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Originally Posted by Beyer Subaru
Nope. Not sad. This is a little bit of awesome. These cars are about having fun and making them "yours". Putting this TRD Cap on my car makes me happy and makes the car mine.
If "yours" means that you will only bolt on power/torque adders, turbo/super chargers, nitrous, engine swaps, etc that's fine.
If "yours" means that your car has to go on a diet to make it a svelte, lightweight, autocross, gymkhana cone destroyer, that's fine.
If "yours" means that you will only bolt on bags, rims and a sticker bombed stance, hellaflush windshield banners, etc that's fine.
If "yours" means that you will only bolt on hard to find, rare, OEM parts that add nothing but looks and weight to the car, that's fine.
If you don't understand what it means to put the "C" in custom then you never will. Cusomizing cars isn't exclusive to going 200+ miles an hour or living your life a 1/4 mile at a time. Cars can be just as pretty scraping the ground or lifted to the sky, runnin a strip or a time attack circuit, being parked at a show or aired out at a meet.
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I get all that and I didn't mean to insinuate that plastic gas caps should be banned.
What bothers me is the CHANNEL thru which they are available. Toyota has several ways it could have marketed the part, heck for the price point they could have made a real gas cap instead of a cover.
To call a body kit TRD is one thing, to call an exhaust is another, but what's next...those fake caliper covers? The dilution of the brand is what concerned me. and the price gouging (i didn't look up the price for myself but someone mentioned $75...yikes...)
Toyota seems to be cashing in on the modify-ability of the car in the sleeziest ways possible, and people look to the TRD/STI/Nismo/Mugen/Tom's of the world for OEM quality and OEM level integration...i feel that a cheap hollow plastic injection molded gas cap cover is short changing the market that trusts and values their catalogs as the epitome of factory tuning (not my view point but plenty of people favor the oem-jdm-ness of such divisions of the parent company)
IJS