If you are a car enthusiast you must have realised the second-generation Toyota Ractis and Subaru Trezia resemble each other.
Indeed, Trezia is a Ractis bearing the Subaru badge. This is called rebadging or badge engineering.
What is rebadging? the practice of replacing an automobile’s emblems to create an ostensibly new model sold by a different maker.
Changes may be confined to swapping badges and emblems, or may encompass minor styling differences, as with cosmetic changes to headlights, taillights, front and rear fascias, and even outer body skins. More extreme examples involve differing engines and drivetrains.
It started in 1917 with the Texan automobile assembled in Fort Worth, Texas, that made use of Elcar bodies made in Elkhart, Indiana.
Today, the practice is all over. For instance, Daihatsu Rocky is also sold as Toyota Raize and Perodua Ativa.
Suzuki Vitara Brezza also appears as Toyota Urban Cruiser, Toyota Probox sold as Mazda Familia and more others.
It is however the Isuzu Trooper Bighorn second generation that is the most rebadged car in history.
It was sold as the Chevrolet Trooper in South America, In Europe, it was sold as the Opel Monterey and Vauxhall Monterey.
It was later known as the Holden Jackaroo in Australia, Subaru Bighorn, Honda Horizon in Japan, and eventually became the Acura SLX as a more luxurious model.
Also as SsangYong Korando Family and as a Chinese also released the Trooper as a CKD model.
There are 10 different models making the Trooper the most rebadged vehicle in history.
