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SuupYota
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Well, this car has been out since July 22nd 2019. Looking at our current date, do you feel the support is where you want it to be? I'm sure it isn't going to suddenly get better regarding new body parts . It's been about 4 yrs, and what's on the market, are the options available in 4 years. Maybe the Supra isn't aesthetically what you're looking for. If you keep wanting to change major body lines/bumpers/lips before you've even bought one?
SInner
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Making a car different from everyone else’s to me is the whole point. If the car didn’t come with fins I’d probably want to put them on. Hard to find/rare parts and customization was a huge part of the JDM community, but not in the German car world. And again, I feel like the car is being sucked into the bmw category which most Supra owners from what I understand don’t want. I thinks it’s an amazing car/tuning Platform. It allows for a solid variety of wheels (unlike s2000s), makes great power easily, and has gorgeous lines. But the front end just kills me. Maybe it’ll grow on me.
lucky phil
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And thats the rub. I'm often struck by this notion of "different" I see and hear people in the car and motorcycle world respond to something with regards to styling or a particular styling modification as "dope" "cool" or whatever particular descriptor they prefer and am often struck with the thought that what they are really responding to is "uniqueness" or the fact it's it's something "different" and not necessarily a rational and considered improvement to the styling.
Colours are a case in point. I see cars in particular colours that could never rationally be described as suiting that particular car. The reality is the choice is more to do with uniqueness than a suitable choice for the shape and styling cues of the car. Nothing particularly wrong with that concept but whenever I see something offered to significantly change the designers original style or concept I ask myself the question "what am I responding to"? Something that's actually better or just something that's caught my interest because is "unique" and/or different. I often find the unique/different is pretty short lived affair and a major reason people can't seem to stop fiddling with styling modification. As the uniqueness wears off for them they need another hit so to speak and the changes roll on, sometimes for years and years. I find the Supra styling suits my tastes and apart from some wheel spacers to fill the guards more that's all I'll do to it.
racebuild
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A good body shop can do this for you.
Buy a MK4 bumper they cut it in half or more for it to fit the contour/width of the MK5 and plastic weld/glass/bond it. BMW guys did this to fit 1M bumpers before they made the replicas for different chassis.
Just make sure you redo all the ducting after.
Buy a MK4 bumper they cut it in half or more for it to fit the contour/width of the MK5 and plastic weld/glass/bond it. BMW guys did this to fit 1M bumpers before they made the replicas for different chassis.
Just make sure you redo all the ducting after.
