[Superhatch]

I've been part of the Forester community and Nasioc for quite a while and I find two different approaches to the STI brand. In the Forester community the more STI bits you could fit on your car the better. It was great stuff because you knew it would fit perfectly and used pieces could be had for a good price. Contrary to that I found that in the WRX world where an STI was possible to buy as a model option adding STI bits to your car was viewed with a bit of a "You didn't have enough money to buy the real thing" attitude. Granted that's gone a way now that the stock WRX is almost as fast as the STI, but you get the point.

Ideally my mod path with the BRZ is to add STI parts later on when they become available. Oem replacement suspension parts will likely be lower and stronger, STI areo bits usually look great and are a perfect fitment, etc.

My question to the community. If/when there is an STI BRZ released, do you think there will be a stigma associated with STI bits on a standard BRZ?

I mention the other "OEM" tuners because they usually don't have specific models that are large jumps in performance over their counterparts and thus there is no stigma in adding Mugen parts to a standard civic, the same going for the other "OEM" tuning houses. It seems to only exist in the STI/WRX community.