Tuesday, Mar 30, 2010 at 20:15
I'll try one last time to educate you guys.
The Holden Rodeo was a rebadged Isuzu, as was the Jackaroo. No argument there.
In early 2009, GM and Isuzu decided to cease their joint venture partnership and as Isuzu had naming rights to the Rodeo badge, GM could not use it for their new model.
In the US they already had a vehicle called the GM Colorado and decided to use the same badge for their new 4WD vehicle.
A decision was made by GM to release a right hand drive vehicle for the non-US market and the manufacturing was to be done at the GM Rayong Plant in Thailand.
Thus the RHD Colorado was born.
As Isuzu no longer had a manufacturing plant building a chassis cab type vehicle (they had already scrapped the Jackaroo platform a few years previously) they approached GM and entered into a contractual agreement for the GM Plant at Rayong, Thailand to supply a rebadged Colorado which Isuzu named the D-Max.
Now, it may be that GM source some components from Isuzu as
well as a myriad of other suppliers. The source of engines, drive trains,
suspension, etc. would come from many suppliers that GM have contractual agreements with.
I am not aware of the source of the petrol and diesel engines in the Colorado range. They may be "in-house", or provided by another supplier. (such as Isuzu)
The overriding fact though, is that the Holden Colorado is manufactured by GM Thailand and The Isuzu D-Max is a re-badged version of this vehicle, with possibly some cosmetic changes.
Hopefully I will convince the majority of folk reading this reply into ignoring non-factual "guesswork" from one or two individuals that simply don't know what they are talking about.
Bill.
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