misbadging cars
Discussion
My guvnor bought this at auction yesterday. It's a lovely car; a well kept and well maintained front wheel drive 2.7tdi. Why a former keeper felt it necessary to add scabby old Quattro badges fore and aft is anyone's guess.
The rusty backplates with the front badge add a certain je ne sais quoi. Or don't. I'm not sure.
carlove said:
Was behind a 1 series today, thought something was wrong with it, then realised it had a '318' badge on. Why put a 3 series badge on a 1 series and why a 318 and not a more powerful model. I wonder if they were trying to get a 118 badge but failed.
I wonder if some scrote stole the original badge and they just wanted something 'similar' to cover up the damage?OK, it says 318 not 118, but at least it doesn't say M6 or something
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Never read this thread before but curious that recently I damaged a badge on the front of my car, I rang my local dealer to enquire about a replacement, and was staggered to learn it was something like 150 quid, all the dealer could think of as justification was it was priced so high to dissuade people from badging a car that wasn’t that particular model.
It did put me in mind of when Many moons ago I owned an SL55 and pulled up alongside ‘another’ 55 at the lights, except Something was wrong - exhaust iirc , turned out to be a 350 with a moody badge......I don’t see the point myself.
There’s a certain level of smug that comes with spotting a ‘misbadged’ car.
M cars seem to be a firm favourite although BMW haven’t done themselves any favours to M division with all the varying badges on Boggo cars.
eliotc said:
I saw a turd the other day with a Range Rover Evoke badge on it, or maybe it was a real Ranger Rover Evoke - I don't know, it's not easy to tell. How does one tell the difference? Does the Evoke feature anything that the turd doesn't?
I can think of a couple of things that the real Range Rover product features that whatever you saw doesn't.Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff