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Originally Posted by DarkneSS
Sorry but youre out of your mind if you think putting an SS bumper on a V6 is even near putting incorrect badges on. Its now even the same league, hell not even the same sport!
There is nothing special about the SS bumper that makes it perform differently. As long as there are no SS badges when placed on a V6 then theres no problem at all. Enthusiasts will spot the difference quick and thats what matters.
What I do have a problem with is people putting the ZL1 bumper on because that bumper has a specific design that actually does something for the ZL1.
But as long as a body mod is purely for aesthetics and isnt trying to pose as another car then theres no problem.
using your silly logic then you must get upset if people put Brembos on the V6 and I KNOW you arent that ridiculous...right?
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You just affirmed what I just said. You think that faking it 70% is "faking it", I think that even 10% faking it is still "faking it". As long as it is above 0, it's faking it.
And no, getting Brembos is not faking it because there is a functional purpose. There's no functional purpose to getting an SS bumper, except to look like an SS. More people will recognize the V6 as an SS by changing to as SS bumper as opposed to putting a near invisable "SS" logo on the backside; therefore more people are fooled - therefore it's faking it. In fact by that logic, changing to an SS bumper is more deceptive than the SS logo, because more people are fooled.
When people say "I'm getting the SS bumper because it looks better", they are really saying "I want my car to look like the SS, because the SS
is better". And the SS looks better because it is the better car. Aesthetically speaking the V6 bumper looks better because it doesn't have the redonkulous mailslot - but people want the mailslot because it's the mark of the better car: the SS. Heck - even the ZL1 doesn't have the mailslot. The mailslot has NO aesthetic benefit except that it is an identifier of the SS model, whose sole aesthetic value is one that differentiates the SS from the V6. I bet anyone that if it was the V6 that had the mailslot (and not the SS), the SAME amount of people changing to the SS bumper right now will choose the non-mail-slot bumper.
How many SS owners swap out their bumper to the V6 model? NONE. That proves that I'm right. People ALWAYS change to the higher model, not the other way round. The whole "I just want to make it look better" is really "I just want to make it look like the higher model because the higher model is better".