# Car trends you just don't get

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**Category:** Shift518 Automotive\
**Created:** [June 5, 2010, 2:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/car-trends-you-just-dont-get/252495 "2010-06-05T14:53:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![OsoiNA6](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/osoina6/32/6301_2.png) [@OsoiNA6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OsoiNA6)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 2:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/car-trends-you-just-dont-get/252495/117 "2010-06-09T14:43:43Z")

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> [@\*\*\*9/02/07 NYSpeed end of summer BBQ @ Letchworth \*\*\*PAYMENT Deadline 8/20\*\*\*](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/9-02-07-nyspeed-end-of-summer-bbq-letchworth-payment-deadline-8-20/32470/36):
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> I don’t understand the whole spending crazzzyyy stupid amounts of money on steering wheels, clusters, front lips, wheels, etc etc just to say its real? Authentic? Jdm?

Not easy to understand, but easy analogy- why do people (\*) buy brand name clothing?

To some point it’s justifiable from a technical standpoint (i.e. wheels) but I have every reason to believe a Moogen oil cap does the same job…

_(\*) PJB not included, as has been explained in these pages 178.2x (no0bs advised to do search on "$8 Wal Mart" for verification)_

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