold as a Dongfeng.

I mean i know that Chinese cars like Geely, BYD, Chery, Jac and so on exists and started getting more popular over here but i never heard of Dongfeng. I'm curious and want to know more about them.

 

[jus1029]

In the subject of Chinese cars...

Shanghai-Volkswagen Santana

Shanghai-Volkswagen Santana 2000

Shanghai-Volkswagen Santana 3000

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Volkswagen Jetta (US)

FAW-Volkswagen Jetta König

FAW-Volkswagen Jetta Pionier​

 

[Turbo]

1980-1987 Saab 600, a rebadged Lancia Delta. This was the result of a partnership between Saab and the Italian Fiat Group in 1980. Saab was originally going to design a new compact car to replace the aging 99, but at last minute decided to just rebadge the Lancia instead, because they didn't have enough money to produce an all-new vehicle. The only engine it got was a 1.5L four-cylinder, which pumped out 85 horsepower. There also was no automatic transmission available. These Saab-Lancias were exclusively sold in Sweden, Finland, and Norway, and only 6,419 were made.

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[Legro]

Saab was originally going to design a new compact car to replace the aging 96,

Technically they already had over 10 years earlier, they called it 99.

Seriously though, I'd say that the Saab-Lancia was more of an attempt to sell a car made by a company, which had neither the dealer network or anywhere near good brand recognition in the market in question, through a company, which had both, than a serious attempt at a compact car by Saab.

 

[Turbo]

Technically they already had over 10 years earlier, they called it 99.

My mistake.

 

[Tornado]

Remember when the Dodge Challenger used to be Japanese?

I did learn the other day, if it is any consolation, that an LA block technically fits in one, though:

 

[Legro]

My mistake.

Not entirely, there was a bit of sarcastic take on Saab keeping the 96 on its line-up up until the early 80s and then making a budget car by combing a 99 and 900 for the same market as the 600 was sold in 84.

 

[MedigoFlame]

The Mercedes X-Class. Basically a Nissan Navara.

The Nissan interior bits won't help it feel...like a Merc.

 

[EngieDiesel]

The Mercedes X-Class. Basically a Nissan Navara.

The Nissan interior bits won't help it feel...like a Merc.

The Merc version looks more like a cheap base model of the Navara, what with the flat plastic bumper and barren dashboard. What exactly are people paying a premium for, the itty-bitty touchscreen they glued on there?

 

[ToyGTone]

Suzuki Cultus

Ops not the Pikes Peak version, I meant the normal one.

Was also sold as a Geo Metro, Chevrolet Sprint, Pontiac Firefly, Holden Barina, Subaru Justy, Suzuki Swift and so on.

 

[Turbo]

2008-2010 Gaz Volga Siber




A rebadged Dodge Stratus for the Russian market. The weirdest part is, this was rebadged two years after the Stratus had gone out of production, and the design dates back to 2000.
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[All Your Base]

The Renault Dauphine was rebadged as an Alfa Romeo for the Italian market during 1959-1964.

 

[daan]

Hillman Hunter

Was available from many Rootes Group companies.

Chrysler Hunter

Humber Sceptre

Singer Vogue

And it lived on in Iran until 2005 as the Peykan

The first Paykan, which means "arrow" in Farsi, was first manufactured in Iran in 1967, a year after the Hillman Hunter appeared in Britain. It became an exclusively Iranian model after Chrysler UK discontinued it and sold sole manufacturing rights to Iran in 1979.

In 2005, two million of the five million cars on Iran's roads are Paykans and sales were still 150,000 a year

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/apr/22/iran.roberttait

 

[jus1029]

Who can forget the most rebadged vehicle in world?

Fiat 124

SEAT 124

Tofaş Murat 124

Fiat-Kia 124

Premier 118NE

And finally...

VAZ-2101 till 07 (better known as the Lada Riva)

 

[RocZX]

'52-'54 (Sears-Roebuck) Allstate a rebadged Henry J to be sold though Sears-Roebuck stores

 

[TenEightyOne]

Who can forget the most rebadged vehicle in world?

The Fiat/VAZ/Lada thing wasn't strictly a rebadge, the body panels and some of the chassis was the same but the cars built in the (Fiat constructed) VAZ plant were different in a thousand ways. Well, 800 ways. Not even the same engines/gearboxes etc.

Same with the Yugos.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

Chevrolet Lumina SS, I didn't think any branch of GM would call a commodore rebadge a "Lumina". This makes it the least boring Lumina I've heard of.

There's even a UTE version of the rebadge, but they missed the opportunity of calling it the El Camino.

 

[Turbo]

Who can forget the most rebadged vehicle in world?

Fiat 124

SEAT 124

Tofaş Murat 124

Fiat-Kia 124

Premier 118NE

And finally...

VAZ-2101 till 07 (better known as the Lada Riva)

Not even close to "most rebadged vehicle in the world". The Chevrolet Aveo was rebadged twice as much.

There's even a UTE version of the rebadge, but they missed the opportunity of calling it the El Camino.

It would only make sense if they called it the El Camino if it was sold in North America, which it wasn't. The markets where it was sold in never received the El Camino.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

It would only make sense if they called it the El Camino if it was sold in North America, which it wasn't. The markets where it was sold in never received the El Camino.

I know, I wasn't being serious.

 

[ToyGTone]

Chevrolet Lumina SS, I didn't think any branch of GM would call a commodore rebadge a "Lumina". This makes it the least boring Lumina I've heard of.

There's even a UTE version of the rebadge, but they missed the opportunity of calling it the El Camino.

The only reason why car enthusiasts over here knows the existence of Holden is because of this car. It's surprisingly popular to see plenty of these with a Holden Badge. While South Africa got the Ute version, for unknown reasons we didn't get it sadly.

While I like it, I find myself thinking that it's a bit overrated IMO.

 

[Liquid]

The Vauxpel Kadastra E also took on the glorious incarnation as both the Pontiac Le Mans and the Daewoo Le Mans Racer

 

[Tornado]

And the Pontiac was built by Daweoo and imported from Korea instead of actually being the Vauxhall version, just to make absolutely sure you knew how much contempt late 80s GM had for people who bought small cars instead of Bonnevilles.

 

[jus1029]

The Vauxpel Kadastra E also took on the glorious incarnation as both the Pontiac Le Mans and the Daewoo Le Mans Racer

Related:



GEE-ESS-EYE

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

The late 90s Mitsubishi Mirage got rebadged as this; the Soueast V3 Lingyue. There were also oddly enough sporty versions of this rebadged Mirage, but the car manufacture for some reason didn't upgrade the performance or change the drivetrain like Mitsubishi did.

https://carnewschina.com/2014/11/25...elifted-soueast-v3-lingyue-unveiled-in-china/

 

[Turbo]

Apparently, the venerable Opel GT was badged as the Buick Opel GT for the American market.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Apparently, the venerable Opel GT was badged as the Buick Opel GT for the American market.

That's stupid on so many levels

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

To think that Buick was selling rebadged Opels even back then.

 

[Northstar]

The GT was only rebadged on paper, presumably because people weren't familiar with the Opel nameplate. They still had proper Opel badging.

My uncle had 3 at one point and my cousin had one until a few months ago. Great little cars.

 

[MedigoFlame]

Never realized Toyota rebadged a Citroen/Peugeot van as their own. The Toyota ProAce.