Bentley badge on a Chrysler 300C!

[SC7]

Ari said:

wkers.

[fluffnik]

Ari said:

Hmmmm....

Fit fake badge, hide with masking tape.

[Jim the Sunderer]

Ari said:

Hmmmm....

Surely the often quoted Trades Descriptions Act would apply to this?

Just Bentleys.

Edited by Jim the Sunderer on Monday 13th September 23:38

[CDP]

SC7 said:

Ari said:

wkers.

Depends: If it's a friends car they are borrowing for the day to save a little money because all they wanted was a large clean car for the bride to arrive in good condition, fair enough.

If it's a wedding hire firm then it's particularly horrid but not really any worse than five grand of ropey Silver Shadow badly sprayed white.

[vit4]

Should put it in the 'stupid things non-petrolheads say', but a friend was convinced one of those was a Bentley (with the badges of course, it had Bentley badges so it was a Bentley). Normally I don't give a monkey's about people who don't know about cars; they just see them in a different light to myself. But this really, really grated me.

[gary75]

epic thread!

i've always wanted to see that in a car.

[Ari]

fluffnik said:

Ari said:

Hmmmm....

Fit fake badge, hide with masking tape.

Curiously, the badge under the tape was a Superman logo. Go figure.



The Chrysler 300C badges were present and correct on the back of the car so I can't imagine they're trying to pass it off as a real Bentley, more hoping no one will look too closely and draw their own conclusions perhaps...

I've also had a look on their site, seems to be just Bentley's mentioned on there, as the name suggests.

http://www.bentley-hire.co.uk/home_page.html

My best guess is that perhaps they offer it to wedding couples as a way of transporting the bridesmaids more cheaply, but with 95% of the congregation assuming it's a second Bentley.

Does rather reek of "fake Rolex" though...

[Ari]

CDP said:

Depends: If it's a friends car they are borrowing for the day to save a little money because all they wanted was a large clean car for the bride to arrive in good condition, fair enough.

If it's a wedding hire firm then it's particularly horrid but not really any worse than five grand of ropey Silver Shadow badly sprayed white.

Judging by the way it was parked and the sign-age, I'm thinking it belonged to the wedding hire company. Don't know that for certain though.

[Rodimus]

I just tested the mrs to see if she knew what the car was. I thought she knew nothing about cars, was surprised to see she knew it was a Chrysler and laughed about the bentley badge. I under estimated her

Ps. Yes she made me type this

[Silent1]

inkiboo said:

This wker parked outside the house on Sunday





Complete with 22 inch black wheels with the standard discs so the space between wheels and discs looked utterly stupid.

Why do people do this?

Hold on, rolls royce badge on the back, bentley on the front?
in the middle?

[k-ink]

Not read past the first page, but just to say a tacky herbert is driving a "B" badged Chrysler around. I feel like writing the real name on the back with a marker pen

[rswift]

So last year I bought a Bentley Turbo for £4k, (midlife crisis)....all MOT'd & taxed for ages. Drove it around for a couple of months got it out of my system,sold it for a modest profit.

I don't think you can buy a decent 300C for that money, so you may as well get a Bentley !

I looking at a £3k one at the moment.....with loads of T & T ...and classic insurance is about £150 a year, bargain !

[Louisa911]

I saw one of these parked up at Cribbs Causeway Asda a few months back, Bentley badged 300C- pretty sure in the back there was an advertisement for Bentley wedding hire too.

[NorthernBoy]

vpr said:

I think you're all very sad but I'm sure you all have perfect taste in the choice of your transport.

You don't need to have perfect taste to be able to mock such ridiculous barging, though.

It's as bad as when you see people proudly sporting a hooded top with "Oxford University" printed on it, and wondering why people are giving them funny looks.

[Ari]

Louisa911 said:

I saw one of these parked up at Cribbs Causeway Asda a few months back, Bentley badged 300C- pretty sure in the back there was an advertisement for Bentley wedding hire too.

The photos above were taken at a hotel just outside Bristol, so quite likely the same company.

[Dr Doofenshmirtz]

I saw a white 300C coming off the M40 into Uxbridge this very morning with the proper Bentley badge kit.
Yes, I resurrected this just to let you know they are still out there.

[slippery]

Another resurrection here! I was waiting for my wife in a supermarket car park and happened to be parked opposite one of these Bentley badged horrors. I wound my window down and in the space of five minutes heard three couples walk past who took the trouble to point it out and were suitably impressed. One even said "wow, you don't expect to see one of those parked here" (Morrisons)! So it obviously works more often than you'd expect, which I find very strange now that the 300C is such a common sight on the roads these days. I just wonder what kind of person actually drives one and how they respond to people who either directly take the piss because they know what it is, or who actually start talking to them as if it's a real one. I mean, at what point would they admit it wasn't, or would they just go along with it?

[y2blade]

Does it matter?

[slippery]

y2blade said:

Does it matter?

Probably not. I'm annoyed that I was getting annoyed. I wanted to ask the couples that were wowed by it what they thought they had just seen. I wanted to ask the driver what motivated him to stick Bentley badges all over his Chrysler, including one that actually said BENTLEY in a really crappy font. Sorry if my post offended you Y2, it"s not your car is it?

[boobles]

So it bothered you that much that you decided to google it just to show everyone what a Bentley badge looks like?

Get a life dude & worry about your own life & not what anyone else is doing.