Originally Posted by
MeFryRice
I will say it again and will ALWAYS stand behind my logic....
The reason why I dislike Rota, Drag (replicate of Rotas), Sportfag/XXR, etc. so much is the fact that their marketing strategy is simply taking a popular wheel and copying it via Chinese manufacturing using cheaper materials. If it wasn't for Volk, Work, HRE, CCW, etc to generate new wheel designs, Rota wouldn't be such a large company like they are today. I'm not saying that Rota wheels are ugly as I can admit that they have a couple models in their lineup that are actually decent looking. It is these type of companies that are forcing the big dawgs such as HKS, Greddy, etc to close doors. They spend millions of dollars in R&D and then you have these half ass companies that simply steal the design (they can sell them for less due to lesser quality material, manufacturing process and no expense on R&D). If I were in the big dawg shoes, I wouldn't have any incentive to keep spending bookoos of money on R&D and keep pushing the envelope knowing that all the cheap asses aren't willing to pay for a QUALITY product that actually performs, I'm not just talking about wheels but products as a whole. I don't give two shits what Dave says. Everyone will think differently about the situation but I will always continue to support the OG's, if you will, by spending the extra coin and buying their goods. That is what separates the men that have been in the scene for some time from the posers that joined simply because they thought F&F was super fucking cool.
Since I'm already on a rant, I might as well bitch about all these faggots that think using colored zip ties on their lip looks cool...sorry but it doesn't. Just because you went out and bought a dslr doesn't make you a photographer nor are your driveway "photoshoots" worth posting. 15x8 et0 on a Civic looks like shit, period. It looks hella gay, just like your nut tucking jeans.
/rant for now.