The parts you buy shape the future of innovation

[@luvhcchris]

Thank you for the wonderful video! enjoyed this one, as always. Happy holidays. Hope to buy my 07 sti swap from you guys once it’s time later this year. But the used market prices are so tempting on eBay right now 😭

[@Nightfire3714]

Lets see Dom Acia on here. That dude's a wealth of knowledge for the EJ

[@FlatironsTuning]

Thanks for watching and thanks for the suggestion. Stay Tuned!

[@ComeandDriveIt]

A bigger piece is that these companies doing knock-offs often have zero ability to understand what’s critical in these parts and they have no intention of revising the part for features, safety, etc and supporting customers after the sale.

[@Christosan88]

I'd hope when I go out of my way to buy a genuine product from a reputable source promotes those channels of business'.

[@FlatironsTuning]

Thanks for watching and thanks for the comment. I'd say that absolutely would. Stay Tuned!

[@fredastaire6156]

I want to know what shitty companies are copy/pasting/stealing product ideas in main stream so that I can know not to support them!

[@Sebbaru93]

PLM, RPG, Torque Solutions off the top of my head

[@Rynowhite14]

Interesting topic. Honestly, I think that's just the nature of business and creativity. I don't think there's really anything about motorsports that's practical, and so to have any success at all creating new parts and selling them, you're pretty lucky. Even the big brands have the same issues. For example, how much time, money and development did lotus spend developing the M100, only to have it flop while watching Mazda earn huge success with a cheap knock off of a previous Lotus design?

[@Micah_Makes]

But the Miata wasn't a copy of it and that's the point. You can look into it and see for yourself that it wasn't a copy but an inspired, more reliable and less expensive take on the concept. Those differences were coffered in the podcast.

[@Rynowhite14]

@@Micah_Makes Yeah, my only point was that creativity and innovation can be difficult to monetize, even for big brands, and the passion projects such as motorsports aren't exactly practical. I didn't say anything about the brands that literally steal other brands ideas. As a consumer, I'd say buy the quality products while they are still being made, because these products aren't going to be around forever.