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A long, long time ago -- 1996 to be exact -- Toyota decided to brand engineer a GM vehicle for the Japanese domestic market. The vehicle they chose: the Chevrolet Cavalier. They even called it the Toyota Cavalier, and wanted to move 20,000 of them per year in Japan. They put them in dealer showrooms next to JDM cars, and, well... people didn't really buy them. By 2000, the Toyota Cavalier was mort.

And while their loss is not exactly your gain, it might mean you can have some fun with rabbits and hats. GM made Toyota Cavalier parts, including Toyota badges, for the car, and has boxes of the stuff at its warehouse in Lansing, Michigan. If you can get a parts manager to fulfill your order -- overseas-only parts are normally red-flagged for U.S. domestic use due to DOT issues -- then you can get a Toyota badge wrapped in official GM packaging. Cue the Ripley's Believe It or Not theme music...

[Source: Automobile]

Buy Toyota badges... from GM originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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While most observers in the slow-motion Delphi bankruptcy train wreck assume that General Motors will step in to help bail out its struggling former subsidiary company (and its ex-GM workers), apparently there are limits to GM's largesse.

In the latest development, Delphi reports that it was unable to persuade GM to forego planned price reductions in Delphi's supply contracts to its biggest customer. Delphi says the contracts are unprofitable, and has said that it wants to renegotiate the contracts or get out of them entirely.

GM had agreed to delay imposing the agreed-upon lower prices for the first quarter of the year to take some of the pressure off Delphi, but now wants Delphi to start living up to its contracts.

[Source: Reuters]

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