misbadging cars

[ajprice]

Pericoloso said:

More Brabus silliness.

when did they start doing vans ?

They do exist. Special order and no price given.

https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/mercedes/sprinter/88...

[Maracus]

Thornaby said:

The Golfs did used to have “GTTDi” badges.

On a MK4.

[kamilb1998]

A few I've been meaning to post that have been on my phone for a while. The Evoque appears to be sporting a "3.4S" badge off a 60s Jaguar, the Polo is very tacky and the A class is just a bit bizarre. Perhaps an A180 CDI was considered too common by its owner.

[Section 8]

Dear Lord I saw something today that would make Rolls and Royce do a coffin cartwheel.Coming towards me as I was driving along was a Kia Magentis. I know! Bad enough already but the elderly fella driving had shoddily glued on the end of his bonnet ....... The Spirit of Ecstasy.

As it trundled on by and I stared like someone who had just seen Elvis at the bus stop I vowed to one day get proof of this mobile Unicorn and post it here for all to see. The hunt is on.

[mercedeslimos]

2172cc said:

Should only have GT on the back

That one is a 1.9 TDI, and the GT badge was thrown on.

Only the 2.0 got GT badges here in the Republic.

Turners Cross Motors are long gone, now a Mercedes main dealer.

[650spider]

[anonymous-user]

Couldn’t get a pic as I was driving but I saw a 1st gen facelift Alhambra with a wonky 3.0 TDI badge on it yesterday. Happy to be corrected but I don’t think SEAT have ever had the 3.0 TDI in any car let alone their MPV, just seems like a stupid up-badge to me as it’s not impressive even if it was true!

[threadlock]

650spider said:

They should be seizing whoever did that pisspoor Photoshop.

[George29]

[Lazadude]

The Vauxhall corsa 640 to the power of 1.2?

[illmonkey]

M7 spotted, must be a prototype!

[lcs_turbo]

Found this whilst routing through some old photos

[donkmeister]

lcs_turbo said:

Found this whilst routing through some old photos

Amazingly, there are a few Corsas out there with turbo V6s... but I suspect this was not one of them!!!

One of the big Vauxhall tuners (Courtenay?) used to do an N/A V6 swap for the Nova and Corsa, by all accounts the handling is terrible due to the sub-optimal weight distribution.

[BrabusMog]

illmonkey said:

M7 spotted, must be a prototype!

I was going to say that BMW do make an M760Li (my boss has one) but did the standard number plate check and saw this is a misbadged diesel. The diesel is still a really nice, desirable car...how insecure to you have to be to turn your decent car into a misbadged fakery?!

[eddharris]

Thales said:

WRONG.

There is an RS Q8, saw one earlier today but I am in Canada.

[Onehp]

A real mk V Golf R32 with a big '4X4' badge on the boot. Driver looked like an older farmer.

Why?

Edited by Onehp on Monday 2nd March 11:18

[churchie2856]

I modified my brother's BMW 318 ti compact. He drove around for three months before I finally cracked and pointed it out. The tit had no idea.

Edited by churchie2856 on Tuesday 21st April 23:22

[DoubleD]

Ha ha thats funny

[benzinbob]

Onehp said:

A real mk V Golf R32 with a big '4X4' badge on the boot. Driver looked like an older farmer.

Why?

Edited by Onehp on Monday 2nd March 11:18

Let’s his sheep know he ain’t fking about

[Jaguar steve]

churchie2856 said:

I modified my brother's BMW 318 ti compact. He drove around for three months before I finally cracked and pointed it out. The tit had no idea.

Edited by churchie2856 on Tuesday 21st April 23:22

A mates 205 GTi had the middle and last letters chopped out of the badge on the rear hatch and stuck back on. No idea who by...