Sort or M-Badge thread, but not quite.
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Tonight i was returning home from kayaking on the Avon when i got involved in a rather humourous situation.
Exiting Ringwood and onto the A31 i was flashed in by a white F10 with an M badge on the front grill. He was making good progress so I was a little unsure why he slowed to let me in rather than just pulling into the outsie lane and cracking on.
Because it looked like an M-esque F10 i slowed a little to let it overtake so i could get a beter look but he slowed too and started to drop back. By this point we are doing 50mph on a 70mph stretch. I slowed some more to force an overtake but still he refused.
I overtook a car in front and was soon followed in the outside lane by said F10. Taking the opportunity i slowed down to close on the car id just overtaken and to force the F10 past on the right but again he slowed, refusing to show his rear end.
I got to the roundabout near my house and was due to turn right so got in the right hand lane. He followed to block any hard braking i might have been planning and was quite close behind me as we neared the roundabout. Being the sneak i am i did a full 360 round the roundabout and back onto the road where M5 F10 was headed.
To my surprise, on his tailgate was not one, but two badges (left and right sight of the tailgate), a nice 520d badge on the right and a big fat ebay special M5 badge, in black on the left. As he saw my manouvre he was quick to make for home knowing he'd been rumbled. I didnt chase him, only laughed as he scurried away.
The thing is, the F10 was a really good looking car, obviously an M-sport model. But why stick the M5 badge on it, especially when you know youre going to cower away when confronted with the real thing.
Exiting Ringwood and onto the A31 i was flashed in by a white F10 with an M badge on the front grill. He was making good progress so I was a little unsure why he slowed to let me in rather than just pulling into the outsie lane and cracking on.
Because it looked like an M-esque F10 i slowed a little to let it overtake so i could get a beter look but he slowed too and started to drop back. By this point we are doing 50mph on a 70mph stretch. I slowed some more to force an overtake but still he refused.
I overtook a car in front and was soon followed in the outside lane by said F10. Taking the opportunity i slowed down to close on the car id just overtaken and to force the F10 past on the right but again he slowed, refusing to show his rear end.
I got to the roundabout near my house and was due to turn right so got in the right hand lane. He followed to block any hard braking i might have been planning and was quite close behind me as we neared the roundabout. Being the sneak i am i did a full 360 round the roundabout and back onto the road where M5 F10 was headed.
To my surprise, on his tailgate was not one, but two badges (left and right sight of the tailgate), a nice 520d badge on the right and a big fat ebay special M5 badge, in black on the left. As he saw my manouvre he was quick to make for home knowing he'd been rumbled. I didnt chase him, only laughed as he scurried away.
The thing is, the F10 was a really good looking car, obviously an M-sport model. But why stick the M5 badge on it, especially when you know youre going to cower away when confronted with the real thing.
Initially I would have thought the opposite... that THEY thought YOU are the rozzer. But if they have an F10 (albeit with a fake M badge) they probably know something or another about BMW's and would know that Plod would never operate an E60 M5.
Interesting account nevertheless. Did you get a picture/number plate?
Interesting account nevertheless. Did you get a picture/number plate?
bass2rez said:
That is the most strange behaviour. Do you think it was the false M5 badges on the back that made them act like that, and not want to overtake? My first thought in that situation would be that it was a copper, or is that a guilty conscience on my part..?
Defo wasn't a copper, just a middle aged man in a shirt and tie. I have actually been pulled by plod to check my cars rear as it happens. The manufacturers plates on the dog cage do reflect headlights so I suppose could be mistaken for plod at a distance. They browsed and let me go with no comment. I think the F10 driver was just embarrassed having been caught out.Edited by ecain63 on Thursday 2nd August 20:24
ecain63 said:
Defo wasn't a copper, just a middle aged man in a shirt and tie. I have actually been pulled by plod to check my cars rear as it happens. The manufacturers plates on the dog cage do reflect headlights so I suppose could be mistaken for plod at a distance. They browsed and let me go with no comment. I think the F10 driver was just embarrassed having been caught out.
I'd put it down to pride of the owner who clearly wants an M car to the point of kidding themselves they own an M car and when confronted with said M car cannot be rumbled by an M car owner who would look at them in a knowing and patronising way of "It's not an M car" Edited by ecain63 on Thursday 2nd August 20:24
Weird, but I don't get why drivers feel the need to "up" their cars? I wouldn't dream of putting M badges all over our E92 330 (it's not exactly slow 
).
And I really don't understand the need to put M badges on the front, there's a 630 around our way that is littered with M badges, including one in the grill.
Why?
).And I really don't understand the need to put M badges on the front, there's a 630 around our way that is littered with M badges, including one in the grill.
Why?
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