misbadging cars

[surveyor_101]

Thesprucegoose said:

i hate stereotyping but thought mobility and was right.

Yea so its a lease, its an ST Line so they have gone with the ST badge which I sort of understand but the TYPE R as well!!!

[DoubleD]

Fastdruid said:

samwhite said:

Wouldn't be surprised if this has been posted...

Saw one on the M25, 7 series BMW with

Massively over tinted windows (including the fronts, but done VERY poorly)
Tinted number plate with illegal italic font (one for the crappy plates thread)

And the best part....

In chrome letters across the boot lid....

BIG YVES 7 SERIES (took up the whole lid edge....

oh, apart from the batman symbol that had crept in there somehow as well!)

HTH

Is that a chav plate as well?

[hogsonmaman]

Not the worlds worst...

[br d]

[monarodom]

DoubleD said:

Is that a chav plate as well?

It's Yves Ma-Kalambay. Was the keeper at Wycombe and coaches at Chelsea's training ground in Cobham...was a youth player years ago.

Can confirm the bloke is massive.

[DoubleD]

monarodom said:

DoubleD said:

Is that a chav plate as well?

It's Yves Ma-Kalambay. Was the keeper at Wycombe and coaches at Chelsea's training ground in Cobham...was a youth player years ago.

Can confirm the bloke is massive.

Lovely. But is it a chav plate?

[monarodom]

DoubleD said:

Lovely. But is it a chav plate?

Sorry thought it quoted the picture too. I believe so!

[DoubleD]

monarodom said:

DoubleD said:

Lovely. But is it a chav plate?

Sorry thought it quoted the picture too. I believe so!

Ah fair enough. I didnt want to say it was as I think they use those plates in Jersey?

[WarrenB]

br d said:

I love the 320.0 M3 Tuning. Not much gives it away from a standard shoddy looking 320 admittedly, fuel cap door is a giveaway as are the LED brake lights, but as it's more than likely tanking it down the motorway using all of the 320.0 power you're not likely to see them.

[Grindle]

I saw a 66-plate BMW X5 M50D with 2.0D rear badge at a car meet.
Fairly sure it was the top of the range 376 bhp version i asked the owner to make sure i was right. Well i was and i wasn't. It was an M50D but it had 435 bhp courtesy of DMS Automotive.
Asked what the reasoning behind the rear badge change was, he said that Gary-boys in their hot hatches hate it when a 70 year old bloke in a 2 litre diesel 4x4 wastes them regularly.
He's ageing well!

[Ari]

hogsonmaman said:

Not the worlds worst...

But possibly the world's most pointless...

[alexpie90]

Don't know why it's rotated but here's an "S7 Supercharged TDI Quattro" complete with rally mud flaps

[67Dino]

Grindle said:

I saw a 66-plate BMW X5 M50D with 2.0D rear badge at a car meet.
Fairly sure it was the top of the range 376 bhp version i asked the owner to make sure i was right. Well i was and i wasn't. It was an M50D but it had 435 bhp courtesy of DMS Automotive.
Asked what the reasoning behind the rear badge change was, he said that Gary-boys in their hot hatches hate it when a 70 year old bloke in a 2 litre diesel 4x4 wastes them regularly.
He's ageing well!

I like the idea of ‘down badging’. That’s cool

[PixelpeepS3]

67Dino said:

Grindle said:

I saw a 66-plate BMW X5 M50D with 2.0D rear badge at a car meet.
Fairly sure it was the top of the range 376 bhp version i asked the owner to make sure i was right. Well i was and i wasn't. It was an M50D but it had 435 bhp courtesy of DMS Automotive.
Asked what the reasoning behind the rear badge change was, he said that Gary-boys in their hot hatches hate it when a 70 year old bloke in a 2 litre diesel 4x4 wastes them regularly.
He's ageing well!

I like the idea of ‘down badging’. That’s cool

agreed. Down badging is for heros. i remember the 700hp+ civic where they left the 1.4s badge on

[Pericoloso]

Ari said:

hogsonmaman said:

Not the worlds worst...

But possibly the world's most pointless...

As the car IS a 500 ,why badge an SL as a CLS ?

Just couldn't get my head round that.

[Wizard2]

p1stonhead said:

raceboy said:

8bit said:

in which case it's not misbadged at all.

Just 'misexhausted'.

Seems crazy to spend that money (above the relative peanuts of a fake badge) for the four exhausts doesn’t it?!

I saw something similar on a 320d recently - badged fine but it had four exhausts. I really don't understand why.

[Palmers]

I saw a Q7 the other day with a 6.0 badge on the back. Got excited thinking it was the rare V12 TDI. Turns out it was a 3.0....

I left my 250D badge on the back on my superturbodiesel converted W124. Even though it was 562whp lol

[Bear-n]

Don't know if this belongs here:



(It is a 320d)

[67Dino]

In fairness, this is an MR2 based replica 355 so by definition is misbadged. But given it’s manual and targa, why put the F1 spider badge on the inside? Rhetorical question...

[anonymous-user]

Bear-n said:

Don't know if this belongs here:


(It is a 320d)

That looks like how it can come from the Factory.

Just rear badge aftermarket, but it is a M Performance kit.

Edited by Thesprucegoose on Thursday 1st August 21:35