When did GM start rebadging Fords?

[ToniCipriani]

Pontiac... Monterey??!! When did they get a rebadged Windstar?

http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/bymodel/200..._Monterey.shtml

[Flybrian]

Because that's a government publication.

[Sixty8panther]

I'm going to get into my 1968 Ford Camaro* and dive down there right now and kick some ass. * it's got to be a Ford since it has racing stripes right?

[mustang84]

Random spasm of thought, but Monterey is such a cool name for a car. Why did Ford put it on a minivan??

[HarleyEarl]

Many publications and tv shows make errors like this. Yesterday a news show was doing a retrospective on cars and their sex appeal in movies. They covered a variety of movies and identified the cars correctly until a movie with Natalie Wood, and they show what is so obviously a 49 era Mercury, which is an iconic car. The narrator identified it as an ugly Chevrolet, but the way Natalie was leaning against it and her co-star stabbing the tire with a knife by her leg was very suggestive and sexy.

[capriceman]

lol

[balthazar]

...a movie with Natalie Wood, and they show what is so obviously a 49 era Mercury, which is an iconic car.  The narrator identified it as an ugly Chevrolet, but the way Natalie was leaning against it and her co-star stabbing the tire with a knife by her leg was very suggestive and sexy.

That's Rebel Without a Cause from 1955, starring James Dean. Not only is the car iconic, unquestionably the movie is too. Jackass 'journalism' at it's best. Makes me want to drop a '49 Merc off a jack onto the torsos of these journalists, so they can scream up at the Mercury hood emblem and learn something worth knowing for a change.

[LosAngeles]

Makes me want to drop a '49 Merc off a jack onto the torsos of these journalists, so they can scream up at the Mercury hood emblem and learn something worth knowing for a change.

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That's a violent visual....

[daves87rs]

Yeah.... :blink:

[VenSeattle]

Eh... Pontiac Montana Pontiac Monterey Simple mistake... :unsure:

[ToniCipriani]

This is where you are wrong. There IS a page for Pontiac Montana on the same year.

http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/bymodel/200...c_Montana.shtml

[balthazar]

That's a violent visual....

Yeah.... :blink:

Really?? And I was going to add 'spit blood' in with 'scream up at'...
Guess this sh!t makes me angrier than I thought... :unsure:

[VenSeattle]

This is where you are wrong. There IS a page for Pontiac Montana on the same year.

http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/bymodel/200...c_Montana.shtml

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Kind of funny that the stats don't match the Mercury Monterey or Pontiac Montana.