@Sediment I meant shit like the Suzuki Equator or the Mitsubishi Raider pickups. Don't be a dick.

????

What do you think the difference is between the panther and these other rebadged cars?

Different levels of luxury and amenities.

The difference between the Nissan and Suzuki is what dealer lot its parked at. Why ever waste the inventory space to sell someone else's vehicle that wasn't produced by you?

Nissan and Suzuki capture completely different market demographics.

lol okay. I don't happen to think consumers are dumb enough when purchasing vehicles that they can't tell the (lack of) difference between a Suzuki Equator and a Nissan Frontier

The only way you could possibly think that is if you are in fact the sort of consumer dumb enough that you can't tell the difference.

Why would someone buy the Suzuki?

Or the Mitsubishi Raider?

Nothing on it was produced by that company.

Everyone can tell its the other truck masquerading as something different

So hold on

You think badge engineering is dumb except the majority of the time when it's not

Maybe I used the wrong term?

And you think that the average consumer can honestly tell the difference between rebadged pickups

If badge engineering is what you call the Panther platform, then I'm not talking about badge engineering.

So you called me a dick because you're making overgeneralizations you can't justify based on a lack of understanding

No, I used the wrong term. I'm not the one being hostile here, dude...

What's it called when a foreign company steps into a market, and then takes a competitors vehicle, slaps a different bumper on it, and tries to pass it off as "competition" against the same vehicle?

Not joint venture vehicles, just complete mooching off the others production

Ok you're pretending to be retarded with that one

Its a serious question: What is the purpose behind the Suzuki Equator? It fools no one into thinking it's actually a Suzuki.

Practically no one bought them

Ok

You own Suzuki

You want to introduce a pickup truck to the market because people in North America like pickups

The problem is if you design a pickup for North America, and you're Suzuki, it will probably reflect the sales of your other vehicles.

So it's not worth the gamble

So you approach a company, say Nissan and offer a deal to rebadge one of their vehicles

Nissan finds it to be an acceptable deal and you have business

Now you aren't in the hole for engineering something, as suzuki, for a continent, that will probably sell like a Suzuki

The fact that X amount only sold doesn't matter

That's after the fact

But it's not your pickup, and the quality of Nissan's pickup gets placed on you.

Or, people see through your bullshit and just go buy the Nissan instead.

The average yokel probably doesn't know he's buying a Nissan

I'm pretty sure the average consumer is a bit more informed than that

Go ahead and tell the middle aged mom driving the infinity that she owns a Nissan

Infinity and Nissan are not a comparable example

They are

They're different markets

Luxury and entry