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Originally Posted by cornfed
Sorry guys, When i say ricey, I mean it in a way in which work (such debadging or shaving door handles) is done in a haphazard way as to leave bolt holes or holes in general and then to pain over it with primer or a slightly off color. I didn't mean to say that debadging is ricey, just bad debadging is ricey. Maybe ricey isn't the word.
Either way, I think getting all upset about Scion badging is a little juvenile. If you want a big name badge, go get a big name car like Porsche or Lexus. I thought only superficial people were worried about a social status symbol of a big named car, and I thought this was devinately not the kinda place for those type of people. Its an act of insecurity in my opinion. Be proud of what you drive, you bought it.....
I understand the concept of debadging or stated above "rebadging", but for me its just a name, everybody that cares about import cars knows that a 240sx is the same chasis as the Japaneese Silvia or 180SX, just the engine is different, and if you do the swap to an SR20 and you feel proud of your self about it then by all means put the Silvia badges on it. Just don't badge it an Infinity, because you don't want people to think of your car as just a Nissan, thats how i feel about the Scion/Toyota badging, i know tha great toyota parts and workmanship goes into each car. Why worry about the fucking badge?
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I don't think people are too worried about the name itself but for Toyota to badge this a Scion kind of doesn't show what the car really is.
How many performance built Scion's really exist? Sure the tC has some decent aftermarket but it's still a FWD coupe with 160HP in stock form.. the xB & xA? Those are odd looking cars that are marketed to teenagers...
I guess the point is that the FT-86 is supposed to be Toyota's return of a true sports car, and Scion doesn't make anything in the realm of true sports cars, and it also was created to make cheap cars that appeal to teenagers..