RE: V8 Stink'in Badges

["Ian J Haseltine" <Jim_Haseltine@msn.com>]

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From: 	owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net 
Sent: 	07 August 1997 15:21
To: 	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
Subject: 	V8 Stink'in Badges

In message <9707078709.AA870952341@CCGATE.HAC.COM> cwhelmke@ccgate.hac.com 
writes:

>In Europe, upscale car buyers routinely mark their order
>forms for "no badges"; it's considered a sign of understated good
>taste.

Its also a type of oneupmanship. After all, if there are no badges on your 
518i, how many of your neighbours would know that its not a 540i?
If the guy across the road from me reads this - I KNOW your 5 series is a 
520i, the service manager at Castle BMW told me so.


Jim Haseltine
88 Ur quattro