Wikipedia says the Metro is a rebadged Suzuki Cultus

[Xist]

As I recall, I always read the Swift was a rebadged Metro, but

The first generation was a project begun by General Motors as the M-car. When they realized that the project was not going to be profitable enough, the entire unfinished design was sold to Suzuki in return for a five per cent stake in the company. Suzuki completed the design and development work and put the car on sale from October 1983 in the Japanese market, as the Cultus. This is also why the car's design was such a natural fit in the General Motors lineup, with a clear GM corporate look. The model was also exported worldwide by Suzuki and assembled by a number of General Motors franchises, often undergoing badge engineering. The first-generation Swifts all share the SA model code prefix and was Suzuki's first earnest entry into a class of car with larger dimensions and engines than of the kei class Suzuki Fronte.

So, Chevrolet designed it, and Suzuki renamed it, but since Suzuki manufactured it, technically Chevrolet rebadged it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_Cultus

Chevrolet ended the Metro in 2001 and when Daewoo closed most of their dealerships outside of South Korea and GM bought them, Daewoo replaced the Lanos with the Kalos, which Chevy called the Aveo.

The Aveo was introduced for its market debut in a 60-second television advertisement that first appeared on New Year's Eve 2003, created by the firm of Campbell-Ewald, directed by Michael Bay and featuring the song Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf. The advertisement was titled "An American Revolution, Car Carrier" and featured six yet to be introduced cars and trucks boarding a car carrier as it traversed the United States. It featured the Aveo descending the Twin Peaks of San Francisco and making an airborne leap highly reminiscent of Steve McQueen's Ford Mustang in the movie Bullitt, before boarding the car carrier.

This sounded awesome and I have been meaning to look up that song for a while! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Aveo_(T200)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa3GydPuyLY

[freebeard]

Thanks! That's an awesome ad. Who did it first? James Bond? Knightrider?

The 1990 Metro XFi is my first Chevrolet and first Canadian manufactured car.

[Xist]

I don't know and when I tried to look for it, I couldn't find anything relevant.
It seemed like you weren't supposed to recognize the song at first and then you catch something familiar and another and another.
I think that I would rather hear the normal version of the song with engine revving.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by Xist

So, Chevrolet designed it, and Suzuki renamed it, but since Suzuki manufactured it, technically Chevrolet rebadged it?

GM holding some stake of Suzuki back in the day doesn't make a Suzuki design become a Chevrolet design, despite the rebadges of the Suzuki Cultus/Swift in countries where it was sold as a Chevrolet. Just like the Ford Lased, which had been rebadged Escort in the USDM for a while, was still a Mazda design despite Ford having been a controlling stakeholder of Mazda for a while.