News Auto Features - Same Car, Dissimilar Names: Ford

Just similar compatriot General Motors, Ford Motor Company is no stranger to the words rebadging together with badge engineering. Throughout the years, Ford had owned numerous companies of dissimilar locations which way their expansive business has a hazard of utilizing 1 machine exactly wearing dissimilar names. While this affair is by tense, nosotros shall depository fiscal establishment gibe on which vehicles are products of badge engineering.

In lodge for a machine to hold upwards counted on this list, the vehicle must guide maintain a dissimilar refer using the same vanquish (exterior modifications are commonly done) exactly sold nether a dissimilar brand. And to avoid a super long list, nosotros would confine vehicles which were launched from 1990s together with above. Do guide maintain regime annotation the twelvemonth attain represents the entire vehicle business (including those of its twins) fifty-fifty if the master copy model was killed. In lodge to hold upwards listed, the base of operations vehicle must hold upwards from a Ford subsidiary together with thus a Toyota or Nissan badged Ford vehicle volition non build a cutting here.

Among the models from the Blue Oval fellowship that wore dissimilar names exactly are basically the same, allow us investigate.

Ford Capri-Mercury Capri

Ford Capri

Ford Crown Victoria-Mercury Grand Marquis

Ford Crown Victoria

Ford Edge-Lincoln MKX

Ford Edge

Ford Escape/Maverick-Mazda Tribute-Mercury Mariner (2001-2012)

Ford Escape

Ford Escort-Mercury Tracer (North America)

Ford Escort (NA)

Ford Escort-Volkswagen Pointer/Logus (Europe)

Ford Escort (EU)

Ford Expedition (includes extended length models)-Lincoln Navigator

Ford Expedition

Ford Explorer (pre-2011)-Lincoln Aviator-Mazda Navajo-Mercury Mountaineer

Ford Explorer

Ford F-150/Lobo-Lincoln Mark LT

Lincoln Mark KT

Ford Festiva-Kia Pride/Classic-Mazda 121-SAIPA (first generation Festiva)

Kia Pride

Ford Festiva/Aspire-Kia Avella (second generation Festiva)

Ford Aspire

Ford Fiesta/Fiesta Street-Mazda 121/Soho (fourth generation Fiesta)

Ford Fiesta

Ford Five Hundred-Mercury Montego

Ford Five Hundred

Ford Fusion/Mondeo (2014-current)-Lincoln MKZ/Zephyr-Mercury Milan (2006-2011)

Ford Fusion

Ford Freestar-Mercury Monterey

Ford Freestar

Ford Mondeo/Contour (1994-2000)-Mercury Mystique

Ford Mondeo

Ford Probe-Mazda MX-6

Ford Probe

Ford Ranger/Courier/Marathon-Mazda B Series/BT-50/Bravo/Fighter/Proceed/Magnum (both North America together with worldwide models, post-2012 models)