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

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Wow, that design looks weird overall.
 
A rebadged second generation Mitsubishi Pajero/Montero.

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I know the Lincoln Mark LT was posted here already, but not its predecessor, the Lincoln Blackwood.

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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.
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Nowadays, they know better not to put a luxury brand name on trucks, and fill up the regular truck brand with luxury goodies instead.
 
The extreme variants or trims of some pure full-size trucks, like the F-150 Raptor/SVT Raptor and Ram Rebel are a lot better looking than those things.
 
GTV0819
You mean they have 15 different rebadged models from other brands?
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No, the Pajero has been rebadged by by 15 different Chinese car companies.
 
Draggon
No, the Pajero has been rebadged by by 15 different Chinese car companies.
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Really? I didn't know that until now. However, I can recall Hyundai rebadging the SUV as the Galloper before.
 
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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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.
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Buick Exelle HRV (also known as the Suzuki Reno or Daewoo Lacetti)
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05XR8
One that puzzeled me back in the day and it still goes on with the German brands:

Mercedes-Benz 500E
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It was renamed/rebadged an E500.
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Just naming conventions across the whole Mercedes range. It started when the 190E was replaced by the C-class. Mid way through this E-class's lifecycle Mercedes moved all their segment markers in front of their engine-sizing markers, hence the 200E became the E200 etc.
 
MedigoFlame
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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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 ...



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.. 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.
 
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.
 
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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The Yaris iA sedan is also based on the Mazda2 sedan.
 
Why not?
RandomCarGuy17
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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RandomCarGuy17
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.
 
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