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I've never seen one, but I believe there was a version on the Mk 1 Discovery marketed by Honda as the "Crossroad"Imagine that?! Must have been the shonkiest thing ever to wear a Honda badge. Pity the dealers who had to go through their drawers to find the long lost warranty forms.EDIT: Curses! Baz beat me to it! Must type faster.

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here in Jersey there is a Honda badged Frontera-proper job from the U-S of goddam A its exactly the same as a Vauxhall Frontera but with Honda Badges and the orange side markers them yanks have. Can't think why Honda would do that-Unless it was before the CRV, Mind you-they did it with Rovers I suppose.

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Changing the subject slightly I never could understand how later examples of French market Honda Concertos were no more than rebadged Rover R8s. OK I mean I know that's basically all the Concerto was anyway... but you see what I mean

 

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That's right, these are actually Rover 200s with Honda badges rather than a proper Concerto with all the differences. Though if I understand correctly does this only apply to the diesel versions because Honda didn't make one? :? The amount of cars sold in different markets under different brands would fill an entire book.Actually, I'd buy a copy....

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There was a lot of crowing in the contemporary press about how Saab had designed the anti-corrosion measures for the Delta. Worked well, didn't it? :roll: There's loads of stuff in Oz that's rebadged dating from the late 80's/early 90's, something to do with the 'Button Plan'. You could even get a Holden Commodore badged as a Toyota Lexcen if you wanted. I think they'd dropped the Nissan engines by that time though...Not seen a Honda-badged Izusu Trooper, all the ones round here have 'BigHorn' written on the back with Lotus badges, usually being driven ridiculously slowly by women of diminished stature.

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Re the original post, didn't we have a red one like this up on the ebay thread a few weeks back? (From yank-bay)

 

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Honda Passport badged Frontera. We got similar things (usually pick-ups) in Thailand, sold as Isuzus (locally built, too).

 

There are 10 Honda Passports on ebay.com at the mo!

I couldn't find a Horizon, though.

 

 

 

 

From this thread...

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WTF?! I never knew there was badge engineering between Honda and Isuzu! That's a 6th gen Civic saloon isn't it?

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Well done, Sir. Have a biscuit.

I read this on Thaivisa.com:

Honda and Isuzu had some kind of exchange deal around '97 where the Honda Civic was

badged as an Isuzu Vertex, and Honda sold a pick-up identical to the Isuzu Spacecab

called the Honda Tourmaster. I'm not really sure what the point of that was.

I have also seen the aforementioned pick up badged as an Opel Campo here.

 

I read somewhere else (can't find it now) that it was beacause Honda

didn't have a suitable pick-up for the Thai market (neither did Opel, it

would seem), and Isuzu were without a car at the same time.

As they are now.

 

 

 

An older one:

 

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Isuzu Gemini

 

Does that remind anyone of any Opel / Vauxhall? I thought Ascona-ish?

 

 

More silliness on

this page

and here, too.

Not to mention the Opel/Daewoo and Ford/Kia/Mazda confusion sprinkled elsewhere in the thread...

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This one is a bit of an oddball, the VW Pointer which is a cross between a Polo and an Escort but kind of neither really :?

 

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And this one is quite familiar I think, the VW Apollo which was also sold as the Ford Verona (2-dr Orion):

 

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Another VW/Ford tie-up, the Ford Versailles which is a VW Santana but a 2-door......and a 2-dr estate

 

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And staying in Brazil, I really want one of these, a Chevrolet Monza SR 8)8)

 

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