[quote W8F879ANIIQYRZ19] Question: has a badge engineer vehicle ever outsold their original when they went head to head in the same market? [/quote] For what it's worth, the Austin 1100/1300 outsold the previously released Morris at about 1 million to just over 700,000. About 125,000 MGs and 100,000 Wolseley, Rileys and Vanden Plas can be added to that as well as those built in Australia, Spain and Italy etc which would bring it up to well over 2 million. Not bad for a bit of badge engineering! Having owned a Vanden Plas Princess 1300 , I was glad of its more humble background, which made it easy to get parts and to eventually restore. It was a sheer delight.