inappropriate M badging

[briSk]

I know we have a thread someonewhere for this..but anyway.

there's a bloke who parks a current shape 7 series at the station. a decent car and all that. he's a middle aged bloke and looks very normal etc.

But he's out a big "M" on the back next to the tiny current spec "7" and has an "M70" numberplate.

i mean why? what goes through these people's minds..?

[LuS1fer]

Overcompensating.

[briSk]

LuS1fer said:

Overcompensating.

but the stupid thing is that it's made the car go from being a perfectly good car to a "council estate" e36...

[LuS1fer]

He may have bought it like that but there's still no excuse for not removing it.

[mat205125]

Diesel too?

[madbadger]

[Vvroom]

I agree.

Last Saturday I saw a chap on my road fitting a Halfords ///M-Power badge to the back of his 2009 320d.

Both Halfords and he should be shot.

[briSk]

mat205125 said:

Diesel too?

no idea the only time i have actually seen him he was already parked.

what sort of exhaust do i need to look for..?

[dibbly dobbler]

Bloke near me has an X5 - fine, but he's stuck an 'M' on it...

Yes you guessed it - the world's biggest MX5

[pilchardthecat]

Theres a black E60 round here that's debadged, apart from the after-market chrome "V6" on the boot lid.

I think that's somehow worse than an M badge.

I'll take a photo next time i see it, so you can all point and laugh.

[mat205125]

briSk said:

mat205125 said:

Diesel too?

no idea the only time i have actually seen him he was already parked.

what sort of exhaust do i need to look for..?

A dirty smoking one

[Fox-]

Here we go again, although actually I dont think there is an M Sport variant of the current 7 I doubt it will stop waves of PH'ers coming in to throw mud at people who have an M badge on an M Sport 3 Series.

[AB]

There's about 20 M badges on a 3 series M Sport. What's another one on the boot

Sad thing is, it probably fools the majority of people on the 7 in this instance.

Ah well, their car, their life I guess and it is definitely a subject done to absolute death.

I think BMW would regain some credibility if they went back to calling their sport models SPORT instead of M SPORT and left the 'M' for the M Division.

However, to the normal man, M Sport is so much cooler.

[bazking69]

M badge syndrome. The masses lap it up.

[RobM77]

Fox- said:

Here we go again, although actually I dont think there is an M Sport variant of the current 7 I doubt it will stop waves of PH'ers coming in to throw mud at people who have an M badge on an M Sport 3 Series.

I agree with your sentiment, but do M sport variants or even M equipped cars have 'M' on the back? I test drove a 130i M Sport the other day and it didn't.

[Fox-]

RobM77 said:

Fox- said:

Here we go again, although actually I dont think there is an M Sport variant of the current 7 I doubt it will stop waves of PH'ers coming in to throw mud at people who have an M badge on an M Sport 3 Series.

I agree with your sentiment, but do M sport variants or even M equipped cars have 'M' on the back? I test drove a 130i M Sport the other day and it didn't.

No, they dont, but they have it everywhere else so if the owner wants to bung the 13th and final M badge on the because they are chuffed to own an M Sport who cares?

It's only like having S-Line on the back of your A4 S-Line.

M3 on the back of a 320d is totally different, mind.

[LuS1fer]

To be fair, any petrolhead can spot a fake M car from a hundred miles away and these are the only people who really matter, aren't they? The remaining population wouldn't know what an M car was if it bit them on the ass so won't be impressed anyway. It's only relevant if it has the performance to back it up anyway so ultimately, the only fool and the only person fooling himself is the owner of the car.

Ultimately it's no worse than the tosspots who put "Turbo" on their cars and "Sport" on their obviously non-Sport Clios and R on their standard Civics.

I suppose I'll just have to be satisfied with my M-ustang and my M-ondeo and my M-anky Golf that replaced my M-azda and old M-ondeo.

[troc]

LuS1fer said:

Ultimately it's no worse than the tosspots who put "Turbo" on their cars.

heh - need to include Audi in this list as they are stupid enough to put V6T on the side of my S4 - there's no turbo under the bonnet!

I must get 'round to removing those badges, they look silly.

[GestapoWatch]

Fox- said:

RobM77 said:

Fox- said:

Here we go again, although actually I dont think there is an M Sport variant of the current 7 I doubt it will stop waves of PH'ers coming in to throw mud at people who have an M badge on an M Sport 3 Series.

I agree with your sentiment, but do M sport variants or even M equipped cars have 'M' on the back? I test drove a 130i M Sport the other day and it didn't.

No, they dont, but they have it everywhere else so if the owner wants to bung the 13th and final M badge on the because they are chuffed to own an M Sport who cares?

It's only like having S-Line on the back of your A4 S-Line.

M3 on the back of a 320d is totally different, mind.

I pretty much agree with this although another slight problem is I think the mis-informed (not on here) rant and rave about M being on the back of a car that is not an M3. So it does cause confusion.

Definitely agree though that having M3, M5 (or god forbid M7 ) along with fake intakes etc. on a car that isn't any of these is a bit retarded.

[Gizmo!]

I guy I used to know had the running gear from an E39 M5 put under his E38 7-series. Went very well indeed... I wonder why they don't make an M7 though? It's not like they care about protecting the brand any more, there's an X5M and an X6M...