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12-27-2011, 03:34 PM | #15 | |
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Mugen for Honda volkswagen uses R for both inhouse tuner and performance. AWE does a lot of in house work for audi dunno if it's an official relationship though. |
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Mugen is not a inhouse tuning shop for Honda, Its just as third party is as spoon. Much like Dinan is to BMW.
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AWE would fall under this catagory too. Audi has their S/RS cars as well. so that is their sports car division really. |
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ahh yeah...see that makes things kinda complicated when a shop has close relationships with a manufacturer. If we were considering this..then we have a shit load of names to add to the list. Like 5axis is to Scion.
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All the different brands started from GM's separation of their marques, and look where that ended up. With branding comes exclusivity, and with exclusivity comes cost. I'm all for performance cars, but I don't think it's necessary to treat them differently. It could even work in that company's favor to do away with performance branding.
Right now Lexus has their F line to compete (I guess) with BMW's M line. If it were the same car, but let's just call it IS 500, you could then say that a vanilla Lexus was able to compete with the holy grail M line. I think that would raise the perceived reputation of their entire lineup and lower cost. The downside being that you lose all exclusivity and the type of customer that only cares about his car as a status symbol would no longer find value in your product. |
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What the fuck.... I know many of you guys are only exposed to the bullshit that TRD USA does but... TRD is a revered (albeit expen$ive) performance name brand in many parts of the world.
Technocraft (TRD japan) TTE (no longer active, was TRD Europe > TTE > Toyota F1 >Toyota motorsports) TRD Australia (Actually made TRD branded vehicles....) And Lexus has the F sport line and the F performance vehicles.. what else exactly does Toyota "need" ? TRD is to Mopar is to SVT is to SRT is to Nismo is to Mazdaspeed etc. etc. etc. If anything could be said, is that TRD USA needs to get their act together in terms of consumer products (can't really criticize them of the racing bit... they do a shit ton of excellent work in the professional motorsports arena). p.d. TOM's and SARD share a similar relationship to Toyota as do Spoon & Mugen to Honda. |
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I think the closest Toyota has is the TRD brand or the 'F' under Lexus. Perhaps TRD should just be marketed like AMG, so you could have a Scion FR-S TRD. Personally, I don't think Toyota should do this until they have a couple of more performance models of existing vehicles. Otherwise, having a single vehicle and calling it a special "TRD" seems empty. |
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I don't think Toyota has spent enough time developing a performance oriented car in their lineup. It takes a lot of time build a performance brand and to gain the trust of their consumers; it just doesn't happen overnight.
Look at Honda and their Type-R brand. It started in ~1991 when they introduced their first NSX Type-R. Over time, Honda built the performance brand that everyone would trust. The ironic thing is that Honda is now starting to kill the Type-R brand. I believe they currently sell one Type-R and that's the Euro Civic. |
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Toyota has T-Sport, TTE and TRD.
Enough?
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To understand this we should make the difference between a BRAND and a MARKETING BADGE. To answer to the question, Toyota does have a PERFORMANCE BRAND that is called TRD. Whether is has a MARKETING BADGE is another thing, I can't really answer this question. For example Audi Exclusive, Audi S-Line, Audi S and Audi RS are made by Quattro Gmbh, a sub-department of Audi. BMW Individual, BMW M Line and BMW M are made by BMW's sub-department, M GmbH. However in future BMW M and BMW i will be two stand alone sub-brands of BMW. And Mercedes markets its performance range under AMG GmbH.
Now to see what provokes confusion, take a look at the list of MARKETING BADGES, note, most badges are covered by only one brand. Surprisingly Lexus is the best example. Main Brand: Lexus (= BMW, Mercedes, Audi, VW, Honda, Subaru, Renault...) Sub-Performance "Brand": Lexus F Sport (= Audi S, VW GTI, Honda Type-S, Renault GT...) Performance Brand: Lexus F (= Audi RS, BMW M, VW R, Honda Type-R, Mercdes AMG, Subaru STI, Renault RS...) Ultra-High Performance "Brand": Lexus F ??? (LFA NRE, but no MARKETING NAME yet)(= BMW M CSL/GTS/CRT, Mercdes AMG Black Series, Subaru STI Spec,...) Performance Line: Lexus F-Line (= Audi S-Line, VW R-Line,...) In-House Tuning Brand/Line: Lexus TRD (= Honda Mugen, Nissan Nismo,...) In-House Racing Brand/Line: Lexus Gazoo (= BMW Motorpsort,...) Aftermarket Tuning Brand: Just aftermaket than specialize on some brands and are not affiliated in any way to the main brand even if sometimes relation can be created. Examples: Wald, Amuse, Brabus, G-Power, AC Schnitzer, MTM,... I hope this helped. |
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