7: Chevy LUV
With all of the resources at its deposal, you’d think that GM could have innovated their own compact pickup truck. But originally, all consumers had access to was a rebadged Isuzu that was called the LUV. While this truck proved to be initially popular it tarnished GM’s reputation for trucks and drove buyers to Japanese pickups instead. The LUV had some unique features and a very rare off-road model, but the bones of the vehicle were Isuzu.

Later on Chevrolet released the S-10, which proved to be a much better compact truck. But Chevy still can’t distance itself from the history that is the LUV. The truck had a lot of drawbacks and at the time it was almost unheard of for a domestic automaker to sell an import. Nevertheless, the LUV managed to trudge on for quite some time.