Why do peopel debadge cars?

[Mikey]

I'm planning on debadging my yellow leon cupra

A) Looks cleaner from looking at others on www.seatcupra.net

B) Fed up with my wash mit being caught in the badges

 

[duc999]

All de-badging does for me is make me think, have they been in a smash and its not quite repaired yet

 

[Gixer]

I spose another reason for it would be to stop chavs from going "dat is a *squint* GTI ummm.. 6, that must be expensive lets key it innit"

lol pretty farfetched but it could happen...

Partly the reason I do it yes. Also the GTI-6 badge does tend to get people in other gti type cars following you right up close trying to egg you on. I rather just no one know until I want to let it be known that I got a bit off oomph under the bonnet

Only downside is that it is hard to spot a gti-6 if it is de-badged as a de-badged XSI or HDI looks exactly the same, unless you can get to see the inside where you can see if it has 6gears or not.

 

[agw_01]

I think this...

Looks better than...

 

[Fantom]

Partly the reason I do it yes. Also the GTI-6 badge does tend to get people in other gti type cars following you right up close trying to egg you on. I rather just no one know until I want to let it be known that I got a bit off oomph under the bonnet

Only downside is that it is hard to spot a gti-6 if it is de-badged as a de-badged XSI or HDI looks exactly the same, unless you can get to see the inside where you can see if it has 6gears or not.

absolutely, a debadged HDi 3dr DTurbo looks exactly the same as the GTi-6

mine is only a HDi but i was thinking of putting a 1.4 badge on it...(even though the 1.4 doesnt have a 1.4 badge on it )

 

[bobert50]

lol sorry 20 years ago a 518i existed! i was thinking of e39's onwards...

 

[Lopéz]

I started debadging the Mondeo and got bored after getting the "Mondeo" script off. It was a pain in the ass when it needed polishing and used to stick in all the gaps.