Update Speculation thread

80s FWD coupe is a missing category currently, and plus it w e d g e.

 

Next map will be I THINK in a new eu country or in Asia but not us cause we got enough us map
All of this are speculation

 

I still say BeamNG needs a 90s Porsche like this

 

Autobello with a body kit?

I wonder if the new crossover/hatchback's platform will be used for any other cars down the line. It could be used as a weird shared platform between brands from different countries, similar to how the Dodge Dart was based on an Alfa Romeo.

 

Considering that there's a good chance this is european, i think it'd be more likely that this thing would (potentially) have like 4685835356387456837 rebadged versions.

 

I hate to be that guy, but anything 1890-1940 is also a missing category.

 

Okay Nathan24.

 

Something against an 1889 car?

 

That's GM/Chrysler stuff. Straight rebadges rarely worked well in Europe.

 

deleted because i am a dumb

 

Right, because a car company would have the same name as a shampoo company and use a logo with two R's.

 

Fair point

 

Really?
I thought Vauxhall and Bedford are big players in the market.(Both have tons of Straight rebadge GM cars)

 

Vauxhall is a local brand, they just rebadge Opels for the UK. But it's pretty much a formality, where Vauxhall is available, Opel is not and viceversa.

Straight rebadges here are fairly rare and generally limited to models with limited scope - LCVs and low-volume range fodder like citycars, MPVs, low-cost offerings. Even when models are shared across brands, they usually have some form of customization/brandization (see PSA or VAG). In the past, British Leyland was the Master of Rebadging™ and... we all know how it ended.

The last crop of direct rebadges we've witnessed were fruits of the acquisition of Chrysler by FGA, and other than the FIAT-branded Dodge Journey (FIAT Freemont), they all failed spectacularly...

 

As the son of a Journey owner, I am genuinely surprised that that was the one that did well in Europe. It's huge, it's clumsy, it's powerful enough with the ~270HP V6 but I don't even want to think about how slow it would be with some mediocre little turbodiesel, the 27 or so computers like to eat batteries (which are a pain of monumental proportions to replace) constantly and according to some complaints can actually cause everything including the ignition, power steering, and power brakes to go completely dead all at once with zero warning - never happened with this one and let's hope it stays that way!

 

OK , got it.
You mean the "Straight rebadge" that both are sold at the same market of same time.
I was thinking , "Straight rebadge" that is just using different brand to sell different market at the same time.(Than again , I still wonder , which one sales better , the Suzuki super Carry or Bedford Rascal..after all , they did sold at the same time.)
(And yes, I know how BL end......)

 

I just want an update to the thread moderation on this site, this is the third time that I’m trying to make a thread about my new k series 4 door mod and it keeps getting deleted

 

It might be that the similiar VW Touran or Ford S-Max are just as bad with faults but the Fiat Freemont (dodge Journey) was cheaper and more powerful (i sometimes find it funny that alot of tourans or S-Maxes were sold with the engine of a hot hatch but thats probably because lots of dads want fast cars but need something for the family)

 

It was dirt cheap and marketed as a no-frills family crossover instead of a pretentious sportscar like the former Dodge version no one really wanted. Undercut the korean-built Chevrolet Captiva by quite some margin, it was roomy, it ditched the atrocious cardboard interior of the original, it was powered by a (marginally) better Diesel engine than the ancient VW four pots in the early models... that, plus a better-known badge is all it needed to do better than the Journey.

Other huge and clumsy vehicles that were rebadged at the same time of the Journey - the Town & Country, the 300C and the dreadful 200 Convertible - were just that, huge and clumsy. Slapping the brain-dead Lancia badge on their bonnets did them no favor.

 

I don't know. I see it in the front end atleast.