Photo (Fail) of the Week: A BMW 7 Series for Imposters

Everybody knows a BMW roundel adds 100 horsepower to any vehicle on which it is placed. BMW engineers have the easiest jobs in the world when creating automobiles that begin life as BMWs. For example, they do far less work than other companies’ engineers when creating powerful engines. Whereas other car companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of man hours extracting 240 horsepower from a four-banger, the folks at BMW can throw a 140-horsepower motor together in a few days, and let the roundel do the rest of the work.

BMW-model badging also offers extra horsepower depending on the badge’s numeric size. A BMW 1 Series badge can offer five to 10 more horsepower. BMW 7 Series badging can offer 75 to 150 more horsepower.

People who own cars made by other companies are smart consumers when they place BMW roundels and/or model badges on their cars. The 2004 Honda Accord you see above may be the finest Honda Accord in the world because its labeling officially and certifiably makes it a BMW 745Li.

Okay, I tried to make the previous three paragraphs ridiculous enough to match the above photo’s frivolity, but I may have come short, so now I must be sensible: if the Accord owner intended “Li” in the 745Li badge to signify “lie”, then he or she has saved himself/herself from a mandated sterilization.

Thanks to MBWorld.org forum member aprevo15 for this image.