The two sides of LeMans

That's right—today's silly old ads post involves not one, but two (!!!) commercials. The first is for the Pontiac LeMans, circa 1988.

And the second is for the ... Daewoo LeMans. That's right—these are the same damned car. In an effort to combat the evil subcompact imports, GM rebadged tiny Daewoos as Pontiacs and resold them here in the US. I'm amused by the Pontiac LeMans wikipedia entry as the Daewoo car sits as a sort of embarrassing footnote (under the 1988 section heading).

But I guess the best part about all of this is that the Daewoo LeMans is essentially a rebadged Maepsy!