'Sport' badges on people carriers

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Something I've noticed a lot over the past few months but that I saw 5 times today.
Typical people carrier and shopping trolley type cars of all manufacturers with a Renault style 'Sport' badge on the boot lid.

Today I saw one on a Fiesta (middle aged woman driving), Seat Alhambra (didn't get a look at the driver), Peugeot 307 (elderly gent), VW Sharan (young woman) and one other that I can't recall.

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Have halfords started giving them away? They are identical to the ones on Renault sport models and not generic badges.
Anyone else seeing this or am I alone being puzzled by this?
 
I pulled up alongside a Vauxhall Agila with one of these stuck on.

This is the exact reason I want to de-badge the "Renault Sport" on my Clio 172...
 
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Yes, that's exactly the kind of car they are seen on (apart from Renault sport models of course)!
 
To be fair in recent years 'Sport' has become a manufacturer byword for "We fitted front fogs, bigger alloys and colour coded some bits of trim".
 
People have long been adding badges to their cars that don't belong there, I'm just curious as to why it is so often the Renault style badge and why so much recently with the culprits not being the boy racers any more.
 
It lets the boy racers still think they're tearing it up, like they used to 15 years ago, only now they're 30+ and transporting 2 kids.
 
I saw a Toyota Yaris yesterday with a badge above the 'Yaris' badge saying 'Rolf'. I wanted to track the owner down and give them a slow, painful death :(
 
I saw a Toyota Yaris yesterday with a badge above the 'Yaris' badge saying 'Rolf'. I wanted to track the owner down and give them a slow, painful death :(
Oh dear, I'm ashamed to say I quite like that!
It's similar to adding an M on a yellow Leon.
 
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