They say politics makes strange bedfellows, and the same could be said of car companies. Sometimes pooling resources can be beneficial to all involved, while other times, the very act of survival might come with the alliance of a former competitor.

In the 1970s, American automakers allied with Japanese auto manufacturers to get back some market share lost to gas-guzzling cars when oil embargoes crippled the domestic industry. Badge engineering of a Mazda pickup, renamed the Currier, helped buy time until Ford could get the Ranger to market and, likewise, Chevy made use of a similar Isuzu, renamed the LUV while they engineered the S-10.

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