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Originally Posted by Richbot
No badge would be better
a) there are like 50 other M3 badges on the car
b) it's cheaper
c) it's lighter
d) it's easier to clean instead of dealing with all those f5!@#$^ing crevices around the badge
e) can't identify you accurately during your cannonball run
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A - Only two remain that are visible, those on the side gills. The rest of them are hidden in places that only enthusiactivists care about.
B - I can't roll my eyes back in my head far enough for that one.
C - I just did. Ow.
D - you're lazy
E - they can't catch up to me enough to see the badge. Get with the program.
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Originally Posted by Richbot
I debadged my Tundra the weekend after I got it. A badge for which engine it has, on each side, the size of my hand, with a bunch of marketing bogus on it? Gone-fishing lined. Bedside TRD OFF ROAD 4X4 HURR DURR WHEEL AND SHOCK AND PLASTIC SKID PLATE PACKAGE stickers the size of my head, heat-gunned. SR5 badges, twice as big as the M3 badges that come on our cars, on each door for some reason? Gone. I suppose now people might not know I have cloth seats unless they look inside. Wish I could have the $5 or whatever TOyota spent on those badges taken off the purchase price. Its' ridiculous. It STILL says Tundra on it in 3 places now. And Toyota in two places. That's still too much but Tundra is a cool vehicle name and the Toyota badging is molded-in so I'm sortof stuck with it.
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lol you bought a Tundra.
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Originally Posted by Richbot
tl;dr - badges are consumerism and marketing gobbledegook run amok wake up sheeple
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Badges may be out of hand on all vehicles, but on M vehicles they provoked a unique reaction amongst people who knew what they were. When I got my E36 M3 back in those days, I used to get a small thrill walking out to it wherever it was parked, seeing the shiny M badge on the Alpine White paint. If the M badge wasn't on the car, there wasn't too much else to distinguish it from a lame 325i.
Obviously there is a bigger visual difference between an E92 and the E92 M3 that means you don't really need the badge, but I like the tradition. BMW promised and delivered when they made these cars, so I'd like to keep the signage on there and support the legend.