misbadging cars

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AdeTuono

6,898 posts

215 months

Friday 7th October 2022
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Pan Pan Pan said:
Could it be that the Passat owner also has a 911 turbo and wanted to advertise the fact? Some people do in fact have more than one car.
I doubt anyone has done that, ever.

WarrenB

1,946 posts

106 months

Friday 7th October 2022
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Pan Pan Pan said:
Could it be that the Passat owner also has a 911 turbo and wanted to advertise the fact? Some people do in fact have more than one car.
I hope he has a Passat badge on his 911 in that case.

TopTrump

2,824 posts

162 months

Friday 7th October 2022
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Jon556 said:
A dad who thinks he’s a right laugh.
Hopefully he is secure enough to not give a flying turd what some saddos on the internet think?

lord trumpton

6,662 posts

114 months

Friday 7th October 2022
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Stick Legs said:
Except the 325i Sport never got one on the front originally either.

It’s so endemic with BMW’s now I reckon that 99% of people just don’t care or notice.

The 325i Sport is a great car, arguably as worthy of an M badge as the M535i E28 but that’s still no excuse.

Would be sorely tempted to de-badge a genuine M car if I had one incase someone assumed I was the sort of tosser who would badge up a 520d.

If you are even remotely interested in cars a real M car stands out.

No badge required.
My second car at 18 years old was an e30 316 (1800 carburettor engine) I put a 'twin tailpipe' ANSA backbox on it and stuck a 325i badge in place of the 316 boxedin

I just cruised everywhere to keep up the scam laugh

CoolHands

16,765 posts

183 months

Friday 7th October 2022
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TopTrump said:
Jon556 said:
A dad who thinks he’s a right laugh.
Hopefully he is secure enough to not give a flying turd what some saddos on the internet think?
Hmmmm coincidence? I think not!


TopTrump

2,824 posts

162 months

Saturday 8th October 2022
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CoolHands said:
Hmmmm coincidence? I think not!

smile Nice one

AmyRichardson

440 posts

30 months

Saturday 8th October 2022
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ajprice said:


hehe
It's hard to dislike that.

I'd like to think it's a tongue-in-cheek reference to Porsche origins / pork-boy baiting - but maybe not.

TopTrump

2,824 posts

162 months

Saturday 8th October 2022
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Stick Legs said:


What fresh hell is this?

Take a relatively handsome recent BMW & add the lookalikey ugly grille from the new models,
‘Because it look like a new one innit’

No, it really doesn’t!
Functionality aside (like does it even let air in) they have taken the absolute weakest area in modern car design and made it front of house. It's clear designers don't really know what to do with the redundancy of the rad/ grill and so they keep this shadow of once was. Ghastly looking thing.

80quattro

1,701 posts

183 months

Tuesday 11th October 2022
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Just for sh!ts and giggles, I have misbadged my Merc, and added a sticker of a religious flavour. Its proved somewhat entertaining thus far.




Jon556

431 posts

14 months

Tuesday 11th October 2022
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TopTrump said:
Jon556 said:
A dad who thinks he’s a right laugh.
Hopefully he is secure enough to not give a flying turd what some saddos on the internet think?
Don’t put yourself down like that.

Horsey McHorseface

2,121 posts

172 months

Wednesday 12th October 2022
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The very rare Megan Dylan Charlotte Phoebe edition, SsangYong Turismo.


Matt Cup

2,788 posts

92 months

Wednesday 7th December 2022
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Bentley Mugen 300c

CG2020UK

736 posts

28 months

Friday 13th January
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mradam said:
A performance Cabriolet as well lol

Stick Legs

3,558 posts

153 months

Friday 13th January
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Couldn’t get a pic as I was driving:

Range Rover L405 on the M25.

Old Rover style V8 badge on tailgate.

Now as much as I love the SDV8 Range Rover, and as much as I love the type face & whole late 60’s design aesthetic of the Rover V8 badge…

They were never used on any Range Rover.

IIRC they were only a P6 & MGB GT V8 thing. I have seen them on SD1 V8’s but not sure if that was an official thing.



LHB

7,868 posts

131 months

Tuesday 14th February
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Interesting…


ambuletz

10,322 posts

169 months

Wednesday 15th February
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pinched this one from the badly modified cars thread.

ferrari ford ka on ebay



"I was told it was made on the Ferrari production line in Italy but I can’t verify that."

forzaminardi

2,230 posts

175 months

Wednesday 15th February
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Yes Ferrari definitely built this Ford Ka in Maranello. Everyone knows that.

TarquinMX5

1,589 posts

68 months

Wednesday 15th February
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Stick Legs said:
Couldn’t get a pic as I was driving:

Range Rover L405 on the M25.

Old Rover style V8 badge on tailgate.

Now as much as I love the SDV8 Range Rover, and as much as I love the type face & whole late 60’s design aesthetic of the Rover V8 badge…

They were never used on any Range Rover.

IIRC they were only a P6 & MGB GT V8 thing. I have seen them on SD1 V8’s but not sure if that was an official thing.


They were fitted on the front wings of the later (1980 model-onwards) Series 1 3500s but only until the arrival of the Series 2 which didn't have them.

legless

1,508 posts

128 months

Wednesday 15th February
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ambuletz said:
pinched this one from the badly modified cars thread.

ferrari ford ka on ebay



"I was told it was made on the Ferrari production line in Italy but I can’t verify that."
rofl

Nice tenuous link there

Pininfarina's Bairo Canavese plant used for the StreetKa also built such exotics as the Ford Focus CC, the Mitsubishi Colt CZC and the Shogun Pinin.