A Hyundai kiarado...kianyon? Canyundai??? anyone? Don't be shy now.

[JavierH19]

I wonder if Hyundai will accept this because to me it just seems like a pointless business deal. I don't know who would want to buy a Korean badged colorado. The Colorado and canyon aren't huge sellers either, I wonder what they'll do to it.

If they make the exterior and interior different enough maybe. I wonder if they'd use GM's low output 2.7 more than GM does to try to market it as a more efficient truck.

I think the most interesting and maybe the best thing they could do is offer an SUV body on it. A high ground clearance rugged looking body on frame 4 runner competitor would be very different.


https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a64240997/gm-hyundai-pickups-vans-report/

 

[Escape08]

Rebadge has been going on for years. Dodge did that in the1970s for Dodge Colt which was a rebadge of Mitsubishi Galant.

 

[Cropduster172]

Rebadge has been going on for years. Dodge did that in the1970s for Dodge Colt which was a rebadge of Mitsubishi Galant.

Geo Prizm 93-94 era was a Toyota Corolla

 

[CharBaby]

Rebadge has been going on for years. Dodge did that in the1970s for Dodge Colt which was a rebadge of Mitsubishi Galant.

The Colt from both Dodge/Plymouth were Mitsubishi Mirages
The Plymouth Supporo/Dodge Challenger were Mitsubishi Galant Lambda
The Dodge Rampage were Mitsubishi Mitymax
Mitsubishi Starion/Chrysler Conquest
And on & on!

Mazda2/Scion iA/Toyota Yaris iA
BZ4X/Solterra
BMW Z4/Supra
Mazda MX6/Ford Probe

OMG, I could go on forever with all automakers.

 

[CKN]

I wonder if Hyundai will accept this because to me it just seems like a pointless business deal. I don't know who would want to buy a Korean badged colorado. The Colorado and canyon aren't huge sellers either, I wonder what they'll do to it.

If they make the exterior and interior different enough maybe. I wonder if they'd use GM's low output 2.7 more than GM does to try to market it as a more efficient truck.

I think the most interesting and maybe the best thing they could do is offer an SUV body on it. A high ground clearance rugged looking body on frame 4 runner competitor would be very different.


https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a64240997/gm-hyundai-pickups-vans-report/

GM has stopped offering the low output 2.7 in the Colorado effective in the next model year. Would they keep it around for Hyundai? who knows. Also to put this in perspective-potential Hyundai customers may not cross shop Chevrolet vehicles. This would give Hyundai dealers an opportunity to sell a body on frame truck that can see some towing-within it's limitations.

It's a situation where there really wouldn't be taking away any sales from GM.

 

[dadto2]

Isuzu sold rebadged S10's and Colorado/Canyons for years. Same sort of arrangement?

 

[dogememe]

I find this such a strange mashup.

Honda and GM with the Prologue/ZDX I understood... same Ultium platform, same batteries, same drive units, almost the same software, and Honda/Acura get EVs to sell for three model years before they come out with their own EV platform while GM gets to scale up production and sell more vehicles to customers that might not buy a GM-branded vehicle.

Nissan and GM with the Chevy City Express, a rebaged Nissan NV200... despite it being a turd, I can even understand that one... GM didn't have a small van to compete with Transit Connect and NV200 itself for its fleet customers that only bought GM and not every customer needs a big, thirsty Express van that's hard to park in a city environment.

Hyundai and GM, that I don't understand... Both companies have mature EV platforms. The entire point of GM Ultium was to make one set of stuff to fit in many different vehicles from New Bolt to Honda Prologue to Silverado EV to Hummer EV to achieve economies of scale which has so far worked out quite well for them. And they already have the Brightdrop vans. What does Hyundai bring to the table here? 800V-class architecture for faster charging? Completely pointless for the average small van buyer. Most businesses with electric vans will charge overnight on site so they don't care if it can do 150kw or 350kw on a DCFC. And if we're looking at Hyundai here, what does GM give them they don't already have - nothing I can think of! Sales of mid size trucks like Colorado/Canyon and Ranger are tiny compared to full size and often are purchased by businesses... and businesses already have relationships with GM or Ford for fleet purchases and nothing else is even considered. So sales of a Hyundai Colorado are going to be trash, IMO. Unless... Hyundai does want to go into fleet sales and they want a lineup of products that businesses might buy. But, I don't know why they would want to do this, it's notoriously low margin.

 

[slacktide_bitog]

Hyundai should sell the Staria over here

 

[goblin]

"...Hyundai/Kia: now defunct Korean conglomerate that was doing reasonably well till they went ahead with slapping a 10yrs/100k miles powertrain warranties on GM products..."
Wikipedia, circa 2030

 

[Owen Lucas]

The Dodge Rampage were Mitsubishi Mitymax

I'll take one of each, I love these weirdo car / truck Frankenstein creations.

Isuzu sold rebadged S10's and Colorado/Canyons for years. Same sort of arrangement?

I'd get the Isuzu just because it's odd and rare.

https://www.rampageforsale.com/1982-w-manual-in-stanley-wi/

Only $1000!

My wife would totally kill me though.

 

[Variant_S]

Lest we forget these Bobbsey Twins:

Honda Odyssey --> Isuzu Oasis
Isuzu Rodeo --> Honda Passport

 

[Finklejag]

 

[CharBaby]

How’bout the Mazda Miata & Fiat 124 Spider

 

[JavierH19]

How’bout the Mazda Miata & Fiat 124 Spider

I forgot the fiata existed for a bit. I've only seen one that I can remember.

 

[CharBaby]

I’ve seen a few Fiata’s but, only very few!
I do like’m better than the Miata.

 

[D60]

Am I the only one who would rather see this -- ie Chevy products with an H/K badge -- than the other way around?

Aren't things like the Trax basically a Korean (is it Daewoo?) product with Chevy badging? They're effectively disposable as I understand it.

 

[k1xv]

Just avoid the Kia Tincanna.