Originally Posted by MAYAman
The only problem with a complete metal grill is that it would have no strength. Look at any care with a grill like this the XJR, the Bentley, all of them have a pretty substantial surround. So I don't understand from a practical standpoint how all of you thought it would just be mesh with no surround. Not only would it look cheap but probably wouldn't last a week.
But it could have a metal surround like the bentley has and then it would require no painting which is going to cost me proably as much as the additional metal would cost over the fiberglas that they have in the latest version. But the biggest positive is that it wouldn't look like a pontiac GTO which is what the latest version makes the car look like. I know they are talking about moving the mesh forward, but that would only make it look like a Pontiac Solstice(ugh).
I don't understand where Tino got the idea to make that big fiberglas surround from but I think it was poorly conceived. I think everyone that signed up thought it was going to look like the photoshop pic that he had in the first thread. I think the estimate was $350 or so but now with proably $150-200 in painting costs the thing is over $500.
I might pay that to get a bentley type grille, but not to make the car look like a pontiac. Maybe in germany Tino doesn't see very many Pontiacs and he thought the V shaped separator in the grille followed the lines of the raised V in the center of the hood. Unfortunately he didn't realize that made it look like a Pontiac GTO. He should have given use a sketch and taken a poll.