The king of badge engineering is at it again...

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Jesus. Friggin' GM has to be the most shameless, soulless corporation in the world. They make Enron look respectable. Next thing you know they'll be sticking a Saab badge on a Silverado.
 

MikeMike

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Originally posted by: DonVito
Jesus. Friggin' GM has to be the most shameless, soulless corporation in the world. They make Enron look respectable. Next thing you know they'll be sticking a Saab badge on a Silverado.

huh??

your comparing badge whoring to insider trading and the like?

you will never see that car, and if you do your lucky its an isuzu, sorta like ford and mazda, but no one cares about that...

MIKE
 

NFS4

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Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
Originally posted by: DonVito
Jesus. Friggin' GM has to be the most shameless, soulless corporation in the world. They make Enron look respectable. Next thing you know they'll be sticking a Saab badge on a Silverado.

huh??

your comparing badge whoring to insider trading and the like?

you will never see that car, and if you do your lucky its an isuzu, sorta like ford and mazda, but no one cares about that...

MIKE

Ford doesn't stick a Mazda badge on a Focus and say "Make it so"

Badge engineering != platform sharing
 
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Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1

huh??

your comparing badge whoring to insider trading and the like?

you will never see that car, and if you do your lucky its an isuzu, sorta like ford and mazda, but no one cares about that...

MIKE

Obviously I was kidding, not that Enron had anything to do with insider trading. That said, I will cheerfully kick Bob Lutz in the nuts next time I run into him. Ford simply has not abused the marques it has absorbed or merged with (Jaguar, Aston Martin, Volvo, Mazda), and GM has, to an astonishing degree.
 
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Originally posted by: DonVito
Jesus. Friggin' GM has to be the most shameless, soulless corporation in the world. They make Enron look respectable. Next thing you know they'll be sticking a Saab badge on a Silverado.

They did but used the trailblazer insyead. SAAB 9-7X (if it's out yet)
 

geno

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Holy Christ GM, give it a fvcking rest, this is so lame. I'm beginning to REALLY hate GM lately
 

geno

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Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
Originally posted by: DonVito
Jesus. Friggin' GM has to be the most shameless, soulless corporation in the world. They make Enron look respectable. Next thing you know they'll be sticking a Saab badge on a Silverado.

huh??

your comparing badge whoring to insider trading and the like?

you will never see that car, and if you do your lucky its an isuzu, sorta like ford and mazda, but no one cares about that...

MIKE

Ford doesn't stick a Mazda badge on a Focus and say "Make it so"

Badge engineering != platform sharing

No, but they'll stick a Mercury badge on a 500 and call it a Montego :p
And Ford has let Mazda stick their badge on the Ranger for some time now
 

NFS4

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Originally posted by: geno
Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
Originally posted by: DonVito
Jesus. Friggin' GM has to be the most shameless, soulless corporation in the world. They make Enron look respectable. Next thing you know they'll be sticking a Saab badge on a Silverado.

huh??

your comparing badge whoring to insider trading and the like?

you will never see that car, and if you do your lucky its an isuzu, sorta like ford and mazda, but no one cares about that...

MIKE

Ford doesn't stick a Mazda badge on a Focus and say "Make it so"

Badge engineering != platform sharing

No, but they'll stick a Mercury badge on a 500 and call it a Montego :p

True :p
 

geno

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Don't get me wrong though, GM is in the ultimately worst catagory of badge-whoring, Ford needs to trim up the badge-engineering a *tad*, but not nearly as bad as GM

Nothing will top the stupid Saab/WRX 92X (I think that's the name of it), what a disgrace to Saab that was...
 
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Originally posted by: geno
Don't get me wrong though, GM is in the ultimately worst catagory of badge-whoring, Ford needs to trim up the badge-engineering a *tad*, but not nearly as bad as GM

Nothing will top the stupid Saab/WRX 92X (I think that's the name of it), what a disgrace to Saab that was...

I agree the 92x is a stupid waste of money, but at least it's still a great car underneath. I actually think it'd be neat if they made a Viggen version that was basically an STi with slightly softer setup and nicer interior. IMO the 92x would have been respectable if they'd improved the interior.