Picture it: You are a car manufacturer and you want to add a serious off-road vehicle to your lineup, but you need to have it ready no later than yesterday. What do you do?
If you are Honda in the early '90s, you go straight for one of the most well-known builders of off-road vehicles, Land Rover. (Of course, having a 20% …
Totally unaware of this. Was it happening at the same time that the Sterling cars were being built in England?
Well lack of sales success, didn't stop them from rebadging the Isuzu Rodeo to a Passport, or Isuzu Trooper to an Acura SLX.
Of course Isuzu took the Honda Odyssey and made it a Isuzu Oasis LOL
Is that the only production V8 Honda ever?
Not as good as the 827SLi That was the pinnicle of that relationship.
Is that actually spelled CRO$$ROAD ?
Interesting that a company known for it's quality and reliability re-badges a vehicle from a company known for it's lack of quality and unreliability. Seems like an odd business choice even if you are desperate for an off roady sort of vehicle.
mr2s2000elise said:Well lack of sales success, didn't stop them from rebadging the Isuzu Rodeo to a Passport, or Isuzu Trooper to an Acura SLX.
Of course Isuzu took the Honda Odyssey and made it a Isuzu Oasis LOL
Isuzu got the better end of that deal. Oh the hate for looking up Isuzu parts or working on an Isuzu in a Honda store.
Streetwiseguy said:Totally unaware of this. Was it happening at the same time that the Sterling cars were being built in England?
I don't know but the Sterling was the ultimate turd.
In reply to Feedyurhed :
They really didn't want to build their own SUV. Tried the same thing with Isuzu twice before they built the Pilot. Then magically, everyone was happy. Especially the people who traded in their Passports for Pilots.
I had an Isuzu SUV that i thought was built wonderfully and was very reliable. It had a GM v6 and a japanese transmission. I contend that Isuzu SUVs didn't fall away from Honda levels of reliability until they had a Japanese v6 and a GM transmission! Unfortunately, those were the years Honda was rebadging them.
Also, 827SLi? YES.
Extra points for lack of rear passenger door on drivers side.
dxman92 said:Extra points for lack of rear passenger door on drivers side.
There is a 5 door and a 3 door. Both are pictured above.
Said in a different manner, all doors that open - have handles.
if you look closely, the 3 door versions middle windows (the window after B pillar) jhave the 3 bolts on it and are fixed, whereas same windows on the 5 door, go down into the doors which open
mr2s2000elise said:Well lack of sales success, didn't stop them from rebadging the Isuzu Rodeo to a Passport, or Isuzu Trooper to an Acura SLX.
Of course Isuzu took the Honda Odyssey and made it a Isuzu Oasis LOL
4th, 5th generation Izuzu Geminis(1993-96; 1997-2000) were rebadged Honda Civics of the same vintage.
In reply to RustBeltSherpa :
I didn't know about the rebadged Civics. That's cool. Kinda. Looks like they offered just four- and five-door models. Was hoping for the EG hatch.
RustBeltSherpa said:mr2s2000elise said:Well lack of sales success, didn't stop them from rebadging the Isuzu Rodeo to a Passport, or Isuzu Trooper to an Acura SLX.
Of course Isuzu took the Honda Odyssey and made it a Isuzu Oasis LOL
4th, 5th generation Izuzu Geminis(1993-96; 1997-2000) were rebadged Honda Civics of the same vintage.
They were actually rebadged Honda Domanis
Streetwiseguy said:Totally unaware of this. Was it happening at the same time that the Sterling cars were being built in England?
Sterling was more like '86. A neighbor down the street was head of east coast distribution or something semi-high up in the Sterling corporate food chain (which I assume maxed out at like Cheetos), so I saw them daily when I was 10 or so. Prior to that, or maybe concurrently, he was head of distribution for Maserati N. America. So I also saw running, driving Biturbos all the time. Sadly, at the age of 10 I did not realize I effectively lived down the street from a unicorn ranch.
As a man who has many rovers. I'd be pissed if I ended up with a rover when I bought a Honda.
They were actually rebadged Honda Domanis
Until now i had not realized that the original CR-V was not styled after a Civic, it was styled after a Domani! Apparently!
In other British car brand/ Honda badge swapping, the last model of car Triumph produced was a rebadge Honda Ballade called the Triumph Acclaim. There was also a turbo model.
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