I expect they were designed for an environment that isn’t buried in salt in the wintertime. Compare any NY car to a GA car of same make, model, and year. It rains in GA, but the lack of salt makes all the difference.

It’s all subjective. Shit, my favorite car is the fwd gm A bodies, they are objectively awful, build quality in the interior sucks, the engines are almost all gutless on some level, but the whole mess of bad decisions works as a full, practical car, and you can actually have fun tossing turbos and supercharged engines…

Not just people in the US, people in any western market where these were sold. Besides that, the Yugo was not created in response to any market demand or pressure, but as the only option in its home country. It was this or a donkey if you were a Yugoslav. It just happened that Bricklin thought it’d be a good idea to…

Yugo owner here.

The Ford Lima 4 worked fine if you maintained it because it powered thousands of Ranger pickups. Your Capri was probably suffering years of neglect. My friends got 25 years out of a 93 Ranger with a 2.3 and a 5 speed, and replaced it with a used Ranger.

As an owner of a 9-7x Aero, I want to disagree, but...

The story goes that the Saab suspension tune was so much better than the Impreza that the Subaru team was pissed that the wouldn’t share it. Low sales were the result of GM thinking that the badge was worth a massive price premium.

S-10?   ...or Isuzu Hombre?

American luxury in Japan?

And if Jalops want the list of lists when it comes to rebadging:

The Dodge Challenger started as the ultra-cool “Vanishing Point” car and now it’s a monster muscle car with the proper retro styling. But back in the 80's, the Challenger was a rebadged Mitsubishi Galant:

The Toyota Cavalier

I give you, the Kia Elan. Kia just bought all the tooling and off it went...

Saturn Relay.

Just wanted you to know I resurrected my long-lost Kinja account just to give you a star. I hope others do the same.

The swan song of Packard. the Packard Hawk! They took the lovely Studebaker Hawk and made it ugly!

This is not the greatest badge engineering in the world, no

Wow, GM has so many examples of this, it’s hard to know where to start.

My vote as well.  I saw the concept car for this at the Autorama in the 80's and it was a cool dual cowl phaeton with rear view cameras.  The letdown to have an overpriced Cavalier be what was on the road was immense. 

I mean, did it get worse than this?