Chev badges on your Holden Commodore..

[svo347]

Originally Posted by MadManz

I quite like the l.e.d's under car!

Maybe at car shows but otherwise RICE......
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[Dez]

ive seen heaps of VY SS utes with the chev badge on the tail gate.....i prefer it to the holden badge.

Originally Posted by svo347

Maybe at car shows but otherwise RICE......
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oh well cant help bad taste! :1syellow1

[FordGirl]

Originally Posted by MadManz

I quite like the l.e.d's under car!

I hate them all together, but l.e.d's under the car don't really bother me so much as the neons on the bonnet where the washers are. It's like the newest "craze" around Geelong! It isn't just VL's though, there's camrys and excels getting around with it! out:

[MITCHAY]

well ive seen a video with a mustang that had japanese stickers and a Nissan GTR badges on it. the guy said it was a GTR special edition mustang from japan by memory (might of said sumthn different). WTF

Originally Posted by FordGirl

I hate them all together, but l.e.d's under the car don't really bother me so much as the neons on the bonnet where the washers are. It's like the newest "craze" around Geelong! It isn't just VL's though, there's camrys and excels getting around with it! out:

yeah a lot of excel's get around with them!!! i am not a fan of the bonnet ones but each to there own :

[Dez]

Originally Posted by FordGirl

I hate them all together, but l.e.d's under the car don't really bother me so much as the neons on the bonnet where the washers are. It's like the newest "craze" around Geelong! It isn't just VL's though, there's camrys and excels getting around with it! out:

thats nothin...there is old people around here with them on their stock 4WDs. lol

[V8 Ghia]

I saw an AU ute today with mack truck badges :

[andrew_smith_84]

sort of back on topic, my pre store manager had a rebadged vr lexen. the only way i could tell it was a lexen was when he gave me the key and i saw the toy symbal. he said it was much cheaper than buying a 'real' vr.

imo keep to what it is! i didn't get fpv seat covers for my ea because it is not a fpv. not that i can see them on a gt-p, but i just think a car should be what it is. hope that makes sence. :

[MITCHAY]

yeah. just say sum1 has a stock car or sumthn and then sum1 blings it up like the performance model. then this "performance model" gets owned by a shit car they go to all their mates "i beat that car and it was hotted up" and just gives the good cars a bad rep. like GTST skylines wit GTR badges on it. looks good but when they get owned just gives the GTR a bad rep. or falcons wit FPV badges and bodykits to look the real deal but arent and commodores done up like HSVs. of course sum ppl would b able to tell the diff but the majority of ppl who think they beat these "replicas" have shit cars and have a lot of dumbass mates.

[b2tf]

Ive seen it done on 1 or 2 VY utes around here, and i dont like it. On some I like it but on others i dont, it depends on colour, the size of the badges too etc.

However it is (and i shudder to bring this up, i will cop shit for it but oh well), no different to me putting AU3 Futura Badges on my EF. I did it cos i liked them, and cos it was a Futura so i wasnt making it out to be anything it wasnt. LS1's are a Chev derived engine so in theory there is nothing wrong with it.

But stuff theories, all it comes down to is whether you (owner of car) like it or not.

[Ghiadude]

care factor...........S.F.A if its on the back... ill never see it anyway hahahaha

[Mike Gayner]

I'm not a fan, as far as I'm concerned it's like me putting a Jaguar figure on my Falcons bonnet. Sure they're made by the same company, but a Holden is a Holden and a Chev is a Chev.

[OLS108]

Originally Posted by Mike Gayner

I'm not a fan, as far as I'm concerned it's like me putting a Jaguar figure on my Falcons bonnet. Sure they're made by the same company, but a Holden is a Holden and a Chev is a Chev.

oh cool, is your engine made by jaguar ?

[Dez]

Originally Posted by OLS108

oh cool, is your engine made by jaguar ?

: :P

[kiwikid]

Originally Posted by Dez

: :P

and by a holden driver...... :

[rick69]

I am strongly against Chev badges on Holdens. The car is designed and built by Holden, just because it has a Chev engine does not qualify it for a Chev badge IMO. VL's have Nissan engines but I don't see any VL's getting around with Nissan badges on them.....
And as for trying to make something that it isn't, one of the stupidest things I have seen is 'NVDFPV' number plates on a stock looking EB.

[12]

Originally Posted by rick69

The car is designed and built by Holden, just because it has a Chev engine does not qualify it for a Chev badge IMO.

