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Title: Cars with fake badges
Post by: Mikehamid on 06 November 2013, 23:04
Hey guys. Today I saw a Citroen Jumpy with a Volkswagen badge on the back and was wondering what is the funniest fake badging anyone has ever seen, or photographed? Unfortunately I didn't get a photo, but I have added some from Google searching it.

(http://chivethethrottle.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/fake-500-dxcmskziwtmk.jpg?w=500&h=333)
(http://chivethethrottle.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/fake-500-fk4sbb0owtmk.jpg)
(http://chivethethrottle.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/fake-500-05022010139wtmk.jpg)
Title: Re: Cars with fake badges
Post by: Thom89 on 07 November 2013, 02:58
Golf badge on a mk3!
Well you asked  :grin:

Thom
Title: Re: Cars with fake badges
Post by: dragonfly on 07 November 2013, 08:29
Saw an X5 where the owner had put a M badge on it.  Problem was it read 'MX5'!

Seen Smart cars with Merc badges on them as well.
Title: Re: Cars with fake badges
Post by: VW BUSH on 07 November 2013, 17:34
Golf badge on a mk3!
Well you asked  :grin:

Thom

Come on Thom play nice, GTI on a 3 is another story :grin:
Title: Re: Cars with fake badges
Post by: T_J_G on 07 November 2013, 19:32
I saw a Toyota iQ with an Aston Martin badge on  :huh:
Title: Re: Cars with fake badges
Post by: George k on 07 November 2013, 19:55
I saw a Toyota iQ with an Aston Martin badge on  :huh:
That's because Aston gave them away free with cars  :smiley: or you could buy one for about 35000
Title: Re: Cars with fake badges
Post by: dragonfly on 07 November 2013, 20:02
Was it this car: http://www.astonmartin.com/cars/aston-martin-cygnet
Title: Re: Cars with fake badges
Post by: CraigBest on 07 November 2013, 20:14
Used to be a merc clk convertible near my old house with M power badges.
Title: Re: Cars with fake badges
Post by: dubber36 on 08 November 2013, 15:04
I saw a Toyota iQ with an Aston Martin badge on  :huh:

Aston Martin 'built' that car in order to bring the average emissions of the cars they produced down, or to reduce their carbon footprint. Something like that anyway.
Title: Re: Cars with fake badges
Post by: kodkod.84 on 08 November 2013, 15:51
I saw a Toyota iQ with an Aston Martin badge on  :huh:

So you are paying £25k extra for leather interior and a fancy paint job  :shocked:
Title: Re: Cars with fake badges
Post by: Wayne on 08 November 2013, 16:33
I saw a Toyota iQ with an Aston Martin badge on  :huh:

Aston Martin 'built' that car in order to bring the average emissions of the cars they produced down, or to reduce their carbon footprint. Something like that anyway.

Correct  :smiley: but it has now been axed due to poor sales.
Title: Re: Cars with fake badges
Post by: dubber36 on 08 November 2013, 17:58
I saw a Toyota iQ with an Aston Martin badge on  :huh:

So you are paying £25k extra for leather interior and a fancy paint job  :shocked:

If you can afford to buy and run a new Aston Martin, £35k for a run around just for the hell of it will be pocket money. Properly rich people live in a totally different world to the rest of us.
Title: Re: Cars with fake badges
Post by: weazgti on 13 November 2013, 08:07
Surely sticking porsche handles on golfs is just as bad as the silly badging going on?
Title: Re: Cars with fake badges
Post by: dragonfly on 13 November 2013, 08:46
Surely sticking porsche handles on golfs is just as bad as the silly badging going on?

Controversial! It would also mean a fair few cars in the scene are fake!
Title: Re: Cars with fake badges
Post by: mcgee9t2 on 13 November 2013, 09:03
Surely sticking porsche handles on golfs is just as bad as the silly badging going on?

not really, labeling a low spec mk4 1.4 as a gti is completely different to putting a set of porsche handles on. noone goes oh look at that car it looks like a mk4 golf but it has porsche handles therefore must be a porsche. however people may think ah look at that mk4 it has a gti badge therefore it must be a gti. (i know things like c/c rub strips etc give it away to people in the know but you get the idea.)

or labeliing a low spec bmw as a m3 etc etc etc.
Title: Re: Cars with fake badges
Post by: mwad gti on 13 November 2013, 13:15
I don't see that there is anything wrong with badging a car.
There's nothing wrong with my M3 M5 M6 RS XR ST turbo nutter ninja GTI  :evil:


Only joking  :smiley:
Title: Re: Cars with fake badges
Post by: Diamond Hell on 13 November 2013, 14:52
Surely sticking porsche handles on golfs is just as bad as the silly badging going on?

