Anyone know why Isuzu made a pick-up exactly like an S-10 except a totally different shaped front end? Same bed, same dash, same steering wheel just re-branded. I'm about sure the same engine and just about everything. Also I notice Mazdas and Fords used to look identical as they are two totally different companys. One's American and one's a foreign vehicle. But the Ranger and the B-3000 looked alike just as well as the Escape and the Tribute look about the same. But man the S-10 and the copy cat from Isuzu is completely obvious when you see more the just the front and have a look inside looks exactly like the 94-98 S-10. Did General Moters sell out to them or just that one body?
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They both roll off the same assembly lines, just like ford rangers and the Mazda B series small trucks are made on the same assembly lines.
Izuzu built the Chevy Luv in the 70s, this collaboration has extended into the S-Series vehicles.
They didn't "Steal" anything. It was a joint venture, like the Geo's Chevy – Toyota. Toyota Corolla and Chevy Geo Prism are essential interchangeable parts. We've had both, with same model years, I've robbed parts to get the other one fixed. It makes going to the salvage yard for parts easier when trying to fix something in older models.
S10 was the model that came from Izuzu after the love, it is a bit larger body, the Luv we had was like driving a lumber wagon, the suspension on the S10 was substantially improved.
Ih8nmu… Your wrong.
GM has NEVER owned Isuzu… They did have a joint venture from 1971-2006 where GM held 49% of the stock, leaving Isuzu as the main stock holder of the Isuzu company
The Isuzu Hombre was a rebadged Chevrolet S-10/GMC Sonoma offered for sale in '96 through 2000
The Hombre was built at the GM plant in Shreveport, Louisiana
The Chevy S10, GMC S15, GMC Sonoma, and Isuzu Hombre are all the SAME truck
Just a little more info for you..
The predecessor of the S10 was the Chevy Luv truck, which was a rebadged Isuzu KB faster truck
GM has had alot of subsidiaries, and affiliates over the years
Frigidaire 1919-1979
Lotus 1986-1993
Saab 1990-2010
Fiat 2000-2005 (20%)
Suzuki 1981-2008 (20%)
Right now GM owns Buick, Cadillac, GMC, chevy, Vauxhall, Opel, Holden.
They have also owned MANY brands that they discontinued or sold off to another company like
Geo, Saturn, Hummer, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Daewoo
Same thing goes for Ford, they have/had joint ventures with other companies and own other brands.
they are same
this has been going n since well a longgggggggg time
chrysler and mitsubishi have been doing it for amost two decades or longer now also
such as the avenger and eclipse
this is a very common practice
The Isuzu IS a rebadged S-10, called the Hombre, at least from 1996 through 2000. The third sister truck was the GMC Sonoma, and all three trucks were made at the same plant – the differences were essentially some sheetmetal.
This was done as a cost-saving venture between Isuzu and GM, and is a common occurrence across a lot of manufacturers.
the practice of cross-branding is almost as old as cars themselves. GM owns Isuzu, so keeping the underpinnings of a vehicle, and most of the sheetmetal the same, but being able to multi-brand it is profitable. Before GM's downsizing when they had multiple brands under their name, 1 vehicle can be 5 as far as emblems. EX: Trailblazer, Envoy, Isuzu Ascender, Saab 9-7x, Buick Rainier are all the same.