what you saw was a Nissan Skyline V35. remember, Infiniti, lexus, & acura are not in Japan. they just rebadged them to sell to the wannabe rich living above their means americans. it is still nissan, toyota, & honda.

 

haha I debadged my 04' the first week, too lazy to get the pink ones off the fog light covers though. Dewinged it back to a regular wrx wing by the second week.

Yeah I think....(dont quote me on this) Honda started this way back when the legend and integra first came out. No one was going to pay 30k+ in the 1980's for a Honda. It was all a marketing scheme to make more money.....and it worked so well, many companies followed with it (Lexus, Infiniti). Even domestic markets have their own ways to make money like Ford SVT (Special Vehicle Team) with the Cobra, Lightning, Contour, Focus.

 

just take the pics and post them. If he asks, just tell him a friend of yours wants a pic if that car.

 

I think I'm going to go to the junk yard and look for a BMW M logo for the right side of my trunk and AMG55 for the left side. /sarcasm.

I'm going to put UK badge when summer gets here

 

You don't have a clue of what you're talking about. Rebadging your car as an Evo is one thing ,but an STi is different. STi is what Mopar is to Dodge or Nismo is to Nissan. The Subaru WRX STI is a WRX with STi parts on it. It's like me going out and buying a Nissan and putting all Nismo parts on it. Same difference so when a WRX puts STi parts on it theyre going and buying parts made for their car by Subaru Technica International and putting their part on the car. STi is just a company specializing in Subaru parts. Might explain why they offer grills, suspension, exhaust, and a lot of other things for all WRX's and different Subarus. They make a WRX tuned by STi in america and everyone is convinced it's a type of car and not a company. Oh well just goes to show how ignorant people are and maybe you guys should worry about what you do to your own cars and not what others do to theirs .

 

I have no prob with an STI sticker here or there, but if you're getting the STI wing and badging it the same way as if to pass it off as a REAL STI model car then that's where it annoys me and STI model owners

 

I dont see the harm in putting the wing on a WRX, i mean its a wing, its an STi part, its not like they are going around saying its a WRX. Unless they have the badging and spouting their mouth, then thats just gay.

 

Was true up until this year. Lexus is in Japan now. I wonder how that's working out.

http://lexus.jp/

How does the commitee feel about conversions?

Is it ever right to put a "Sylvia" badge on a 240SX? Or is it just wrong if its a stockish bolt on KA powered car but okay if it is on a SR20 swapped vehicle? Or are they all forever 240SX's?

STi is different. An STi is a WRX, the full name is Impreza WRX STi. But then it is also their parts divsion, so I guess it depends on how you treat it. Having STi badges on a WRX in exactly the same places a stock STi has, I think is misleading.

By that same token I can see people puting Ralliart on any Lancer with Ralliart parts, but if an ES owner puts a Ralliart sticker right where the RA has it, I think that's misleading.

 

i had skyline and 350gt on my g35 when i had it

 

Yeah I actually "thought for a very short time (2seconds)" about putting on skyline stickers, but then realized how many people would look and laugh. The people laughing would know enough about skylines, but only limited knowledge as late as the r34, nothing newer.

 

I have no problems putting Skyline badging on the G35.. that's what it is, a rebadged Skyline from Japan. Besides the GTR, the Skyline are normal sedans and coupes. Seeing a Skyline is no different than if you saw a Camry or Accord here in the US. I see VW Jettas with "Bora" emblems... Hell, I went to Japan and saw people putting Infiniti badges on their Primeras (G20). They also put Lexus badges on their Soarers (SC300/400).

As long as it is from the right car it is fine. I wouldn't waste my money on badging but I don't think it's ugly or stupid. Putting "Type R" on your Civic is something else.

 

so you did or didnt do it? im confused who cares if people laugh...its not their car

 

There have been a million Skylines that aren't GT-R's. Just like there are a million Lancers that aren't Evos. Even before this current generation, there have been some combination of Skyline coupes, sedans and wagons and then a special run of GT-R's.

The fact that Nissan is trying to seperate the two brands now with the iminent release of the R35 worldwide is a smart move, because the general populace here in the U.S. is ignorant of the Skyline and it wouldn't make any sense to release a car that would be perceived as a options package instead of a totally different vehicle.

Calling the car a Skyline GT-R would sound like there is a Skyline GT, or Skyline GS, which their isn't (in the U.S.). By just calling it a GT-R gives the car its own standalone legacy since it will be its official launch in the US.

 

Not necessarily caring about if they laughed, but..... answering the skyline questions would get old really quick.

I had an s2k with turbo, you wouldn't believe how much attention it would get at meets, gas stations, stop lights, etc, that got old. I can only imagine how frustrating answering simple badge questions could get. At least with the S2k, most questions were legit, but the same questions sometimes multiple times a day almost everyday for a year straight.

 

I'm gonna remove my badges just so I can tell people "I don't have to show you no stinkin badges."