Badge Engineering

[sirwiggum]

Somewhere underneath this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2009_ ... _Sedan.jpg

Is a Corsa

Feel free to add other interesting examples of badge engineering

[CountryPug]

Peugeot iON/Off = Mitsubishi i-MiEV

[FarmerPug]

Every vauxhall made since the 80s

[Doggy]

Not really the right thread for this, but it's just reminded me....

The other night I was following a VW. Originally the badges on the bootlid would have read:

BORA .............................................................................................. 2.0T

The right-most character had mysteriously migrated to the near side, effecting a transformation that got me from yawning to wetting myself in under a second....


Completely forgot, no that's not true - made a conscious decision not to check the driver for a mankini.

[FarmerPug]

I seen it on a tdi bora. they moved the T over beside the bora.

[FarmerPug]

A few off the top of my head
- Rover City rover
- Volkswagen Anorak
- Mazda 121
- Triumph Acclaim

[lozz]

Ford seat and vw did it,
they all put a few quid in the pot and come up with the Fraud gal axy,

chevrolet and daewoo use vauxhalls cast off parts,
daewoo did this 1st with the Nexia which was just a mk2 astra with a better looking front end suprisingly it worked out well
not a bad car

Mazda made a fiesta or was it the otherway round fiesta made a mazda

[FarmerPug]

British leyland did nothing but badge engineering for a while.
A lot of the big 3 cars in the 90s were actually japanese cars with yank badges.

I hate badge engineering its the laziest thing a car company can do.

[sirwiggum]

LOL @ BORA T

About the only time I'd smile at a VW Boring.

Ford and VW had a partnership in S. America. VW sold Escorts, I think called apollo, and Ford sold old Passats I think they were called Versailles.

Peugeot 206 sold as Citroen C2 in China.

[FarmerPug]

The peugeot 405 is still made in iran as the roa, and i think there is a RWD version.

[sirwiggum]

It's also sold facelifted as the Peugeot Pars.

And the RWD ROA / 405 is based on a Hillman Hunter

[FarmerPug]

[quote="sirwiggum"]
And the RWD ROA / 405 is based on a Hillman Hunter
oh dear an example of a front wheel drive car that handles better than a RWD car.

I would say the 505 and 504 but thats not badge engineering they are just make new from CKD kits.

[FarmerPug]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_9-2X

[sirwiggum]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_9-2X

Good call. I'll see your 9-2X and raise you a 9-7X aka Chevrolet Trailblazer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_9-7X

And the Saab 600

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_600

[FarmerPug]

That 9-7x is really confused, there is elements of saab solidness but then there are bits of cheap american interior.
where did the americans go wrong with dashboards, they used to make fantastic interiors see the caddilac brougham. But most of their cars now look worse than what hyundai was doing 10 years back.
Back to the badge engineering ill suggest the chevrolet tracker, another example of the americans being lazy and taking the suzuki vitara:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Tracker

And the talbot horizon with a dodge badge:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Omni

and some american renaults:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Alliance