The inappropriate badging thread

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My son in law was given a GLA 180 amg line as a courtesy car while his Fiesta is in for bodywork repair. My wife and daughter went with him to pick it up, wife comes back and goes "wow they loaned him an AMG", I said why do you think that, she said she saw AMG logo on the wheels...

You would think she would know better...

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Ha! :) im amazed he not put an AMG badge next to it.....i saw a car the other day which perplexed me? I was sitting in traffic on my bus when i saw a Kia Picanto...nothing strange about that i hear you ask? ...but Kia must be desperate to get on the bandwagon when it was badged up with a GT s line badge!!...what!
Well we all know what GT stands for..Grand Tourer
This one was in black with some orange striping and little twin pipes out the back...talk about laughable!!
Imagine this as a senario???
Hubby comes home and says "darling i bought a GT car so we can go continental cruising across Europe"
Wife gets excited and rushes out to see what her husband has bought?
Imagine her look when she sees this little Picanto with sporty pinstriping and the GT badge on the back,she looks at her hubby with distain and dissapointment and threats of divorce as she says
" im not getting in that thing take it back and get a proper GT car you dopey muppet!!" :)
 

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Ha! :) im amazed he not put an AMG badge next to it.....i saw a car the other day which perplexed me? I was sitting in traffic on my bus when i saw a Kia Picanto...nothing strange about that i hear you ask? ...but Kia must be desperate to get on the bandwagon when it was badged up with a GT s line badge!!...what!
Well we all know what GT stands for..Grand Tourer
This one was in black with some orange striping and little twin pipes out the back...talk about laughable!!
Imagine this as a senario???
Hubby comes home and says "darling i bought a GT car so we can go continental cruising across Europe"
Wife gets excited and rushes out to see what her husband has bought?
Imagine her look when she sees this little Picanto with sporty pinstriping and the GT badge on the back,she looks at her hubby with distain and dissapointment and threats of divorce as she says
" im not getting in that thing take it back and get a proper GT car you dopey muppet!!" :)
and there wuz me thinking it wuz Go Thaster, or in the case of early Golfs, Go Thaster innit ;):cool:
 

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