The Griffin of disappointment.

[Metal Guru]

I was really amused reading a topic where the Audi badge was described as “The four rings of success”, so decided to start this topic where we can come up with similar descriptions based on the badges of various marques.

I’ll get us started with a few here, in addition to the title one.

The Blue oval of averageness.

The Silver diamond of unreliability.

 

[Metal Guru]

I was really amused reading a topic where the Audi badge was described as “The four rings of success”, so decided to start this topic where we can come up with similar descriptions based on the badges of various marques.

I’ll get us started with a few here, in addition to the title one.

The Blue oval of averageness.

The Silver diamond of unreliability.

 

[HillmanImp]

Reminded me of this exchange on Facebook. 

Turns out he was asking about a car to take stuff to the tip but you can generally tell how rough an area is by the number of ageing Vauxhalls littering the streets. 

[catsinthewelder]

The longship of steam

[Mrcento]

The green oval of disintegration.

[RoverFolkUs]

The Viking badge of boiling kettles ...... 

[rml2345]

Plughole of doom.

The iron symbol of longevity and exploding plastics.

The chevrons of insanity.

[Datsuncog]

Yeah, the Diamond of Doom rings a bell...

[Asimo]

Volvo for men.

[New POD]

9 hours ago, HillmanImp said:

Reminded me of this exchange on Facebook. 

Turns out he was asking about a car to take stuff to the tip but you can generally tell how rough an area is by the number of ageing Vauxhalls littering the streets. 

Correlation or causation? 

Cost effective motoring, for the proletarian world. 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

The three pointed star of entitlement.

[andy18s]

I've just bought the new Vauxhall Disappointment 

Did you get the colour you wanted?

No

#bill bailey

[sierraman]

I think the Vauxhall thing stems from it being a car you were given not one you’d choose, something you’d have through circumstance not through choice.

A Zafira you’d end up with because you’d had a load of kids, nobody apart from my dad would have picked one above anything else unless they were forced to have a seven seater.

The Vectra would have been given to you as a company car otherwise you wouldn’t have picked a doom blue Life or Envoy. You’d have been living a lie telling everyone down the pub or at social BBQs that it was just as good as a Mondeo but inside you knew you’d been shafted and spent every waking hour looking for some evidence to the contrary.

[grogee]

The red cross and green serpent of Latin hard shoulderment

[Toe]

Just figured out the title is referring to Vauxhall, I thought straight away thinking it was referring to Saab, doh!

[Bren]

 

The blue oval of the oval.

[AnnoyingPentium]

The arrow heided thing of despair.

[DSdriver]

A bloke in a pub once suggested that the Citroen logo should be a footprint as you are quite likely to end up walking.

[richbraith]

Someone only recently pointed out the little man being eaten by the snake on the Alfa badge,  I think it's quite an apt description of Alfa ownership really, since I and several others have a 166 and it decided to go into limp mode within seconds of me getting behind the wheel for the very first time.  Anyway I'd like to call it "The Crest of Aaaaarghhhhh".

 

[Supernaut]

The propeller of pricks.

[Dobloseven]

3 hours ago, sierraman said:

I think the Vauxhall thing stems from it being a car you were given not one you’d choose, something you’d have through circumstance not through choice.

A Zafira you’d end up with because you’d had a load of kids, nobody apart from my dad would have picked one above anything else unless they were forced to have a seven seater.

The Vectra would have been given to you as a company car otherwise you wouldn’t have picked a doom blue Life or Envoy. You’d have been living a lie telling everyone down the pub or at social BBQs that it was just as good as a Mondeo but inside you knew you’d been shafted and spent every waking hour looking for some evidence to the contrary.

The old Vauxhall versus Ford thing... hmm. I'm saying goodbye to the 54reg Signum(Vectra mutation) today. Walk past a 08reg Mondeo down the road, so pretty contemporary to it. Both cars seem depressingly similar to the untrained eye and have an air of resigned failure about them. In fact the Mondeo owner has a sticker to the effect that the devil may care, but he doesn't give a shit! Must admit the final Mondeos along with the final Insignias are handsome looking things though apart from the Vignales. Ratner would have been better! Think the Insignia was the better seller by a factor of 4 to 3.That's total sales of 4 Insignias against 3 Mondeos! 

[Soundwave]

The big cat of financial suicide. 

[RoverFolkUs]

The bit cat of disappointment

 

 

 

(When you realize you've bought a Ford Mondeo in fancy dress...)

[Dizzler]

The ovals of resignation.

The Oval T of Ovaltine.

[sierraman]

2 hours ago, Dobloseven said:

The old Vauxhall versus Ford thing... hmm. I'm saying goodbye to the 54reg Signum(Vectra mutation) today. Walk past a 08reg Mondeo down the road, so pretty contemporary to it. Both cars seem depressingly similar to the untrained eye and have an air of resigned failure about them. In fact the Mondeo owner has a sticker to the effect that the devil may care, but he doesn't give a shit! Must admit the final Mondeos along with the final Insignias are handsome looking things though apart from the Vignales. Ratner would have been better! Think the Insignia was the better seller by a factor of 4 to 3.That's total sales of 4 Insignias against 3 Mondeos! 

Come on H Samuels or Warren James!

[AndyW201]

7 hours ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

The three pointed star of entitlement.

 

The tri-star of trials, tribulations (and tears)

[Metal Guru]

9 hours ago, Dizzler said:

The ovals of resignation.

The Oval T of Ovaltine.

I was going to go with “The Bull of Boredom”.

[brownnova]

The Octagon of Octogenarians. 
 

[brownnova]

The Chevrons of calamity! 
 

[Asimo]

The donkey of MR2 bodykits.