Somebody bought one!

"sm70- why not Duesenberg?" (sm70-whynotduesenberg) 06/06/2014 at 22:02 • Filed to: None

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And I saw a Suzuki Equator maybe 5 minutes before.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 06/06/2014 at 22:05

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Someone has a Isuzu I-series around here.

Rare as rare gets IMO

Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 06/06/2014 at 22:09

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My friend actually has one. She actually really likes hers HAHA.

AMC/Renauledge > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 06/06/2014 at 22:14

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Yup. Just one of many in the long line of obscure badge-engineered Japanese trucks:

The two generations of Ford Courier were retrimmed Mazdas. Then Mazda turned around and badge-engineered the 1993-2010 Ranger as the Mazda B-Series.

The Chevy LUV was a rebadged Isuzu Faster pickup, which we got later as the "P'up" and "pickup." Then Isuzu turned around in the '90s and badge-engineered the Chevy S10 as the Hombre and the Chevy Colorado as the i-Series.

Chrysler rebadged the Mitsubishi Mighty Max as the Plymouth Arrow truck from 1979-81, and as the Dodge Ram 50 from 1979-93. Then Mitsubishi turned around in 2006 and rebadged the Dodge Dakota as the Mitsubishi Raider through 2009. The additional irony is that the Raider name used to be on a Dodge-badged version of the 2-door Mitsubishi Montero back in the '80s.

And then we had the Frontier/Equator tie-up that almost no one noticed. And don't forget that, before Fiat got Chrysler from Cerberus, Nissan was planning the second-gen Titan to use the 2009 Ram platform.

So in the '70s and '80s, you had American badges on Japanese trucks. In the '90s and '00s, you had Japanese badges on American trucks. Pretty crazy, huh?

Spaceball-Two > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 06/06/2014 at 22:14

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I don't know if the sales / stock varied by geography but these and the Equator are all over Seattle.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 06/06/2014 at 22:54

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Those are surprisingly common up here. Not as common as the Colorado/Canyon, but not as rare as the Equator/Raider.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna 06/06/2014 at 22:55

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I mean, I guess it's a Dodge Dakota, but I'm not sure the Gen-2 Dakota was very good either.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > AMC/Renauledge 06/06/2014 at 22:56

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Jeez, I forgot how common this was for a while.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 06/06/2014 at 23:25

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First one I've ever saw aroundhere.

Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 06/06/2014 at 23:26

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Yeah. I was like. It's a Dodge, which is a Fiat, who owns Ferrari.

THEREFORE, your Mitsubishi may be a Ferrari.

BOOM.