After seeing this pic of a 'Subaru Traviq' in the comments, I wondered: what are the most horrific examples of rubbish badge engineering? Suggestions please!

21 Oct 2014

Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.

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The Mitsubishi Outlander / Peugeot 4007

There was also a Citroen model

I’m not sure if this counts, but here in Greece the Seat Malaga was sold as the Seat Gredos, because Malaga is too close to ‘malaka’, which means assh*le in Greek

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Gredos kinda sounds like ‘grothos’, which is like ‘malaka’ but worse, or so I’m told.

Please. No one does badge engineering like us. Especially mid 80’s Chrysler and GM.

Chevrolet Celebrity= Pontiac 6000=Buick Century =Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera

Dodge Aries= Plymouth Reliant =Chrysler Lebaron = Dodge 600= Plymouth Caravelle =Chrysler New Yorker not to mention all of the other cars that were based on the K.

Chevy Vitara, mad from the already bad Suzuki Vitara

or here in america a its called a Tracker it was also a geo

In China, VW is famous for confusing names because different generations of cars are sold in the same time and there are TWO different divisions plus German imports, FAW VW and Shanghai VW.

US-Spec Jetta= ” Sagitar”

Actual Jetta is something completely different.

And there is also a “Bora” and “Lavida” which are like cousins to the US-Jetta

Euro Passat=”Magotan”

Actual Passat is US Spec.

A altered model of a 90s Passat was still on sale around 2011, called “Santana”, but now it’s an altered/cheapo version of a Passat.

And these are just some little examples… Not to mention rebadged Dodge Journey, Dodge Dart and Caravan…..