There’s also this sort of strategy of rebadged Fiat’s as RAM. But this only works in places where RAM is a recognized brand.

The Smart cabrio has a place to put the roof rails in the door of the trunk:

I think the current Caddy is the closest thing to the old VW Bus as they are much cheaper than the Transporter but they are still a work van transformed into a passenger car made by VW. Closest thing in the US would be the Transit Connect.

Like this?

They do offer them, just not in the US. As they are more focused for work rather than recreational use like the US mid size trucks.

Every brand that has a mid size pick up (Chevy, Ford, VW, Toyota, Nissan...) has a regular cab variant, it just depends on the country. And the torque of the Triton is 280 lb ft which is similar to an V6 American truck.

I mean they still have the chance of rebadging a truck based suv from Isuzu:

“It has a big rubber bumper from something else on the front, and adaption I saw on a number of buses.“

That’s a visual trick, the Cactus is slightly smaller than a VW Golf.

This car was also sold as the “Urban Crusier” in other markets which I guess it makes it slightly cooler:

We have one on our house, it’s the most economical and reliable car ever made, the interior is really cheap but it is so simple and surprisingly swift with the manual transmission.

That was an ad for the imported mini, as if it was a Chilean made mini it would say so as it was a big selling point having a car built here back then. I found another ad from 1979 with “carrocería metálica” and “absolutamente inglés” or absolutely English.

It’s a metallic (steel) body mini.

Applause

When the Pope visited Chile he was driven about in a Hyundai Ioniq, mostly because the visit was sponsored by Hyundai, but really cool how he didn’t just get in a Genesis but in a relativity small and “eco” car. He also reused the Wrangler popemobile that was used in the US.

It’s so both the driver and passenger can use it in case of an emergency, also if it is in your steering column you have to maneuver around or through the wheel to get to it, it doesn’t sound quite smart.

I think the Opel Adam started this trend back in 2013:

Nissan does that only if you try locking the car and it will not lock itself if it detects that the key is inside, so if you just leave the key inside and walk away nothing will happen.

But when the lady handed over the keys at Enterprise apparently they noticed it was an Infiniti key and not a Nissan one (even though they are the same) so somewhere in the story she must have found the Infiniti key and started using it. Maybe when she got home and the car wouldn’t lock she found the key inside and…

It was this one, I guess it’s less modern than the Nano but has a larger engine and is $100 bucks cheaper.