Badges come off easy, kids have been pinching them for some reason. May be they are trying to make the alphabet!

She who must be obeyed, who likes word puzzles came up with a couple of anagrams,

ssangyong korando ventura T-Gdi

"Dusty kangaroos over dating "

any improvements on this?

Edited by _ORB_ on 20/05/2023 at 07:00

How times change, used to be part of the fun spotting the different trim levels. Maybe I am too nerdy but it felt like bonus points for spotting a high trim badge with options that didnt match.

Like the famous (1960s) Mini which was Austin at the front and Morris at the back ?

Lady next door had a friend's car on her drive over a recent weekend. They went off somewhere in the neighbours SEAT.

The other car was a Citroen C3, albeit in some fancy trim, but no external badges.

A local wag changed their range rover badge to read HANGOVER. Another added ASS underneath the SMART.

A local wag changed their range rover badge to read HANGOVER. Another added ASS underneath the SMART.

When I worked in a VW dealership, the current Golf GTI was the 115bhp 2.0 8 valve. Perhaps acknowledging the performance which, though adequate, hardly warranted the GTI moniker, these arrived to us from the factory simply badged Golf 2.0. During the preparation I would remove the 2.0 and replace it with GTI. As the GTI was 3 separate letters (rather than one badge), I nearly always had to fight with my instinct arrange them as GIT ;-).

I don't really see the point of badges (the owner surely knows what it is, nobody else needs to), and I also prefer 'clean' unadorned panels rather than being festooned with (IMO) unnecessary and fussy looking badges. But over the years, badges are basically bragging rights. The average driver of a particularly fast or fancy car now wants others to know, in much the same way back in the "old days", the driver of a Cortina Ghia wanted others to know that it was a Ghia rather than a Cortina L!

When working at a Saab dealer I prepared a 900 that had been bought by one of the mechanics. Because of the state of the paintwork I decided to remove all the badges before machine polishing it. Afterwards i only put the round Saab logo badges back on, one on the bonnet and one in the middle at the rear (leaving off the "SAAB", and "900i 16 valve" that went either side, as well as "SAAB" at either side of the clamshell style bonnet) before getting the mechanic to have a look. He agreed with my thoughts that it looked better without the extra badges.

Going slightly off topic here, but I remember Citroën hastily rebadging one particular trim level of the BX for English speaking markets. The "Très Riche Diesel" became a DTR rather than a TRD for fairly obvious reasons! The only other Citroën vehicle renaming was with their first MPV, which eschewed the Evasion moniker in favour of Synergie, perhaps not wishing the car's drivers to be suspected of tax dodging.

Here's one way to stop badge theft - 1950's Jensen lorry.

www.historywebsite.co.uk/Museum/Transport/commerci...m

I wonder why didn't they do the same on the Interceptor?

Edited by daveyK_UK on 23/05/2023 at 21:32