Opel could be the first to launch the Leapmotor B10 under its own brand, marking Stellantis’ first rebadged Chinese model

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/51624620

Opel may rebadge the Leapmotor B10 for Europe by 2026

Production could begin at Stellantis’ Zaragoza plant in Spain

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netMEnglish
    3·
    10日前

    Reusing a platform by another company and putting a modified body and different brand on it isn’t exactly a new thing.

    • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      10日前

      … and the European car industry is doing that since a long time.

      It is now like with a PC, if you buy one from, say, ALDI, you don’t expect ALDI do make the CPU or the motherboard themselves.

    • Richie Rich@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10日前

      Sure, this is true. Look at “MG” - was a British brand then an now it’s Chinese.

      But the Chinese could proudly use there own brands: BYD, Xpeng, Xiaomi. Why do they imitate ours?

      Customers should simply be aware that Opel isn’t a German brand anymore. This has nothing to do with German engineering. Unfortunately. - German brands are sold widely for cheap crap. Other examples: Dual, Grundig, Bose etc.

      We should only name something “Made in EU” when it’s really produced in EU and never sell out our identity to China.

      But that is, what happens.