mazdaspeed wannabees [Archive]

oaklandopen

09-12-2008, 08:26 AM

saw one today, it was a 2.3 hatch (that weird purplish-grayish color) and it had the "mazdaspeed" chrome emblem under the "2.3"s up front, and on the right side of the hatch opposite "mazda3".

i stopped right next to her and i wonder what she was thinking when she looked right at me, and then eyed over my car.

i wish i coulda taken a picture but the stop was quick and i ddin't get next to her again. has anyone had any similar sightings?

mazdaspeedster3

09-12-2008, 08:39 AM

Nothing that drastic. I have been chased down by modded mz3's either wanting to just look at my car and 1 or two wanting to play. None with Speed badging though.

tiagotiago

09-12-2008, 08:43 AM

Not with the chrome emblem, but shortly before I got my car I do remember seeing a newish red mazda3 sedan, with some small (and well made, in all honesty) white Mazdaspeed vinil logos. It had one on each side and in the trunk, placed in a similar way to the one you describe.

Now, as I mention, I still didn't have my car, but I was already in the final stages of buying, and I knew well enough a ms3 sedan was just out of the question.

Had I already owned my speed, I would have liked to see what his reaction was to seeing a real one.

Kain

09-12-2008, 09:55 AM

I think the important question is: was she hot?

mazdaspeedster3

09-12-2008, 10:06 AM

LOL, no kidding and should you have been offering her a ride in a real speed? You can get nice mazdaspeed stickers from the dealership or the Mazda website. There are also a couple vinyl guys on the forum that will make you some for cheep.

daonly1around

09-12-2008, 10:17 AM

just remember that their are aftermarket mazdaspeed stuff for the regular three

AutoXRacer

09-12-2008, 10:22 AM

I had Mazdaspeed all over my Miata...and it wasn't the Mazdaspeed version.

Mazdaspeed pays contigency money if you plaster your car with Mazdaspeed vinyl...though you have to buy their vinyl kit and badge the car according to their requirements.

But I assume any "street" car with a chrome Mazdaspeed badge on their 2.3L EFI is a poser!!!!

Mazdaspeed vinyls on a regular (non-Mazdaspeed) Mazda vehicle is OK.

ProtoType5

09-12-2008, 10:24 AM

It's like putting a NISMO sticker on a Nissan...yes, they probably wish they owned a MS3, but it also is just the motorsports division of the company, not model specific, or factory Mazdaspeed specific...I don't see it as "wannabee" just promoting the motorsports division of the brand you love...

If they put that lame "turbo" sticker on the 2.3 N/A, then I would have a problem...

AutoXRacer

09-12-2008, 10:26 AM

SPEED3TYPE2

09-12-2008, 10:27 AM

you can have mazdaspeed mods to your reg 3 without beign a poser..

ProtoType5

09-12-2008, 10:28 AM

I guess the emblem is different than stickers...

I've got Mazdaspeed floormats....therefore I am a total posuer.

ProtoType5

09-12-2008, 10:28 AM

you can have mazdaspeed mods to your reg 3 without beign a poser..

talking about the mazdaspeed badging...not parts/stickers.

and is it any different to be putting Axela/Atenza badges on a USDM 3/6???

really whos the posuer now...we all are...get used to it..

SPEED3TYPE2

09-12-2008, 10:38 AM

talking about the mazdaspeed badging...not parts/stickers.

and is it any different to be putting Axela/Atenza badges on a USDM 3/6???

really whos the posuer now...we all are...get used to it..

I really don't think its a poser thing to do.. It means you like are into the mazdaspeed brand..

VermZ06

09-12-2008, 10:48 AM

I don't think there's anything wrong with putting mazdaspeed badges on a mazda, but I do remember the guy who put Ferrari badges all over his RX-8...(screwy)

CWPspeed3

09-12-2008, 11:28 AM

I don't think there's anything wrong with putting mazdaspeed badges on a mazda, but I do remember the guy who put Ferrari badges all over his RX-8...(screwy)

Haha I saw that, funny stuff.

Hell I wouldnt mind putting more mazdaspeed badges on my car if they would pay sponsorship or give a great discount on their parts, oh wait they dont make anything for the ms3...

AutoXRacer

09-12-2008, 11:34 AM

Haha I saw that, funny stuff.

Hell I wouldnt mind putting more mazdaspeed badges on my car if they would pay sponsorship or give a great discount on their parts, oh wait they dont make anything for the ms3...

They make an intake, CBE, and suspension...

CWPspeed3

09-12-2008, 11:39 AM

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.

