Random Question about badging...

Gloomendoom

Strider590 wrote: »

What I don't get is why so many cars now seem to have ECO<something> on the back........ Like anyone really gives a f**k.

Seriously? I'd have the meaningless POS off in seconds if I owned that car :mad:

Yes, but it stops the tree huggers from sticking their annoying flyers under the wipers in town centre car parks.

Some of them, anyway.

shortdog

My old Fiat had a Merc and a BMW badge on the back instead of the Fiat badges - not quite sure why, as even a monkey would have known it was a Fiat! The previous owner told me that her son had written the actual model details on the back in whiteboard pen!

adamc260

My first car had the Ghia X badge on it... and I liked it having the extra X as it showed it was the top of the range one haha :P

atrixblue.-MFR-.

i like debadging mine i look quite young for my age and it stops the polls pulling me.

so to advertise my car as a 2.0T and looking quite young give police second glances and happy thoughts.

photome

thegirlintheattic wrote: »

I've just realized my car doesn't have anything but the fiesta and ford badges on the back. Looking at others it should have a Zetec and TDCI badge. Shows how much attention I pay!

Just means that you have the cheapest base model;)

seriously though, Kia have just debadged the ceed

andy111

Horseunderwater wrote: »

Many years ago, back when I were youngish - I decided I needed to get an Astra and went for the LX model as it had certain added extras for less money than the equivilant SRI. When they told me car had arrived 10 days later or so I went to pick it up only to find no X on the back of the car. I asked them where the X was? They were puzzled too! They rang factory to be told the factory had run out of them as it was such a popular model! But they did confirm that car was in fact an LX! Took me a year to get that X back! I still think that it is funny that Vauxhall could possible run out of X's even now!
Shortly after that I sold it for an escort.

So it didn't have the x factor, from the x factory;)

wba31

many interesting responses regarding fake upgrades! I might get an M badge off a beemer and stick it on my diesel civic, see if i fool anyone...

on Stryder's point about eco cars, something in me sees it ironic when people in "eco" cars like the prius and other small diesel engined models go racing past me on the motorway when im sat around the speed limit, makes the eco cars not so eco anymore!

NBLondon

photome wrote: »

Just means that you have the cheapest base model;)

Or that's what it was when it was built.

I had a mark 1 Focus with no badges which had been originally supplied to Jersey and then re-imported and re-registered at 6 months old. The paperwork said it was a 1.6CL (base model) so no badges but it had had all the extras fitted to bring it up to a 1.6 Zetec spec (by the first supplying dealer). I gathered this was a common thing for Ford dealers to give them a supply of nearly-new cars. Maybe there was a tax implication somewhere too...

As far as I was concerned, having an actual Zetec badge wouldn't have improved it any...

rdwarr

mattyprice4004 wrote: »

I've de-badged my car - I like to make people wonder.

...assuming they care the slightest in the first place.

thegirlintheattic

NBLondon wrote: »

Or that's what it was when it was built.

I had a mark 1 Focus with no badges which had been originally supplied to Jersey and then re-imported and re-registered at 6 months old. The paperwork said it was a 1.6CL (base model) so no badges but it had had all the extras fitted to bring it up to a 1.6 Zetec spec (by the first supplying dealer). I gathered this was a common thing for Ford dealers to give them a supply of nearly-new cars. Maybe there was a tax implication somewhere too...

As far as I was concerned, having an actual Zetec badge wouldn't have improved it any...

My car came from Jersey perhaps that is why.

It is deffently a Zectec from factory (got the original order sheet and the V5) but has lots of optional extras so is pretty much a Titanium apart from the auto headlights/wipers.