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Joking aside, I'm hoping that we get the Aha firmware updated for free or for a very low cost for our 2013s, and I'm really curious as to whether the kneepads will be the same as the JDM ones, or something different. Either way, I'd hope that they would be nicer than our current ones, and hopefully readily available for 2013 owners, cheaper than the ~$250 it takes to get a full set of JDM ones with the speaker grilles. I was an idiot and I scuffed up the one on the right side of the center console in a couple places while disassembling the radio (I put something over the shift knob to protect it but completely forgot about the kneepad), so I'm putting my plans to replace it on the back burner in hopes of the 2014 bringing a good kneepad to the market.
I'm mildly curious about the new badging. The current badging is pretty standard Subaru - Pleaides clusters centered front and rear, with Subaru in small text to the left and the model to the right, same as every other Subaru available. I'm not sure if they intend to remove the word Subaru and possibly relocate BRZ to be in a similar spot to the FR-S, or if they've got a cool new BRZ badge, or if they want to put more crap on it (Really, Subaru? You needed a badge on my old Legacy GT to say that it was Symmetrical AWD?).
Either way, the tiny trunk lid is too cluttered with Subaru [Pleaides] BRZ, especially with the spoiler and the chrome tail lights, and I think my car looks far nicer debadged. I can't see myself rebadging unless they come out with something really cool in place of the Pleaides. I could see them doing a fancy Pleaides in a different color, but having GBS, the field of the Pleaides is a very nice match, so I wouldn't go to a red and black one or whatever ricey crap Subaru decides is cool, IF that's even the badge they decide to revise.
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