AutoXRacer

09-12-2008, 11:41 AM

oaklandopen

09-12-2008, 11:56 AM

I think the important question is: was she hot?

she was about as hot as jabba the hut was athletic, or maybe she was the hut

Unless you put on a chrome Mazdaspeed emblem on your regular 3...
Or a Mazdaspeed emblem on your regular Protege...
(lol2)

they were the same badges that are on the real mazdaspeed3's

I don't think there's anything wrong with putting mazdaspeed badges on a mazda, but I do remember the guy who put Ferrari badges all over his RX-8...(screwy)

it's really the non-subtlety of it that makes it so bad. if one replaced the "mazda3" with the "mazdaspeed" on the back hatch it would be subtle and most ppl shy of enthusiasts may not notice the difference. but the fact that "mazdaspeed" was on the right side of the hatch, and under both "2.3"s in the front was just rediculous. try to imaging any other car with that many redundant chrome emblems from the factory

thaikim

09-12-2008, 12:06 PM

dokx

09-12-2008, 02:43 PM

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:

<opinions>

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

09-12-2008, 02:47 PM

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

phillyb

09-12-2008, 03:49 PM

15min5k

09-12-2008, 03:51 PM

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

09-12-2008, 08:46 PM

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.

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

09-13-2008, 04:55 AM

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

09-13-2008, 05:53 AM

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

09-13-2008, 05:54 AM

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

09-13-2008, 06:12 AM

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

Nismothecat

09-13-2008, 07:04 AM

this is a retarded thread!

RADAR THIS

09-13-2008, 07:13 AM

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

micronesia

09-13-2008, 09:43 AM

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

09-13-2008, 08:20 PM

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

Nokkers3

09-13-2008, 11:05 PM

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

09-13-2008, 11:12 PM

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

09-13-2008, 11:42 PM

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

09-16-2008, 09:36 PM

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

09-17-2008, 08:04 AM

eurotrash

Graf Orlok

09-17-2008, 12:10 PM

eurotrash

(lol2)

NCZ13

09-17-2008, 12:15 PM

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

Unkillable2

09-17-2008, 02:07 PM

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

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

omg that just made my day!

coololddude

09-18-2008, 02:28 PM

i drive around with a blowup doll up front, so i guess fake stickers is probably less retarded.

15min5k

09-18-2008, 02:40 PM

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

The difference between nismo 350z and a regular 350z aren't nearly as drastic(Same powerplant, etc) a say a N/A Mazda 3 and a Turbo Charged Mazdaspeed3. When some douche advertises Mazdaspeed3 emblems on a regular 3 it's GHEY X100

chaos4

09-18-2008, 05:16 PM

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

Hey bulldoggy you old post whore meet me here:(fuoops)
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NCZ13

09-18-2008, 05:59 PM

The difference between nismo 350z and a regular 350z aren't nearly as drastic(Same powerplant, etc) a say a N/A Mazda 3 and a Turbo Charged Mazdaspeed3. When some douche advertises Mazdaspeed3 emblems on a regular 3 it's GHEY X100

im not talking about having a mazdaspeed3 badge on a non mazdaspeed3, im talking about mazdaspeed in general.

Renzokuken

09-19-2008, 05:19 AM

The regular 3's can actually make more power than the mazdaspeeds right now. Out the box we rule, but until we can get past this DI stuff, they will eat us up in the long run.

djthom

09-19-2008, 08:38 AM

The regular 3's can actually make more power than the mazdaspeeds right now. Out the box we rule, but until we can get past this DI stuff, they will eat us up in the long run.

how? why?
seriously interested...

kura808

09-19-2008, 07:45 PM

probably the tri-point turbo kit?

how? why?
seriously interested...

ProtoType5

09-19-2008, 08:11 PM

Direct injection is the #1 reason the MS3 is so powerful...makes it more difficult to modify aftermarket, but direct injection cools the cylinders dramatically letting you raise the boost...

I'm confused as well as to why you would think this was the case...

Direct injection is FTW..

arkenzo

09-19-2008, 08:14 PM

I think the important question is: was she hot?

Not that it matters to you, you're gay. (2thumbs)

Darin

09-22-2008, 09:37 AM

Personally, I would rather de-badge than advertise. It's more fun to be UNDER-estimated. I think people put that stuff on their NON-MS products in an attempt to get ppl to think their car is special.

Of course, this is coming from a guy who once put a V6 badge on a 91 Civic LX...4dr....AT...then cut off the muffler and installed a resonator-tip....who later lost a stop-light race to a FAT woman (400lbs?) driving a turbo Chevy Sprint.... :(

:)