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Why would someone do this?
- Thread starter ZeApelido
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chronopc
Active Member
Those HOV stickers look horrible.
Chancellor32
Member
Because they want people to think they spent 154k instead of 54k. I do like the red on black tho.
ceekz
Member
So they can identify their car among the 400,000 sold in 2018?
woodisgood
Optimustic Pessimist
Even worse, saw a Model 3 decked out with Audi logos - wasn't fast enough to take photos. Some kind of sick joke I guess.
Not as horrible as my brains would look all over the interior after finally snapping and killing myself to end the agony of not having HOV access and having to sit in the peasant lanes.
At least until the HOV lane becomes useless over the next few months as more and more and more people gain access, and they continue not to enforce the law anyway.
But yes, if our state wasn't run by morons they'd have used special plates instead. That'd even have gotten people to start putting on front plates, I bet.
…but as for the badge? Meh. I'll never voluntarily have any sort of badges besides the manufacturer logo on the hood and trunk (every car I've ever bought was debadged immediately. No model designations, no trim designations), but some people love to try and impress people with how much money they either spent or are lying about spending, or how much power they have or are lying about having.
There's also just the fun of trolling people and making them throw hissy fits.
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Lasairfion
Member
As per my post previously I would probably just make my own badging along the lines of what I outlined:
Model | Short/Long Range | Drive/Performance
Model 3 variants would be:
S, SD; L, LD, LP
Model S variants would be:
(up to 75kwh) S, SD; (over 85kwh) L, LD, LP, LP+, LL
Model X variants would be:
(up to 75kwh) SD; (over 90kwh) LD, LP
Model | Short/Long Range | Drive/Performance
Model 3 variants would be:
S, SD; L, LD, LP
Model S variants would be:
(up to 75kwh) S, SD; (over 85kwh) L, LD, LP, LP+, LL
Model X variants would be:
(up to 75kwh) SD; (over 90kwh) LD, LP
tiltmode43
Member
I see nothing wrong here. Obviously they were lucky enough to receive the one of one P100D TM3. There were murmurs of this beast from Tesla employees but I always assumed it a tall tale. This is is Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, UFO, level of rare. Buy a lottery ticket my friend, and please have the decency to gift me 1% of your gross winnings for giving you the heads up.
gjunky
Trifecta: Solar and both cars are EVs
I dunno, the lack of badging bugged me a little bit too. So I went with this. Maybe it's a little tacky/trite, but I like it. 
Badging is just something I don't get anyways. Why would it be of any importance to write on the back of the car that is 8 cylinders or a turbo charger or any other technical info. Even more random, what some marketing person though of the car's trim should be labeled. SLK, CRX, F150 or whatever. Makes zero sense. The only purpose is to either brag or be judged by others. I don't care about one or the other.
Ormond
Endless Peacock
I think this is Elon's personal vehicle. I think I saw it parked at a SpaceX launch.
Well, that's easy.... "David99" is clearly more sporty and exciting than "DavidPendermuff34"Badging is just something I don't get anyways. Why would it be of any importance to write on the back of the car that is 8 cylinders or a turbo charger or any other technical info. Even more random, what some marketing person though of the car's trim should be labeled. SLK, CRX, F150 or whatever. Makes zero sense. The only purpose is to either brag or be judged by others. I don't care about one or the other.
JeffK
Well-Known Member
I'm embarrassed to say that it took my over a minute to figure out what the deal was with that Model S....
... and then I realized that I was fooled by the fake badge and neglected to look at the rest of the car.
... and then I realized that I was fooled by the fake badge and neglected to look at the rest of the car.
jkirkwood001
Active Member
Maybe I'm being too harsh, but you seem to care as much about appearance as those who add badges. Yours is just the opposite: debadging to say "Look at me and my clean car - I'm anti-status." If you didn't care, you'd just leave it as is, no?
