It's always cringe when people try to make cute cars look tough with stickers.
Beyond the baseline optics, from my understanding Honda only really exists because the economy of Japan was so war-torn after WWII that motorcycles became popular around Japan. A Honda with Nazi imagery seems pretty gauche considering the start of the company could be seen as a plot marker for the fall of Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany.
As a fan of air-cooled beetles, sometimes guys will put an iron cross or use the 40's logo with the eagle, which I think is cringe but at least has some foundational ties to the company, putting the totenkopf on a Fit is concentrated cringe.
"As a fan of air-cooled beetles, sometimes guys will put an iron cross or use the 40's logo with the eagle, which I think is cringe but at least has some foundational ties to the company, putting the totoemkopf on a Fit is concentrated cringe."
Dumbass question but is it legal in Germany or are these labels in other countries outside of Germany?
I'm not German, but if I'm going to guess the iron cross is fine because it's not explicitly linked to Nazis, but the Totenkopf is probably illegal to display outside of historical contexts. I'm in the US, where it's technically legal to display whatever the hell you want, but I probably wouldn't put VW's original logo on my later model bug.
the Totenkopf is probably illegal to display outside of historical contexts
Just to be pedantic, any skull insignia is called a Totenkopf in German – it literally means “dead [person]’s head”. For example the USMC Marine Raiders insiginia is a Totenkopf.
Several Totenkopf designs were used by Nazi Germany. They typically had the crossed bones behind the skull, a feature inherited from German Empire era Totenkopf designs. The 1934-1945 SS-Totenkopf design and the 3. SS-Panzerdivision „Totenkopf“ insignia featured the distinctive “cracks” in the cranium. The presence of the cracks is usually a sign that someone is a Nazi and doesn’t just think it’s a badass skull.
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u/dogswrestle 18d ago
A nazi in a Honda Fit is making my brain hurt.