RE: Insult to all Audi Cars

["Dan Sinclair" <sinclair@prospro.com>]

I think I was misunderstood here.  I'm aware that Lexus, Infinity and Acura
nameplates are merely 'status camouflage' for those folks who think that
matters.  Personally, I could care less.  I just don't understand the
fascination with rebadging your car period.  I think it's especially stupid
when you try to pass a Audi emblem on a Toyota, or a BMW emblem on a
Mitsubishi pickup truck (I've seen this one personally).  But I think it's
equally dumb to rebadge your Lexus to a Toyota, or vice versa.  My point was
not to insult Nissan or Toyota (I drove one of each for 6 years).  My point
was to condemn the morons who popularize this crap, because ultimately, the
more people who think this is 'cool', the more people are going to find
their nice new cars stripped of emblems and covered in screw driver gouges
from dipsh*ts following the trend.

Dan Sinclair
1988 Audi 90, 67K mi.
Picture and details online at:
http://131.107.68.28/a4.org/registry/details.asp?car=761


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ti Kan [mailto:ti@amb.org]
> Sent: Friday, February 26, 1999 4:33 PM
> To: Dan Sinclair
> Cc: scott@collectorspub.com; quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> Subject: Re: Insult to all Audi Cars
>
>
> Dan Sinclair writes:
> > I saw a lowered,
> > chromed-out Acura Integra the other day that had all the Acura emblems
> > stripped off and replaced with Honda 'H' emblems.  Someone want
> to explain
> > that one to me?  Why take the luxury version of a car line, and put the
> > 'base' company emblems on it?!?
>
> You know, the "Acura" name is a north American marketing gimmick.  Those
> cars are really called "Honda Integra" elsewhere in the world.  Perhaps
> this guy did modify his car to put the Honda badge on it, but it wouldn't
> be too different from someone putting a "Audi 80" insignia instead of
> "Audi 4000" on the early 4000, since that is what the car is called
> elsewhere.  You might think going from Acura to Honda is a "downgrade",
> but he probably thinks it's cool because it looks like a non-US edition
> of the car.
>
> Audi rings on a Yotato lowrider, on the other hand... gasp.
>
> -Ti
> 96 A4 2.8 quattro
> 84 5000S 2.1 turbo
> 80 4000 2.0
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