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Originally Posted by AmooManiak
There are two type of people:
1. The ones who will know what car you have whether or not you have a badge on it just based on the exhaust.
2. The ones who can't tell a difference between a 528i and an M5.
In either case they won't be fooled so the logic of "trying to hide" is irrelevant.
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I couldn't agree more, which is why I'm taking the M badges off ... either someone will know you're not driving a real M, or won't know what M means.
Though, I do think there's some logic in de-badging a early Model GTR, a subaru STI or a real 'M' - and that's that people who want to pinch your car probably don't know enough to tell a standard WRX from a STI, or a M5 from a 528i - without looking at the badges. So if you're not of the mindset "if you've got it, flaunt it" - debadging does carry some merit.
Exhausts are easy to fake - that's the real reason we all love quad exhausts on our 1'ers - the performance BMW's all have quads. The hardest thing to fake (and the best way to tell a real Skyline GTR from a GTS-T with GTR Badges) is the flaring of the guards.