Sales Assessments, More Like Guitar Manufacturers or Ripped-Off Products?

This is gonna be fun!
In 2005, GM produced four mini-vans known as the Buick Terraza, Chevrolet Uplander, Pontiac Montana SV6 and Saturn Relay.  These four cars were exactly the same, with the brand logos being the only differentiators.
Today, some Luxury car companies dress up the cars from their primary brands as Toyota is known to do with its Lexuses, Nissan with its Infinities, Honda with its Acuras, and Ford with its Lincolns.  But we all know this. 
What about something you might not know?  With Eddie Van Halen’s passing yesterday, I was thinking about great guitarists and that led me to who actually manufactured your well-known Japanese guitar brand?
And then there are the cheap Chinese rip-offs of quality American products.
When it comes to sales assessments, things are also not what they appear to be.  Take for example, the FinXS Extended DiSC which, at first glance, appears to have