QUOTE(moe6 @ Mar 29 2007, 03:07 PM)
mostly comes down to who can enforce these replicas. INGS and the Passo kits don't have their own people here.
R3 however is Malaysian. I won't get started on my Malaysian rant, but there are lots who claim that Malaysians can't come up with anything particularly good when it comes to cars, and here we have something good and people are pushing them out of the business by buying these fake products.
At the very least, it is about supporting your own people. R3 are nothing like what most Proton people are from my experience with them. Of course despite saying this, the anti-proton bandwagon should arrive here any minute now .
as much as i wanna agree with u, i believe that its an open free market, just look at pivot with their pivot raizin fakes. what have they done is to show consumers that there are fakes on the market, thats what i call an effort. what has "R3" done in this case, i dont blame those producing the replica's but the lack of infomation to the consumer by the manufacturers themselves. R3 however is Malaysian. I won't get started on my Malaysian rant, but there are lots who claim that Malaysians can't come up with anything particularly good when it comes to cars, and here we have something good and people are pushing them out of the business by buying these fake products.
At the very least, it is about supporting your own people. R3 are nothing like what most Proton people are from my experience with them. Of course despite saying this, the anti-proton bandwagon should arrive here any minute now .
it is not wrong to call it a replica, there are many things that are replica's such as watches and stuff, does tag hauer go after them? does rolex go after them? does casio go after them?....
the bottom line is, yes we will try to buy original goods and support our own ppl... and about suppoting our own ppl.... does buying a passo bodykit from serdang considered supporting our people?
i am not anti proton... heck i am in my 4th proton now... but sometimes what proton does just pises me of. dunno about R3 though, but i guess they should be better like u said