Scion FR-S Tuner Challenge Builds in the Flesh (SEMA debut)

[daiheadjai]

Sheesh... tough crowd....

[vh_supra26]

I like the black one the best.

[jadewbj]

The only thing I don't like about all of them is they all went with air suspensions. I had a proper air suspension on one of my previous cars so I am by no means an "air hater". However with this car I think a nice set of coilovers would be better for it.

Problem is that they would loose the way these are judged.

[SubieNate]

Air suspension is dumb and I hate fake carbon wraps.

The evasive car blows all of these out of the water and I think the fatlace car looks better as well.

[jadewbj]

Originally Posted by SubieNate

Air suspension is dumb and I hate fake carbon wraps.

The evasive car blows all of these out of the water and I think the fatlace car looks better as well.

Sad thing is I think the evassive car would not win the way this thing is judged. They get a 0 on the audio category.

Evasive is the best FRS I have seen built so far, hands down.

[NRG x FRS]

Originally Posted by jadewbj

The only thing I don't like about all of them is they all went with air suspensions. I had a proper air suspension on one of my previous cars so I am by no means an "air hater". However with this car I think a nice set of coilovers would be better for it.

Problem is that they would loose the way these are judged.

Air suspension is REQUIRED by SCION for the Tuner Challenge. It's more so a logistical issue with getting the cars in and off transporters. The Fatlace/Evasive/MV cars aren't bound to the same requirements as the TUNER CHALLENGE cars. I 110% would have thrown a good solid set of coil overs in the build if i could. But SCION told us specifically we had to run Air Suspension.

[NRG x FRS]

Originally Posted by jadewbj

Sad thing is I think the evassive car would not win the way this thing is judged. They get a 0 on the audio category.

Evasive is the best FRS I have seen built so far, hands down.

I agree... it's a bit of a risk with the judging. A buddy of mine lost the Challenge a few years back because he scored "0" on audio. I was told by the contest hosts, that the judging has been slightly modified to accommodate these issues. That the execution of theme, concept, and overall build will out weight formal category points. But who knows... I know that I'm dead in the water if we need AUDIO/AV...

[lemonspeakers]

Originally Posted by jdzumwalt

All these cars are a joke. Should have given these tool bags Honda civics.

Originally Posted by Sanjuro

Fail on all three, especially the 2nd and 3rd. What a waste of resources.

Originally Posted by Fenrir

All three of these are gross. I'm slightly offended that our car is being represented by these idiots.

EDIT: Poll needs a *barf* option.

Originally Posted by FR-Shadow

If i absolutely had to chose, it would be the black one. The others are just butt ugly in my opinion.

Originally Posted by Lonewolf

Are these three guys color blind?

Originally Posted by koyv90

to be honest dont really care for any of them. And i didnt see much performance parts added other then coil overs and a supercharger.

Originally Posted by Rampage

IMO What a waste of three nice cars and $45K.

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DAMN!!! I can't agree any more than a lot of the folks here. These three cars are hideous. Might as well leave them stock, right?
This goes to prove that $15K can't make this car any more beautiful than it already is.
The three contestant make me

[NRG x FRS]

Originally Posted by Jon H

Lame.

They couldn't set the ride height higher for transport and adjust once on the floor? Doesn't have to be perfect and corner-balanced. Ah well.

SCION will be using these cars over and over. Not just SEMA. It'll get loaded/and off loaded a dozen plus times. I don't think their logistics guys want to be pulling wheels off, and adjusting ride height manually each time. It's 100% logistics for air ride.

[jadewbj]

Originally Posted by NRG x FRS

Air suspension is REQUIRED by SCION for the Tuner Challenge. It's more so a logistical issue with getting the cars in and off transporters. The Fatlace/Evasive/MV cars aren't bound to the same requirements as the TUNER CHALLENGE cars. I 110% would have thrown a good solid set of coil overs in the build if i could. But SCION told us specifically we had to run Air Suspension.

Ahh, we did not have that requirement when we did it, we were the first group ever so maybe they learned their lesson!

I like your air choice though, I had Air Runners on my Y34.

I am glad they are supposedly changing how the judging goes. We built a clean race style car and lost to a big fiberglassed mess.

[jadewbj]

Originally Posted by subatoy

there is NO FREAKING WAY in this world the black car has $15k worth of mods! that has to be around $25k

Yeah, you get 15k to spend but there is no limit to what you can get from sponsors. We went WAY over 15k when we did it.

[NRG x FRS]

Feel free to head over to www.eGarage.com to check out a JUST released video build documentary!

CLIKC HERE: http://www.egarage.com/videos/scion-tuner-challenge/

[TTGT]

Too many keyboard warriors on here! Each car has its place. I like all of them

[daiheadjai]

I may not find all aspects of these cars to my tastes, but I appreciate that someone took the time and effort to put them together (and I appreciate Scion doing this to generate publicity for the car).

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