V6 commodores with CHEV badges...huh?

DoreSlamR · 09-12-2006, 10:39 PM

today i spotted a black v6 vt commodore and the owner has taken the holden badges off and put on chevy badges, now correct me if im wrong but they are in fact Buick motors arent they? fair enough if its a v8 of course..I guess Buick badges arent as cool

is it just me or should somone whos gone to the length of changing badges would know a little about their car? they come off as clueless twits to me

Rant finished...

Lukeyson · 09-12-2006, 10:41 PM

Ahhh yes i see this alot, They are what you call in ' i just bought a Holden' denial, think they can disguise it by changing the badge

to .. another GM product :yeees:

lol, yeah cheap shot i know, and quite lame ehhhh .... im going to bed now :ticking:

MITCHAY · 09-12-2006, 10:43 PM

I laugh and then smoke them

: In other countries they are badged as Chevs though so I spose it isn't entirely wrong.

Sapper · 09-12-2006, 10:43 PM

Try to ignore them if you can. There's an MR2 in my area that has Ferrari badges plastered all over it. Didn't even bother to remove the Toyota badges. If they're trying to pretend they're car is American then I think they're issues would be too great to bother worrying about, if you know what I mean. Besides, its sik mate. (sorry, just had to say 'sik' in this post somewhere)

MITCHAY · 09-12-2006, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by hot xr6

Try to ignore them if you can. There's an MR2 in my area that has Ferrari badges plastered all over it.

I saw a 180SX the other day with a Ferrari mock up kit on it. You could be forgiven for thinking it was a Ferrari. If it weren't for the stickers on the window and the bling wheels I wouldn't have known what it was.

DoreSlamR · 09-12-2006, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by hot xr6

Besides, its sik mate. (sorry, just had to say 'sik' in this post somewhere)

lol fully....fully sik mate :dj:

b2tf · 09-12-2006, 10:49 PM

VS with chev badges here.........

RG · 09-12-2006, 10:50 PM

Da chev badges r 2 show dat it iz a fooly sik uleh drivin an dey giz ya 50rwkw...duh.

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Bren260 · 09-12-2006, 10:51 PM

i hate that s h i t

MITCHAY · 09-12-2006, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by RedXR8220

Da chev badges r 2 show dat it iz a fooly sik uleh drivin an dey giz ya 50rwkw...duh.

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It's not 50rwkw it's 51rwkw, get it right man! :hihi:

DoreSlamR · 09-12-2006, 10:55 PM

glad im not the only one thinking its crazy

thought maybe i was splitting hairs about the whole thing

Bren260 · 09-12-2006, 10:55 PM

i hate poser's

RG · 09-12-2006, 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by MITCHAY

It's not 50rwkw it's 51rwkw, get it right man! :hihi:

Musn't have put mine on properly.

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DoreSlamR · 09-12-2006, 10:58 PM

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Originally Posted by MITCHAY

It's not 50rwkw it's 51rwkw, get it right man! :hihi:

lol
that extra kw makes all the difference

Green X · 09-12-2006, 10:58 PM

LOL I have a mate who is a dead keen Holden fan and even he Bags out on the people who put Chevy badges on their Holden’s.

MITCHAY · 09-12-2006, 11:00 PM

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Originally Posted by RedXR8220

Musn't have put mine on properly.

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If you put it on sideways you can get up to 52rwkw didn't you know!

Pouki · 09-12-2006, 11:59 PM

i hate it even on the V8's it came with a holden badge just leave it that way my mate just brought a VU SS ute and he wants to put the chevy badges on i think its wrong dont like the idea of it at all

Ruger · 10-12-2006, 12:20 AM

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Originally Posted by hot xr6

Try to ignore them if you can. There's an MR2 in my area that has Ferrari badges plastered all over it. Didn't even bother to remove the Toyota badges. If they're trying to pretend they're car is American then I think they're issues would be too great to bother worrying about, if you know what I mean. Besides, its sik mate. (sorry, just had to say 'sik' in this post somewhere)

HAHAHAHA White one? ive seen it too hes got the prancing pony on his front grill and between his rear lights?

Yellow_Festiva · 10-12-2006, 12:26 AM

When GM took ove Daewoo a few years back i was in Europe and spotted, wait for it.....

A Chevy Matiz!...... they were touted as their new micro car lol

MITCHAY · 10-12-2006, 12:28 AM

A Matiz, no matter how you brand it is a POS. I for one would not like to be on the receiving end of a signicant punt in one of those things!

qwigybo · 10-12-2006, 02:07 AM

in defence of some my uncles vt2 ss came from the factory with chev badges on it.
but those who put them on a 6 is *** ridiculous

OzJavelin · 10-12-2006, 02:27 AM

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Originally Posted by DoreSlamR

today i spotted a black v6 vt commodore and the owner has taken the holden badges off and put on chevy badges, now correct me if im wrong but they are in fact Buick motors arent they? fair enough if its a v8 of course..I guess Buick badges arent as cool

Buicks are cool ..

BTW: I'd like to re-badge my Falcon ute as a Ranchero?!

XR Martin · 10-12-2006, 03:03 AM

Engine was used in US Chevys also, Camaros, Impalas, Luminas

eb91xr6 · 10-12-2006, 03:13 AM

u get the people that stick ED xr6 badgers on there EA gli falcon with cpi and 3 speed auto, there are the ford fool out there too

Full Spectrum · 10-12-2006, 03:34 AM

I know a yank that gets upset when the VN-VR engine is called a Buick motor.. He says it's a GM engine. But anyway the VN-VR had the buick, But the VT-VY had the Ecotec which was built I'm told by chev if that's true?.
But I'm also one that hates too see them chevs badges on holdens.

Maybe one of the weirdest things i have ever seen on our roads was a VS Commodore executive with a ford badge on the rear. I think the driver was confused.

leojvs · 10-12-2006, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by OzJavelin

Buicks are cool ..

BTW: I'd like to re-badge my Falcon ute as a Ranchero?!

hell yeah to the pic, hell no to the Ranchcero

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Yeah the guys changing bges on V6's...tools. Might as well badge it up s a Buick. Thats what the heart is.

ltd · 10-12-2006, 09:54 AM

I thought the Ecotec was built here in South Australia, the same place were the newer 3.6 motor comes from.
Anyway, Chev never used the ecotec as they continued to use derivatives of the buick 3.8 motor.

GXL078 · 10-12-2006, 10:05 AM

What about when they put Opel badges on Astras and Barinas cause they HATE hOlden badges?

Sapper · 10-12-2006, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Ruger

HAHAHAHA White one? ive seen it too hes got the prancing pony on his front grill and between his rear lights?

Nah, its silver. The best thing about this car though, is an old guy owns it. I mean, what the hell? I can imagine some 17 yo punk doing it 'coz its fully sik mate, the chiks love it mate...' but I would have thought that someone ,by the age of 60, would have more integrity than that.

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Originally Posted by xcgxl

What about when they put Opel badges on Astras and Barinas cause they HATE hOlden badges?

I saw a fully badged Vauxhall Corsa this morning, with 1.4 badges and everything. I think this one might have been genuine. Although I don't know which is a bigger waste of money, getting vauxhall badges shipped out from the UK or getting a Corsa (British name for a Barina) shipped out from the UK.

KaptnKaos · 10-12-2006, 10:50 AM

The V8 engine was originally based on a Buick design (it is now designed here in Oz), but the V6 was originally a modified Chev engine. It is now designed here in Oz too, but is still built on a Chev block.

The fact they bought a Holden should immediately tell you they're lacking in the IQ department!