mazdaspeed wannabees

[dokx]

Ooh ooh, I love when people ask for feedback (like the OP wanting to know if anyone had "similar sightings") and nearly every other post in the thread completly opinion based.

First, out of respect, I'll answer your question. I haven't seen anything like that with Mazdas out my way (Raleigh, NC).

With that being said, here are my opinions:

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I don't think you are a poser until you start trying to make a base model car look like one of the upper trim level models. This goes for V6 mustangs with 5.0 emblems, Mazda3s with "mazdaspeed3" badging, etc.

Adding three "mazdaspeed" badges is just bad taste.

Adding vinyl to any car is rice...unless it's a track car.

Adding ANY emblems (maybe a "MPS"...hey...I said maybe) to our cars is just pointless.

Obama is going to win.

</opinions>

 

[AtenzaNY62]

i think this is better than some lancers putting on an evolution badge

 

[phillyb]

The CAI has been on a stop sale since late March. I was just being a bit bitter because I bought mine as soon as they stopped selling the cai and just wish they would sell some more parts. I think they do a short shifter too? Their prices are just too damn high.

there is a mazdaspeed sts for the mz3, not the ms3

 

[15min5k]

i think this is better than some lancers putting on an evolution badge

Yeah at least the regular 3 is a pretty decent performing car to begin with. Really the only major thing it’s lacking is the power plant. The differences between a regular Lancer and the Lancer Evolution however are astronomical from a performance standpoint.

 

[08_MS3_GT]

Yeah at least the regular 3 is a pretty decent performing car to begin with. Really the only major thing its lacking is the power plant. The differences between a regular Lancer and the Lancer Evolution however are astronomical from a performance standpoint.

Test drove a regular three and knew exactly where the turbo boost should have kicked in (instead there was, well, not much power) - thus why I chose the MS3.

I have not seen non-MS cars with MS badging around here. That said, I have seen non-M BMW's with M badges and non-AMG Mercedes-Benz's with AMG badges --> I'm sure MS posers exist. I think it's tacky when ppl put them on, but the only time it would truly bother me is if a dealership jacked up the car's price because the badging was false advertisement.

 

[chaos4]

Unless you have a factory Mazdaspeed the only justifiable cause for putting a badge is if you have the "speed" to back it up... Other wise its just stupid, advertising that your car is fast when its really not...

You people are making something out of nothing. Mazdaspeed Sports and Development make hundreds of Mazdaspeed parts for Miatas, MZ3s, MZ6s, etc. My Miata track car has Mazdaspeed logos all over it. Am I "posing"?
Mazdaspeed existed long before the MS3 and MS6, so get over it. If a guy/girl puts a Mazdaspeed short shifter/exhaust/sway bar/suspension on their MZ3 they are fully entitled to display the Mazdaspeed badging - chrome or not!(hi)

 

[15min5k]

You people are making something out of nothing. Mazdaspeed Sports and Development make hundreds of Mazdaspeed parts for Miatas, MZ3s, MZ6s, etc. My Miata track car has Mazdaspeed logos all over it. Am I "posing"?
Mazdaspeed existed long before the MS3 and MS6, so get over it. If a guy/girl puts a Mazdaspeed short shifter/exhaust/sway bar/suspension on their MZ3 they are fully entitled to display the Mazdaspeed badging - chrome or not!(hi)

OF course they can but that doesn't mean it's not lame as hell.

 

[thaikim]

You people are making something out of nothing. Mazdaspeed Sports and Development make hundreds of Mazdaspeed parts for Miatas, MZ3s, MZ6s, etc. My Miata track car has Mazdaspeed logos all over it. Am I "posing"?
Mazdaspeed existed long before the MS3 and MS6, so get over it. If a guy/girl puts a Mazdaspeed short shifter/exhaust/sway bar/suspension on their MZ3 they are fully entitled to display the Mazdaspeed badging - chrome or not!(hi)

...uhh I think you missed my point entirely, if you have a modded car that has the performance to warrant such a badge then go ahead stick a badge on... I just think its somewhat ludicrous and stupid for say a stock 3 to go around sticking mazdaspeed emblems on...

 

[Bu11dogg2]

NH is a haven for douchbag 3 owners who put hood scoops, with no turbo :mad:

 

[Nismothecat]

this is a retarded thread!

 

[RADAR THIS]

saw a red mz3 with a ms3 spoiler on it on 101...by SFO

 

[micronesia]

I saw a white MS3 (I think it was) today driving home from school... and it had no identifying markers/labels/insignias/whatever. I have no idea what was up with that.

 

[PCspeed3]

yesterday I saw a bright blue Mazda 3 sedan with a fatty white Mazdaspeed sticker on the top of the windshield. s**** weak

 

[Nokkers3]

The other day I saw a Toyota Corolla with a "Lexus" emblem on one side and "IS300" on the other. Wishful thinking maybe?

 

[///M Compact]

I still prefer sleepers. A friend of mine used to auto-x a seriously modded E36 M3. Just for giggles he removed the ///M3 badge and replaced it with a German market 316d badge. Several months later European Car published a letter from a clueless doofus asking where he could buy a 316d like the one he saw that set FTD at a local SCCA event...

 

[kura808]

this thread is stupid...i mean..alot of people put sport20 on their car yet its still a p5 or a sedan wit a conversion..do they have awd? nope. so to each their own. if they wanna put mazdaspeed stuff on their car, let them. who cares? just kick their ass if they try to race u..

without stupid logos, what will we put in our ricer thread??

o btw..i was thinking of putting mazdaspeed on my car too cause i got a mazdaspeed exhaust. doesnt give much "speed" but its still a mazdaspeed part.

 

[Graf Orlok]

What about rebadging a Mazdaspeed to Euro spec Mazda3 MPS? I'm thinking about doing this to make things a bit more sleeperish (at least in the US). Does this make me a poser or just straight up eurotrash?

 

[mdavis]

eurotrash

 

[Graf Orlok]

eurotrash

(lol2)

 

[NCZ13]

i still feel that rocking mazdaspeed is like a nissan rocking nismo...

i dont see what your all getting your panties in a bunch for