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Originally Posted by cycleboy
And here's another thing that baffles me about these cars: people's obsession with rebadging their FR-S as a Toyota.
Who freakin cares? 
There appears to be this obsession with "Scion bad" and "Toyota good". |
Badge swaps will be commonplace until every world car uses the same name for every country. There are older Lexuses with Toyota badges with using the nameplates Celsior, Aristo or Altezza. There are Hyundai Genesis sedans are given KDM badges presenting the Genesis as its own brand. Mazda 3s that have the Axela badge. Kia Optima with the K5 badge. Yaris with the Vitz badge. This is not a phenomenon with the FRS, its the case with many Japanese cars where people want to have the JDM badges. Heck in Australia the Holden Commodore was badged Pontiac G8 by people even though Pontiac never existed in Australia.
For me the worst badge swaps are people with a BMW 318i badging them as a M3 when it clearly isn't with a cheapo dinky single exhaust. Amazingly on that case its not even kids, its also 50 year olds who've actually done that.