Badging a car up as an //M when it isn't actually an //M always rubs my rhubarb

He's even put an //M badge on the engine block

http://www.z4-forum.com/forum/viewto...p?f=41&t=34334

 

Haha me too, you see it quite a bit

 

It's like the BMW I own, a 2001 530d Sport. Loads of owners call it the M Sport when in fact, the actual E39 model never had an M Sport. This was the later Chris Bangle influenced model 2004- on. The mistake being, that my car as standard is covered in M badges (steering wheel,the 18" upgraded M-Parrallel wheels have them on, door sills).
When anyone asks what model my car is, it's a Sport. You could upgrade your standard SE from the factory with a Sport pack back then. So many just call Sports an "M" Sport either to make it sound better, or just because they don't know their BMW model history lol.. I'll admit, I've called mine an M sport to others to make it sound better. My boot is debadged, with an Alpina style stainless back box to add. So you cannot tell its a Dirty D ;-)

 

When you buy a //M diesel as well...

 

People have been sticking fake Mugen stuff of their 1.4 Civics (or Irsmscher stuff on their Kadetts) since time immemorial.

I suppose its more Kartoffeln than Rice...

 

Same with Type R badges on boggo civics, GTR badges on the GTS skylines, etc etc. Always going to get the "couldn't afford the good one, this is the next best thing" crew

 

Don't forget GTI badges on Golf GT's or Drivers

 

No, no - the Golf Driver was an amazingly accurate piece of German irony; the correlation between ownership & inability to drive with any degree of competence at all was astounding!

 

and, when you close the door it sounds just like an //M

 

We call it

CLOWNAGE

Hundreds here:

http://www.e90post.com/forums/showth...light=clownage