Chevy Lacetti = Suzuki Reno???

ninty9er

Chevy Lacetti

Suzuki Reno

Didn't know the 2 companies were linked!!!

prospect

Its not unusual for companies to do this.

Suzuki SX4:



Fiat Sedici:

alias no.9

GM have a significant stake in suzuki. GM own Daewoo and rebadge them as Chevrolet for the US and Europe. Previous to GM buying Daewoo, their budget brand in the US had been called Geo, but that name was dropped and the range was rebranded Chevrolet. The Geo Metro more recently known as the Chevrolet Metro was based on the Suzuki Swift (1990's model).

The Geo Tracker was based on the Suzuki Vitara.


The mainstream european GM brands, Opel and Vauxhall have collaborated with Suzuki too with the extremely forgetable Agila which was a slightly restyled version of the even less charismatic Wagon R


The styling is looking a little better for their next collaboration though the Suzuki Splash and Opel/Vauxhall Agila


Opel and Vauxhall also use Suzuki derived engines, the 3 cylinder 1.0 from the agila and corsa and 4 cylinder 1.2 from the agila, corsa and previous generation astra are Suzuki lumps.

E92

The Suzuki Forenza is also the Chevy Lacetti saloon and Estate by another name. As is the Opel/Vauxhall Monetary the Isuzu Trooper. The Vauxhall Monaro, Pontiac GTO, and Holden Monaro are all the same car. GM are unbelievable for for this kind of thing. Of course when you have a million billion brands under your wing its inevitable that tis would happen. GM have more brands than sense. The Opel Sintra was sold in no less than 5 different versions (Opel, Vauxhall, Chevy,Pontiac,Oldsmobile) and they could get rid of a load of them, or merge a load of them like Vauxhall and Opel and Saturn, who all make the same car(all future Saturns will be the same as Opels aka Vauxhalls), so why go to the bother of marketing 3 different brands when one will do. then in Austrailia you have Holden, but practically all Holdens are re-badged Opels and Daewoos, they have the Astra, Viva(Chevy Lacetti), Berlina(Opel Omega) etc like we do, or in the Berlinas case did have since the Omega has long since been banished fom our shores.Its only at the top end do they anything of their own.

They GEO Prism which then became the Chevy Prism was exactly the same as the US model Toyota Corolla.

Max_Damage

Not to forget the Opel/Vauxhall Omega was called the Cadillac Catera in the States, and even the Opel Kadett / Vauxhall Astra was known as the Pontiac Lemans in America and as a Daewoo Lemans in Korea.

Also most Opel's/Vauxhall's are rebadged as Chevrolet's in Mexico and South America, and as Buick's in China.

As someone else said, GM are known for this, so are Ford (i.e. Mazda 626 = Ford Telstar).

peasant

Not to mention their terrible sin of throwing Subaru, Saab and a few spurious GM bits together and badging it as "Caddillac"

Yikes ...

C_Breeze

peasant wrote:

Not to mention their terrible sin of throwing Subaru, Saab and a few spurious GM bits together and badging it as "Caddillac"

Yikes ...

Haha yeah, that was a classic move. LOL

E92

The Opel Kadett returned in the early 90s after its demise when the Astra as introduced in the form of the Daewoo Nexia, though fortunately not for the Irish market. lol I forgot about all the Saabillacs(the 4X4s for the US) and Saabarus too:D (the 9-2X being the same car as the Impreza).
They are at this thing here in Europe as well, the Citroen C8, Peugeot 807, Lancia Phedra, and Fiat Ulyesse are all the same car. There was the Sharagalalhramba or Sharalhambraxy too:D for Europe.

Max_Damage

Another uninteresting fact: Did you know that the Opel Zafira was rebadged as a Subaru Traviq in Japan? I wonder if it got 4WD!?

bazz26

Horrible GM inbreeding:-

SAAB 9-2:

peasant

Yepp ...horrible, horrible things !
and degrading to both marques, Saab and Subaru


Saab 9-7X (redressed Subaru Tribeca, aka Cadillac SRX)

E92

Another bit of useless information: Holden also sold the original Zafira..... as a Zafira!

G Luxel

Max_Damage wrote:

Another uninteresting fact: Did you know that the Opel Zafira was rebadged as a Subaru Traviq in Japan? I wonder if it got 4WD!?

Its still available there. There was also a Suzuki Alto badged as a Subaru Justy over here.

Max_Damage

G Luxel wrote:

Its still available there. There was also a Suzuki Alto badged as a Subaru Justy over here.

That was actually the Suzuki Swift. The big difference between the two is that the Justy was modified to accept 4WD.

ninty9er

E92 wrote:

The Suzuki Forenza is also the Chevy Lacetti saloon and Estate by another name. As is the Opel/Vauxhall Monetary the Isuzu Trooper.

Also the Acura SLX and the Holden Jackaroo...the Acura is particularly surprising

peasant

Max_Damage wrote:

That was actually the Suzuki Swift. The big difference between the two is that the Justy was modified to accept 4WD.

The latest model of the Suzuki Ignis can also be had as a Subaru whatever on the continent. The Subaru would be 4WD.
Both are built in Hungary.