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Old 05-30-2014, 12:11 PM   #3975
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Nice to see a dealer that is actively engaging current owners.

It seems to me that once you buy it, so long.

I was in at Tony's last week for an oil change - the service guys always go nuts checking mine out - it is heavily modified compared to most FR-S in town - but not one sales guy poked his head in - I wandered through the showroom (wearing one of my many FR-S t-shirts and my Toyota racing ball-cap) and I think I got a Hi - but no one engaged me.

I was hoping for a dealer to come up with a meet up day sometime so we could all show up and your other Scion customers/potential customers could see what can be done to an FR-S - of course not all the mods can be done with OEM TRD/Scion parts, but I thought the whole Scion-experience was the ability to personalize the cars with or without OEM.

The summer hasn't even started yet, so some dealership has the chance to get in first and do a Saturday meet/show on their lot or even an evening get-together with a BBQ and proceeds to a local charity, and have some Scion swag that I hear/see/read about that the US dealers seem to be generous with... I'm full of good ideas - but then I guess if we already have the cars and mods, then you guys can't make more $$$ from us - but potential buyers should be more interested if they saw 15-20 cars all shined up and proudly on display....

Or I could just be a grumpy old man ranting away here... and you can ignore me.

We saw a couple reps form the Mendes(?) group in an iQ last Friday night at Merivale and Meadowlands Tim's/Wendy's/Target parking lot - there were 6-7 FR-s and BRZ present too. You should swing by around 9pm tonight and you'll meet some of us

Ken
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