Car graphics on Leon Cupra?

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What would people say if i was to put the touring graphics on my car....all done professionally? cheesy or unique?
 

RobM

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On a heavily modified car, that has everything else a touring car has so it looks like a touring car replica, then fine. On a semi-standard car, it would look like you've stuck a load of stickers on it.
 

MDS

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Theres a bloke near my place here with a LEON full of graphics....

No Comment.

Think like this....

Do it... if you dont like ... Peel them off. ;)
 

LiCkWiD

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I hate the association with burberry and fords. Attend an actual Ford-fan meet like the RS Owners Club and you'll see that 99.9% of those in attendance are mature, responsible car owners with a wealth of knowledge and a very friendly and helpful attitude.

I'm a long-time Ford fanatic but decided to move to the Cupras when I hit a brick-wall with my Fords. (Not literally, of course). I wanted a hot-hatch, preferably a turbo and it had to be recent. So that's the Focus RS and the Focus ST. Both more money and too-high in insurance for me. Which is a shame.

Fords around the globe have been associated with the twin-stripes for an age. Long before this plague of fake burberry (Burberry never made caps.. btw. 1911 English designer label.. destroyed wholey by market tack). And now, if I mention my fondness for the ease of maintenance and modification of the CVH engine, I'm branded a chav!? Madness :p

In closing: Stop branding all Ford fans as chavs.. it just doesn't wash.. and secondly.. Stripes on a Leon? Please... no :)
 

RobM

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I don't think anybody on this thread branded Ford fans as chav... but they did brand big stripes down the side of a Leon as chav. Quite rightly, IMO :)
 

slick

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What about these graphics on my Leon, same look dark laquered look on a dark car...

Honeycomb to match that on the front grilles... Yeah or no? Very subtle i thought... so what people think?
I am too cautious on vinyls on cars, most look like shopping lists on a halfords or never match the lines of the car its stuck too...
This i thought was subtle... especially as i said, if done in a dark grey metallic vinyl on a black car...

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P.S. sorry to hijack, but its to do with vinyls?!
 

RobM

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Subtle vinyls on a car like yours slick can and probably will look superb, as you have the rest of the look to match them.

I just don't think they suit standard cars.
 

LiCkWiD

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Hmm... stylized graphics, tastefully picked and kept in check with the cars lines, curves and for want of a better word, "feel" are no problem.. in my eyes.

I've seen a Leon with a honeycomb vinyl on a bit of the bonnet.. towards to front, passenger side edge near the lights. They were a 3D effect as if to make-out the paint had peeled back and the honeycomb grille had been applied to a section of the bonnet.

It was tasteful, in my eyes and was on a dark-blue Leon. The vinyls were grey and black. Very nice effect.
 

slick

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Hmm... stylized graphics, tastefully picked and kept in check with the cars lines, curves and for want of a better word, "feel" are no problem.. in my eyes.

I've seen a Leon with a honeycomb vinyl on a bit of the bonnet.. towards to front, passenger side edge near the lights. They were a 3D effect as if to make-out the paint had peeled back and the honeycomb grille had been applied to a section of the bonnet.

It was tasteful, in my eyes and was on a dark-blue Leon. The vinyls were grey and black. Very nice effect.

Wouldnt by chance know where that photo is now? be intrested to see it... :D
 

MDS

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I like that GTi...

Im sure some well studied and well applied graphics could do the trick.

Maybe on the C pillar.. somewhere down there... and above the front wheel fender..

So its not just another "Door Painting"
 

LiCkWiD

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I've just spent the last 10 mins goggling the hell out of every combination of "photoshop guides + cars + leon" and "photoshop + tutorial + "car vinyls" etc. trying to find the damn website. There was a link from a .co.uk tutorial page that took you to a site full of ca vinyls and bodykits for "inspiration". I found it last week while photoshopping different alloys onto my car.

If I locate it mate, I'll be sure to post. In fact, if I locate the tutorial site at all.. I'll post that as well. Superb for every kinda car alteration. Photoshopping lowering, rear-light conversions, body-kits, wheels and window tints, vinyls, decals and even front-end conversions etc. The bloke did them all in detail.

Even managed to whack an S2000 front end on a Focus.. it was done so proffessionally, it looked good :S

Watch this space...
 

slick

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I've just spent the last 10 mins goggling the hell out of every combination of "photoshop guides + cars + leon" and "photoshop + tutorial + "car vinyls" etc. trying to find the damn website. There was a link from a .co.uk tutorial page that took you to a site full of ca vinyls and bodykits for "inspiration". I found it last week while photoshopping different alloys onto my car.

If I locate it mate, I'll be sure to post. In fact, if I locate the tutorial site at all.. I'll post that as well. Superb for every kinda car alteration. Photoshopping lowering, rear-light conversions, body-kits, wheels and window tints, vinyls, decals and even front-end conversions etc. The bloke did them all in detail.

Even managed to whack an S2000 front end on a Focus.. it was done so proffessionally, it looked good :S

Watch this space...

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