Ugly, weird, silly, and just plain stupid car rebadges
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Yema SQJ6451, a Chinese rebadged Subaru Forester.
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I know the Lincoln Mark LT was posted here already, but not its predecessor, the Lincoln Blackwood.
Dig those stripes! The back actually opened like a trunk lid, with swinging doors on the tailgate.
And there was a Cadillac pickup truck of sorts as well, the Escalade EXT, based on the Chevrolet Avalanche.
Nowadays, they know better not to put a luxury brand name on trucks, and fill up the regular truck brand with luxury goodies instead.
Dig those stripes! The back actually opened like a trunk lid, with swinging doors on the tailgate.
And there was a Cadillac pickup truck of sorts as well, the Escalade EXT, based on the Chevrolet Avalanche.
Nowadays, they know better not to put a luxury brand name on trucks, and fill up the regular truck brand with luxury goodies instead.
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All this talk about the PSA-Chrysler merger reminds me of the Lancia Thema, a badged-over 2nd-gen Chrysler 300, exclusively for Italy.
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Hongqi CA 7465 C8 (quite a mouthful) a rebadged Lincoln Town Car for... you guessed it, China.
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GTV0819
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So there are at least 12 different copies that almost looked like it? Rofl.I recounted and there are 'only' 12https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Pajero
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Randomly found out about this vehicle while helping a co-worker do some research on a first generation BMW X1. Apparently BMW had an EV venture in China called Zinoro. And they rebadged the first generation X1 as the Zinoro 1E.
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1968-1969 Karmann Javelin, a rebadged AMC Javelin for Germany. Supposedly only 300 were made.
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2013-2015 Alpheon. A rebadged Buick LaCrosse exclusively for South Korea. The Alpheon marque was quickly dropped after very poor sales.
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Badge/front-bumper engineering born from the need to keep a brand's CO2 emissions down in the EU and UK.
Enter the Suzuki Swace. Based on the Corolla Touring Sports hybrid which is already sold in Europe. I suppose it was a Swift way to lower Suzuki's fleet emissions.
Enter the Suzuki Swace. Based on the Corolla Touring Sports hybrid which is already sold in Europe. I suppose it was a Swift way to lower Suzuki's fleet emissions.
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Buick Exelle HRV (also known as the Suzuki Reno or Daewoo Lacetti)
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Yema SQJ6451, a Chinese rebadged Subaru Forester.
Actually that's a knock off and is based off this:-
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- GTP_TheCracker
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Randomly found out about this vehicle while helping a co-worker do some research on a first generation BMW X1. Apparently BMW had an EV venture in China called Zinoro. And they rebadged the first generation X1 as the Zinoro 1E.
I know I'm responding to an older post, but I don't often see this thread. The 1E wasn't really a rebadge, I know it looks like it is, but there was never a corresponding model from BMW, the 1E had a primitive EV powertrain, the first gen X1 didn't.
It had a follow up, the 60H, this was more rebadge since it was pretty much an X1 25e ...
.. though rebadge is perhaps a little harsh given it had quite a few sheet metal changes compared to the F48 X1.
Zinoro is a sub brand of the BMW-Brilliance Automotive alliance.
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OK so I remember seeing this car that was based off a civic, and was electric, but I can't remember the name.
It was very uncreative.
It was very uncreative.
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I just learned that the US still gets a Yaris hatchback, only that it's a hatchback version of the IA. Which was a Mazda 2.
It's kinda neat knowing that the US sort-of has the Mazda 2 hatchback again, but um...why?
It's kinda neat knowing that the US sort-of has the Mazda 2 hatchback again, but um...why?
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The Yaris iA sedan is also based on the Mazda2 sedan.
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I just said that...
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Why not?
I just learned that the US still gets a Yaris hatchback, only that it's a hatchback version of the IA. Which was a Mazda 2.
It's kinda neat knowing that the US sort-of has the Mazda 2 hatchback again, but um...why?
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If the pandemic didn't happen I was going to get one of these for a daily driver/ commuter car simply because it's so cheap. I honestly kinda like them, but I can't really explain why. Not many new, small, cheap car options anymore, I suppose.
