'Grilles'

• Most vehicles feature a grille at the front of the vehicle to allow air to flow over the radiator and cool the engine compartment
• The grille is often a distinctive styling element, and many marques use it as their primary brand identifier
• For example:
  • Jeep - seven-bar grille style
  • Rolls Royce - arranges its grille bars by hand to ensure that they appear perfectly vertical
  • Bugatti - horse collar
  • BMW - split kidney
  • Rover - chrome "teeth"
  • Dodge - cross bar
  • Alfa Romeo - 6-bar shield
  • Volvo - slash bar
  • Audi - relatively new, so called single-frame grille
  • The unusual 1971 Plymouth Barracuda grille is known as a cheesegrater
• Billet grille: an aftermarket part that is used to enhance the style or function of the original OEM grille. They are generally made from billet, solid bar stock aircraft grade aluminum or stainless steel, although some are CNC Machined from one solid sheet of aluminum

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