Dreadful, truly dreadful.
On a really really serious note, it was also very slightly one of the reasons I moved it on, I drove through town as part of the 72 miles it did this year, and I couldn't help but think that 95% plus of people were assuming is not grown out of my Saxo phase and stuck a kit on my Clio.
Petrolheads know they aren't, but to everyone else, I felt a little, silly 😧
Interesting view. I'd never feel that to be honest. Those who wouldn't know, probably wouldn't even care what it was.
If you're driving the genuine article, all concerns of other people's opinions and thoughts go out the window for me. They are obviously entitled to have their own views on the car - be they positive or negative. But I know that the car was designed like that and sold like that in the first place - and more often than not, for a specific
reason. Balls to them if they don't know, don't care or simply ridicule it.
A bit like a conversation I had with a manager here who couldn't get his head around a black GT3RS having orange wheels. Each comment I made was reacted to with the childish response of "...but it's got f*cking orange wheels." If you've no appreciation of why it has them, then you just make yourself look more of a tit in repeating the same thing.
All the above however, does not save the current owner of that Clio shrouded after-birth on this link. 10 years of hard felching with pineapples should be the minimum of punishments.