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        Poll: where are you on the stealth scale?
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        Old 6th April 2002, 23:59   #1 (permalink)
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        poll - degree of stealth

        how stealthy are you?

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        Old 7th April 2002, 01:01   #2 (permalink)
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        hehe... just the fact that the M5 is a 4 door sedan is stealth enough for me.....
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        Old 7th April 2002, 01:30   #3 (permalink)
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        Most people don't know what's hit them even when they see the rear badges!
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        Old 7th April 2002, 03:11   #4 (permalink)
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        frankly, i think color has way more to do with stealth than the badges or spoiler. You can delete the badges and spoilers off an imola red or le mans blue M5 and it is still going to attract way more attention than my my anthracite stealth bomber, with badges and all.
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        Old 7th April 2002, 03:14   #5 (permalink)
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        Bone stock just as it came from the factory. I like it that way !
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        Old 7th April 2002, 03:19   #6 (permalink)
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        You forgot an option for Badge-removal only

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        Old 7th April 2002, 07:31   #7 (permalink)
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        I say leave well enough alone- so its not really "flaunting it"
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        Old 7th April 2002, 10:14   #8 (permalink)
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        The M5 badges, etc., are not flashy or attention getters. Only people in-the-know can identify it.
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        Old 7th April 2002, 16:42   #9 (permalink)
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        I'm with TFung & Greg. My CB is stealthy as it is (knock on wood). As my dealer put it, you can take the badges off but those 4 pipes are dead giveaway.
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        Old 7th April 2002, 16:49   #10 (permalink)
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        Just bone stock..works well..definetley for the people in the know...means more i guess!

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        Old 7th April 2002, 16:57   #11 (permalink)
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        Quote:
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        frankly, i think color has way more to do with stealth than the badges or spoiler......

        Totally agree, my anthracite functions as a cloaking device
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        Old 7th April 2002, 17:14   #12 (permalink)
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        Lemans Blue = No Stealth.

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