This is a list of vehicles that have been considered to be the result of badge engineering (
rebadging
In the automotive industry, rebadging is a form of market segmentation used by automobile manufacturers around the world. To allow for product differentiation without designing or engineering a new model or brand (at high cost or risk), a manu ...
), cloning, platform sharing, joint ventures between different car manufacturing companies, captive imports, or simply the practice of selling the same or similar cars in different markets (or even side-by-side in the same market) under different marques or model nameplates.
Current examples
Past examples
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Car platform
A car platform is a shared set of common design, engineering, and production efforts, as well as major components, over a number of outwardly distinct models and even types of cars, often from different, but somewhat related, marques. It is prac ...
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General Motors Companion Make Program
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Brand
A brand is a name, term, design, symbol or any other feature that distinguishes one seller's good or service from those of other sellers. Brands are used in business, marketing, and advertising for recognition and, importantly, to create an ...
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Rebranding
Rebranding is a marketing strategy in which a new name, term, symbol, design, concept or combination thereof is created for an established brand with the intention of developing a new, differentiated identity in the minds of consumers, investors ...
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Joint Venture
A joint venture (JV) is a business entity created by two or more parties, generally characterized by shared ownership, shared returns and risks, and shared governance. Companies typically pursue joint ventures for one of four reasons: to acces ...
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List of Chrysler platforms Rear wheel drive cars
Front wheel drive cars
Trucks
See also
*Chrysler
* DeSoto
*Dodge
*Eagle
*Imperial
*Jeep
*Plymouth
*List of Chrysler vehicles
*List of Jeep vehicles
The following is a list of vehicle models / platforms sold und ...
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List of Fiat platforms
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List of Ford platforms
This List of Ford platforms features automobile platforms developed by Ford Motor Company, its present-day subsidiaries, as well as those shared from subsidiaries from the past (Mazda, Mercury, Volvo, Jaguar, and Land Rover).
Ford announced in ...
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List of GM platforms
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List of Hyundai-Kia platforms
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List of Mitsubishi platforms
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List of Nissan platforms Nissan platforms include:
* Renault-Nissan B platform
* Renault–Nissan C platform
* Renault–Nissan Common Module Family
* Renault–Nissan D platform
* Nissan F-Alpha platform
* Nissan FF-L platform
* Nissan MS platform
* Nissan FM platform
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List of Toyota platforms
The following model codes have been used by Toyota. The letters of the model code is found by combining the letters of the engine code with the platform code. If the engine code and the platform code have two letters each, the middle letter is co ...
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List of Volkswagen Group platforms
The German automotive concern, Volkswagen Group has, since the 1970s, developed a series of shared automobile platforms for their motor vehicles.
Originally, these were identified using a simple alphanumeric system. The first letter prefix ind ...
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