'Catalyst', '16V', '800V'? Bring obscure boot badges back for the EV age
24-08-2026 07:00 via autocar.co.uk

'Catalyst', '16V', '800V'? Bring obscure boot badges back for the EV age

Cars once shouted about their tech spec – in such a fast-moving era, we should return to gratuitous badgingI spotted a badge on the back of a new car the other day that took me right back to the good old days, when car manufacturers assumed that owners cared enough about the technology in their products that they would actually advertise it a bit. Two badges, actually, both wonderfully incomprehensible.
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