![]() 10/05/2015 at 14:20 • Filed to: LISTS | ![]() | ![]() |
Cars get rebadged all the time, and sometimes it makes a lot of sense, or it is at least expected. Sometimes, however, it’s just so strange it makes your head explode. Let’s have a look at the ten weirdest re-badged cars in the history of automobile, and feel to add your own submission in the Kinjas below.
10 - Ford Versailles
9 - Volkswagen Routan
8 - Saab 9-7x
7 - Simca-Talbot Horizon
6 - Volga Siber
5 - Toyota Lexcen
4 - Triumph Acclaim
3 - Acura SLX
2 - Holden Apollo
1 - Toyota Cavalier
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The weirdest really should be the Honda Crossroad, which was a LR Discovery.
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Dodge Attitude! The newest one is just a Mitsubishi Mirage
Previous generations were just Hyundai Accents with Dodge badging and Hyundai badges on the back.
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Hey, I am sitting in front of that building at USC right now! Haha
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I’ll take that acura over anything in their current lineup
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How’s the Simca-Talbot Horizon a weird rebadge? It’s no rebadge at all, if I’m not mistaken.
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Umm this is not a rebadge.
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Isn’t it a rebadge of the Dodge Omni/Plymouth Horizon?
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Sort of the other way around. The L body was a modified version of the Talbot.
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Dodge Omni / Plymouth Horizon
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Since nobody is bothering to give sources on the Simca-Talbot Horizon:
The US market Omni/Horizon was a derivative of the Simca-Talbot Horizon , which was sold as a Simca, Chrysler, or Talbot depending on market and year.
So the Omni/Horizon that we got is actually the badge-engineered version.
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How come ?
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Didn’t know that. Interesting.
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Yes,
that
’s the rebadge. Sort of.
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Looks like it was the other way around, but not exactly. It’s
complicated
.
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Simca-Talbot was Chrysler Europe, so as rebadges go, it’s closer to Toyota’s use of the Scion name in the US. However, it gets weirder. The US Omni/Horizon shared the looks with the European version, but few major parts, including engine, suspension, and even body panels.
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adding info to each selection, possibly describing the car in question and why it was so would probably wouldn’t have added anything at all to this.......... I mean the Routan is a given.. but the rest?
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where is that sold?!
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Mexico!
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I don’t always have the time.
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That thing is weeeiiird looking
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Cadillac BLS. Why Cadillac thought it was necessary to enter the European market with a reb added Saab, we may never know.
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What about the Suzuki Equator and Mitsubishi Raider???
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I want that Triumph badged Civic. Probably the most reliable Triumph ever.
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What was this a rebadge of?
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Simca was Chryslers brand in Europe. It is like calling the Vuxhaul VXR a rebadge of the Holden Commadore, or the Infiniti Q6o a rebadge of the Nissan Skyline Coupe.
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VW Quantum
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B-but TRD Cavalier!
And race car!
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It was designed by Simca right? Simca (or Chrysler Europe for that matter) was bought by PSA shortly after the launch, and Chrysler got the rights to continue production for north america and further developed the car independently from PSA. That technically makes the Horizon the ‘original’, and the Dodge Omni the ‘rebadge’.
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I remember seeing that “Acura” at an auto show when I was like, 12? I didn’t know a lot about cars, but we happened to have arrived there in a rental Isuzu Trooper. I just marveled at the Acura, thinking,
how can they charge $10,000 for some Acura badges? Who would buy this??
WTF
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The 9-7x aero is actually the only Saab I’d willingly buy these days. An AWD Corvette SUV in a European designer suit? Sign me up!
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It was basically and Olds Bravada body with an Euro designer front clip.
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Ford Courier / Mazda B series
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And the aero had a LS V8
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Knew about all of these except for #2 and #10.
There are other weirdly rebadged cars in Latin America... like the VW Apollo (Euro Ford Orion), VW Pointer/Logus (Euro Ford Escort) and the Ford Royale.
These rebadges are the result of a Ford-VW joint venture called Autolatina:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autolatin…
And if you want to read about some interesting weird model whoring/rebadging, read up on the Opel Kadett E:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opel_Kade…
And also just read up on the RWD and FWD versions of the GM T platform:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_T_plat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_T_plat…
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And here’s some detailed history on it:
http://www.allpar.com/omni/horizon-c…
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No, Chrysler Europe was actually the lead developer on the Horizon project. If anything, the Dodge/Plymouth versions were rebadges of the Simca.
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Most unreliable Honda ever.
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My coworker just saw one of these here in Atlanta a few weeks ago. I had to look it up since I had never heard of it.
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