http://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/ Autoblog Comments for USA Today discovers the poseur art of rebadging http://www.autoblog.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.autoblog.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/Nov 15th 2006 10:42AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/Nov 15th 2006 10:53AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/Nov 15th 2006 10:53AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/My dad has a 1953 Chevrolet "Impala". I don't even know much about the car, but IIRC, the Impala model did not come out until later, so his car is a stylistic interpretation of what a 53 Impala would look like if such a thing exisited (paint scheme, badges, other things).

This type of thing can go two ways. Either a "tribute", or a "mockery".]]>Nov 15th 2006 11:00AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/
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Then after I bought the car I actually had a GM parts guy give me a hard time when I went to replace the Iroc-Z badge for the glove compartment. He said "Is that really an Iroc or are you just making it look like one"?

My answer to him was that it had better be an Iroc since I just bought it from your dealership! No reply.]]>Nov 15th 2006 11:07AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/Nov 15th 2006 11:12AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/Nov 15th 2006 11:24AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/Nov 15th 2006 11:28AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/
Try at least six to 10 years old--so old car folks hardly even talk this any more. ]]>Nov 15th 2006 11:29AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/
You know what they say... badges give you at least 10 extra horsepower.]]>Nov 15th 2006 11:32AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/
Eh, I guess my point is that while stunts like this are almost always blatantly obvious to us car folks they are easily passed off on most of our friends/family.

The best rebadging I've seen is a ISUZU Vehicross in Louisville KY with Maserati badges. The guy did it as a joke but had some of us wondering about it for a bit since the Vehicross was already kind of oddball. Well look at the time, I gotta run out to the mailbox and see if the Lotus' new Ferrari badge has shown up yet ;)]]>Nov 15th 2006 11:41AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/
I'm personally a fan of sleepers anyway, so I think that's more the direction I'd go if I'm ever in a position to own a car like that.]]>Nov 15th 2006 11:44AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/Nov 15th 2006 11:55AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/
But if others want to "up badge" I have no problem with it. After all the world is full of posers in all aspects of life, not just cars. When I find a poser, I laugh to myself and go about my day.]]>Nov 15th 2006 12:09PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/Nov 15th 2006 12:21PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/Nov 15th 2006 12:22PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/Nov 15th 2006 12:22PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/Nov 15th 2006 12:27PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/15/usa-today-discovers-the-poseur-art-of-rebadging/Nov 15th 2006 12:31PM