Metal Guru Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 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. Erebus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metal Guru Posted May 1, 2022 Author Share Posted May 1, 2022 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HillmanImp Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 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. Cavcraft, privatewire, Turbowomble and 10 others 2 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catsinthewelder Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 The longship of steam adw1977, Asimo, motorpunk and 9 others 3 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrcento Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 The green oval of disintegration. warch, sutty2006 and grogee 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 The Viking badge of boiling kettles ...... JeeExEll 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rml2345 Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 Plughole of doom. The iron symbol of longevity and exploding plastics. The chevrons of insanity. warch, Shite Ron and cort1977 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 Yeah, the Diamond of Doom rings a bell... grogee, richbraith and Lacquer Peel 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asimo Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 Volvo for men. catsinthewelder and rml2345 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkNWeigh Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 The three pointed star of entitlement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy18s Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 I've just bought the new Vauxhall Disappointment Did you get the colour you wanted? No #bill bailey Snake Charmer, twosmoke300, catsinthewelder and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 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. twosmoke300 and garethj 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grogee Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 The red cross and green serpent of Latin hard shoulderment warch, EspenO and HMC 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toe Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 Just figured out the title is referring to Vauxhall, I thought straight away thinking it was referring to Saab, doh! N Dentressangle 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 The blue oval of the oval. HillmanImp and JeeExEll 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnoyingPentium Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 The arrow heided thing of despair. privatewire 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSdriver Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 A bloke in a pub once suggested that the Citroen logo should be a footprint as you are quite likely to end up walking. Shite Ron, AnnoyingPentium, Snake Charmer and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richbraith Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 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". Snake Charmer, brownnova, catsinthewelder and 2 others 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernaut Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 The propeller of pricks. catsinthewelder, 500tops, AnnoyingPentium and 4 others 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dobloseven Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soundwave Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 The big cat of financial suicide. rml2345 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 The bit cat of disappointment (When you realize you've bought a Ford Mondeo in fancy dress...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzler Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 The ovals of resignation. The Oval T of Ovaltine. warch, rml2345, AnnoyingPentium and 2 others 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyW201 Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 7 hours ago, NorfolkNWeigh said: The three pointed star of entitlement. The tri-star of trials, tribulations (and tears) Rusty Pelican 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metal Guru Posted May 2, 2022 Author Share Posted May 2, 2022 9 hours ago, Dizzler said: The ovals of resignation. The Oval T of Ovaltine. I was going to go with “The Bull of Boredom”. warch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 The Octagon of Octogenarians. AnnoyingPentium, DSdriver, grogee and 4 others 3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 The Chevrons of calamity! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asimo Posted May 3, 2022 Share Posted May 3, 2022 The donkey of MR2 bodykits. garethj, AnnoyingPentium, Shite Ron and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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