AMG badge snobbery..

[DPG]

See that's not 'aspiring' to own that's going out your way to try and make your car look like its something it's not and I bet if you were to be enthusiastic over it they'd let you believe or even tell you it's a AMG. THATS why people get 'snobby' about the badge

Yet we like to fit M bumpers front and rear and twin exhausts to a non M or fit facelift bumpers to an older car and that's OK? I really don't get the whole badge issue.

But that improves the look.

Not sure adding an AMG / M / GTI badge does.

 

[Angie4m]

See that's not 'aspiring' to own that's going out your way to try and make your car look like its something it's not and I bet if you were to be enthusiastic over it they'd let you believe or even tell you it's a AMG. THATS why people get 'snobby' about the badge

Yet we like to fit M bumpers front and rear and twin exhausts to a non M or fit facelift bumpers to an older car and that's OK? I really don't get the whole badge issue.

You might but I don't. My car is as it was intended to be and has the same bumpers and exhaust from factory. Only car I've ever made significant visual mods to was my Type R with the optional lower bumper inserts and exhaust.......oh wait I had a Type R so I wasn't trying to make it look like something it wasn't.

If you choose to change the look of the car, fine. If you start trying to make it look like something it's not, that's not really fine. If you then start adding badges which denotes it's a specific model in addition to these modifications, that's blatant trying to convince yourself and others that what your driving is what the badge says it is.

 

[buzyg]

I think a lot of this is age related. Went to Nurburgring thing once about 12 years ago. Got the sticker. Would never in a milion years have put it on my road car. Any way gave it to my Daughter's fiance, who stuck it on his 318i. A car that also had an ///M body kit and wing mirrors, plus a single 4" Pipe sticking out the rear. Probably doubled the value of the car. :wink:

The next car he bought, after the 318i, was a Merc AMG something or other, which he kept about a month, until he found out what it cost to run. :roll: Several years on, he's still a petrol head, but now runs a Fiesta 1.2 and a Honda Fire Blade 8) . Neither of which need or have any silly stickers on them.

 

[Angie4m]

I know of one guy with a GTR that is so stupidly fast I watched him take three superbikes going up a hill. He had a Nurburgring sticker on his car, got pulled by a police officer, all was going well until it was pointed out. Copper said he'd been an done it in X amount of time, the boy laughed and said is that all? I did it in X time, which was considerably faster than the copper and he ended up with a ticket for something stupid :lol:

 

[stevo///m3]

I think I'd like the current little M badges that you see on the front wing of most BMs these days on my car. The full size M badge on both wings and the rear is a bit much sometimes and I like the understated look. The car is what it is and I think most knowing people will clock the exhausts, nod, and move on. I have a team member at work with a 14 plate X1 with the full M badge on the rear, just makes me groan internally when I see it. The little badges (what are they - about 2cms across and 1cm high?) are just less shouty. I saw that thread about a year ago with a picture of an M inviting viewers to spot what mods had been done but can't remember who it was by. Apparently he/she had moved the slightly smaller M badges from the wings and replaced the big M badge at the back with one off the wing but it still looked massive. Not sure if I'd debadge it completely. Might have a look into these smaller badges. Just my 2p worth.
Stevo