In the 80s and 90s, there where many weird car brands and partnerships. Rover and Honda formed Sterling, GM and Sizuki rebadged many cars and sold them throughout Canada. Here is the place to discuss weird stuff like that
ever heard of the button plan in australia? back in the mid 80's, it was a government dude's idea to get ford and holden (the two biggest local car manufacturers) to focus only on building their flagship cars, and rebrand all of their compact cars from other brands. strangely, it wasn't even limited to GM using isuzus and ford using mazdas, as has usually been the case. the results of this? behold: the ford maverick, entirely a nissan patrol, except for the badges stuck on the nissan-looking grille. then they took all of those leftover nissan badges and put them on XG falcon utes. this one was called the "Nissan: the ute" perhaps the most famous pair, and the ones with the most effort put into restyling: the toyota lexcen (a normal VS commodore on the right for reference) and a holden apollo (a normal camry for reference) Look at that melted cheese front end! on the lexcen, they even went as far as restyling the rear (normal audm camry for reference): i've heard the joke in a few places that "the apollo was the most reliable car holden ever made" (being an early 90's toyota) the smaller brother to this was the holden nova, an e90/e100 corolla underneath, with quite possibly the most hilariously 90's rear restyling attempt: they put this tacky white pinstriping on the toyota taillights: there were others as well, the holden astra was a nissan pulsar, the ford corsair, which was a nissan pintara (basically a U12 bluebird) and a couple of others that slip my mind currently. suffice to say, it was pretty unsuccessful. while they did sell a few, even most people with no interest in cars caught on to the fact that the new holden at the dealership looked exactly like a toyota from everywhere but the front and back, including the interior. the nova and apollo did give holden an opportunity to have a compact car that wasn't a GM J-body (the camira, a famously steaming pile of garbage) so I guess that was a plus.
There was the Alfa Romeo Arna, a poor quality rebadge of the Nissan Cherry \ The Triumph Acclaim, a rebaged Honda Ballade(the last car they made THe most insane example is the Isuzu Trooper, which was sold all over the world as the Caribe 442, Acura SLX, Chevrolet Trooper, Subaru Bighorn, SsangYong Korando Family, Honda Horizon, Opel Monterey, Vauxhall Monterey, Holden Jackaroo, Holden Monterey and HSV Jackaroo.
there's also the "GM Aveo" i call it, which was badged as a Chevrolet Kalos, Lova, and Nexia, a Daewoo Gentra and Kalos, a holden barina, a Pontiac G3, Wave, and G3 Wave, as well as a Ravon Nexia R3, Suzuki Swift+, and a ZAZ Vida.
This thread was made for GM. Besides the sonic, spark, camaro, corvette and caddilac RWD sedans, give me a modern GM car not rebadged.
sonic and spark were rebadged as holdens (barina and barina spark) if you're ok with going back a bit there was the cadillac XLR, pretty heavily based off the c5 corvette. (there were also rumours at one point of the gen 6 camaro being sold in RHD as a holden monaro, though that obviously never went through.)
Only the bolt was not rebranded --- Post updated --- I was assuming nobody would go back 15 years to the XLR
Chevy Suburban and GMC Suburban, I guess. I'm not sure if that's a good answer for this thread or not.
Minor Differences =/= platform sharing Big Differences = platform sharing I Guess XT5 hbas big differences, but GX is just different bodywork, badges, and infotainment system name. Poor Datsun! Went from icons like the fairlady 2000 roadster, Bluebird, 510, and fairlady 240Z to low priced Lada rebadges............................................................................so sad.
You guess? Go take a hard look at both, there's really nothing similar about them appearance wise (not accounting measurements btw) That doesn't make it a rebadge if the bodies aren't even the same, nor does it differ from the XT5-Blazer comparison for that matter. You don't see people calling a MDX a Pilot rebadge or a Rendezvous an Aztek rebadge, so how is it different now?
I have been in lots of buicks and chevys, the interior is the same. Much less different than XT5 to Blazer.
Interior doesn't have anything to do with the idea of rebadging tho, and that doesn't change the fact that the bodywork is completely different.
Well, there are a few exceptions. There is obviously the Captiva, then the ones Holden rebadged such as the Acadia and TrailBlazer.
