Likely added for legal reasons in US.  May not have been original in Mexico.  No heat or AC, either...

The Vibe also had a trim equivalent to the XRS.

I’m with you. Too expensive to use for “work”. Not nice or special enough to be a show car.

You could add more blind spots!

Smokescreen. Chaff. Gatling gun.

Don’t forget the cloud cars: Stratus, Cirrus, and Breeze.  As well as the second generation of Stratus, Sebring, and Eclipse.

Unless you’re looking for a base to build El Chapo II: We Don’t Need No Stinking Windows, I just don’t know what you’d do with this to make it worth $19.5K.

Funny thing is that, if memory serves me right, the Chevy Aveo in its turn was a rebadged Deawoo Kalos . So a kinda rebadge of a rebadge, whoa dude...

You had the Suzuki Equator, but let’s not forget the other off-brand Japanese truck from that era, the Mitsubishi Raider. It made sense, given how much platform sharing DaimlerChrysler and Mitsubishi continued to do. It was basically a third-generation Dodge Dakota with a nose job, and—like the Dakota—could be had…

Yep, back in the 90s Chrysler had to make sure that at least 3 companies among Dodge, Plymouth, Eagle, and Chrysler all got the same models.

It was actually “expresso” spelled the way people incorrectly pronounce the shot of coffee espresso.

I actually recognized all of these except the Cutlass/Malibu thing.

Thats a good one. I actually sold Pontiac around the time this was out. Terrible little car. So was the G5 (a rebadged Chevy Cobalt coupe.) I’ll probably have to do another one of these lists with more cars.

The Pontiac G3 probably belongs in this list. It was a badge-engineered Chevy Aveo and in the USA it was sold for only 1 model year (2009), right before Pontiac got canned in the mid-aughts economic crash.

The Routan is a VW in Name Only and a disgrace to the VW Van Family.

VW actually used a rebadge for their european minivan too - the Sharan was just a Ford Galaxy (and also a Seat Alhambra) one of my friends mum’s had one and I loved riding in that damn thing. It was like a spaceship compared to my mums Volvo 940

the Fiat Freemont always seemed like the laziest, ‘why would you ever export that?’ type of international rebadge

I don’t know what it says about me that not only do I remember all of these, I’ll occasionally check for two of them as potential second cars (the Entourage and Routan).

My absolute favorite rebadges are the ones where there is next to no effort made to differentiate between the models. Like, just a grille-and-tail-lights job, because changing the headlights costs too much money to federally certify.

Hey “neighbor”. I live near the Ford dealer in Snohomish and, ditto to what you said. It’s sparse....