Ha ha, good one. Designed and built by Holden?? NOT!

When was the last time a Commodore was designed and built from scratch in Australia? And no, the latest Monaro's isn't 100% designed and built in Australia. The All Australian car indeed.. pfft.

[Dez]

Originally Posted by rick69

I am strongly against Chev badges on Holdens. The car is designed and built by Holden, just because it has a Chev engine does not qualify it for a Chev badge IMO. VL's have Nissan engines but I don't see any VL's getting around with Nissan badges on them.....
And as for trying to make something that it isn't, one of the stupidest things I have seen is 'NVDFPV' number plates on a stock looking EB.

thats because if its such a good thing, the VL owners wont want to admit its made by nissan...they'll always say its holden.

if it was shit, and un-popular, they'd be saying they're only shit because of the nissan engine ;)

[big_waity]

Don't worry Honer, I got your back mate. I laugh whenever I see a Chev badge on a commo. Especially a crappy old commo. It would be like me goin out and putting a Jaguar or Mazda badge on me EA and tryin to tell people I was Hardcore. Heh.

Waity.

[Dez]

Originally Posted by OLS108

is your engine made by jaguar ?

.....

[cheese]

Weren't there a few Falcon utes rebadged as Nissans in the eighties?
And what's the deal with Bluebirds badged as Ford Corsairs?

[MethodX]

Ford and Nissan shared some cars in the early 90's
The Falcon Ute Ford Maverick and Nissan Patrol
The Nissan Pintara and Ford Corsair

Originally Posted by Dez

thats because if its such a good thing, the VL owners wont want to admit its made by nissan...they'll always say its holden.

if it was shit, and un-popular, they'd be saying they're only shit because of the nissan engine ;)

how right you are...

Nothing wrong with the nissan motor... certainly a lot better than the 2o2

[MITCHAY]

my mate has got a 280ZX. its got nissan and datsun badges on it (had a Zed badge on it but got badged). im pretty sure they badge a car mostly by wat the shell is. but in this case it was badged datsun for the shell and nissan for the motor. also i think u badge a car according to what is more likely to sell. the VL is a commodore therefore badges a holden. exporting the monaro to the US. if they had of badged it a holden every1 would b like wtf is a holden so badged it a pontiac. same wit the Uk so they badged it a vauxhall.

[rick69]

Originally Posted by AUGZMK

Ha ha, good one. Designed and built by Holden?? NOT!

When was the last time a Commodore was designed and built from scratch in Australia? And no, the latest Monaro's isn't 100% designed and built in Australia. The All Australian car indeed.. pfft.

That is NOT what I was implying at all. Do you have to be SO specific?
I was trying to say that Chevrolet did not have any part in the design and production of the Commodore, apart from supplying a V8 engine. Therefore the car itself should not be classed as a Chevrolet just because it has a Chevrolet engine.
As for a 100% Australian designed Commodore, well, we don't have long to wait now (VE). :thebirds:

[Mike Gayner]

Originally Posted by OLS108

oh cool, is your engine made by jaguar ?

Oh cool, was your commonwhore assembled by Chevrolet?

So is it cool to buy a BMW 750 and put McLaren F1 badges on it?

[XplosiveR6]

Originally Posted by rick69

That is NOT what I was implying at all. Do you have to be SO specific?
I was trying to say that Chevrolet did not have any part in the design and production of the Commodore, apart from supplying a V8 engine. Therefore the car itself should not be classed as a Chevrolet just because it has a Chevrolet engine.
As for a 100% Australian designed Commodore, well, we don't have long to wait now (VE). :thebirds:

the commodore is simply a rebadged opel with different bumper bars, and opel is the same company as chevrolet, same as fordmoco is the same company as Ford Australia, and ford Europe. its just that GM choose to make a different 'brand' for each world location, its marketing, that is all, its only a facarde and it obviously works

haha, you actually seriously think the VE will be 100% australian designed? some people will beleive anything holden spits out in there "australia means a great deal to us" advertising campains

[12]

Originally Posted by rick69

As for a 100% Australian designed Commodore, well, we don't have long to wait now (VE). :thebirds:

Oh dear.. my stomach hurts, stop.. please stop. . 100% Australian designed!?? Please tell me how you came to this conclusion? I wouldn't mind another good laugh. :

[12]

Come to think of it, is their ANY late model Holdung badged vehicle that is/was 100% designed and built in Australia? I sure can't think of any. Nope, not a single one.