This.

And Porsche wheels, especially - they're not the right fitment and probably aren't that light either.

Utter dicks.

It's a shopping car, not a sports car. If you want a proper Porsche sports car with Porsche badges on it, there's a really easy solution - BUY A PORSCHE you wannabe knobber.
Title: Re: Cars with fake badges
Post by: mrsaunders on 13 November 2013, 15:46
Surely sticking porsche handles on golfs is just as bad as the silly badging going on?

This.

And Porsche wheels, especially - they're not the right fitment and probably aren't that light either.

Utter dicks.

It's a shopping car, not a sports car. If you want a proper Porsche sports car with Porsche badges on it, there's a really easy solution - BUY A PORSCHE you wannabe knobber.


This will upset a few people, just sit back and wait for the slanging match to commence  :grin:
Title: Re: Cars with fake badges
Post by: Poached on 14 November 2013, 19:23
Casting Bait :grin:.

See a few non 'M' BMW's with 'M' badges which is a bit sad. TBH I reckon most people that do this don't actually understand what an 'M' is, they just think the badge adds kudos.
Title: Re: Cars with fake badges
Post by: danny_p on 16 November 2013, 20:13
as long as you down badge  it's fine    316 badges on a 325  = ok   316 badges on an M3 = better

upbadge and your gay.

use badges from the wronge marque and well .   call the fireing squad
Title: Re: Cars with fake badges
Post by: CraigBest on 16 November 2013, 20:17
Why down grade? De-badge. Upgrading should be punishable by loss of driving license!
Title: Re: Cars with fake badges
Post by: legg360 on 16 November 2013, 23:11
Always makes me laugh knowing someone has gone and spent money to put a badge on the doesn't make go with the others seen a GTI blue motion on the M5 the other week, a VXR astra van that said 1.9 next to it or even better cars that have the type r badge bought from Halfords on corsa's and other 17 year old boy racers.... surely when they are buying and sticking those badges on it must cross their mind "this looks like s"!t"
Title: Re: Cars with fake badges
Post by: CraigBest on 16 November 2013, 23:14
No because they're 17 and their brains haven't developed yet.
Title: Re: Cars with fake badges
Post by: legg360 on 16 November 2013, 23:23
They need something to show their mates in the Tesco car park at 1am, I look at them now and im so glad that I never when through that phase!!
Title: Re: Cars with fake badges
Post by: CraigBest on 16 November 2013, 23:32
Me too.
Title: Re: Cars with fake badges
Post by: Seanl on 18 November 2013, 20:56
They need something to show their mates in the Tesco car park at 1am, I look at them now and im so glad that I never when through that phase!!



Reminds me of the Confused ad on tv. "Hello local youth......... I can save you money on insuring your sensible 1.1 litre hatchback"  :grin:
Title: Re: Cars with fake badges
Post by: gazareth on 18 November 2013, 21:01
They need something to show their mates in the Tesco car park at 1am, I look at them now and im so glad that I never when through that phase!!
how can you avoid going through that phase? its near impossible to get from 16 to 18 without been 17 for the year between :huh:
Title: Re: Cars with fake badges
Post by: CraigBest on 18 November 2013, 21:05
Not passing until 23 helps I reckon. But that's just me  :grin:
Title: Re: Cars with fake badges
Post by: gazareth on 18 November 2013, 21:31
hey come to mention it I didn't pass until 2 days after my 18th :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Cars with fake badges
Post by: CraigBest on 18 November 2013, 21:54
I can think of better things to do than sit in a car park. Pubs for example  :smiley:
Title: Re: Cars with fake badges
Post by: Poached on 18 November 2013, 22:19
They need something to show their mates in the Tesco car park at 1am, I look at them now and im so glad that I never when through that phase!!

Same, the appeal was well and truly lost on me :grin:.