I need EVERYONE! JDM Fest August 12

[ACKING_QC]

Originally Posted by ern-diz

I experienced some of this with Toyotafest. Overall, the show organizers and attendees were awesome. Having said that, the Yaris' were lumped in with the Prius' and tucked away in a corner. I've watched just about every YouTube video uploaded about Toyotafest and browsed the Toyotafest hashtag on Instagram and in total, I found no videos (outside of Tom's) that showed the Yaris' and only a handful of pics on Instagram. There were more disparaging comments about the Yaris on the Instagram posts than there were actual pics of them. I commented about the lack of Yaris love on one of the longest YouTube videos about Toyotafest and got a "lmaooo" reply from the owner

To some degree, it's understandable. The car is the lowest class commuter in the fleet, intended to be nothing more than a cheap, basic commuter, but there are some people doing some really cool things with them and I think it deserves a little more

a little more respect ? don't you remmember that before the DRIFT thing, Silvias from Nissan had the EXACT same role as the Yaris today ? cheap basic turd.... all it takes is a little BOOM to make people realize that, these things are cool

[ern-diz]

Originally Posted by ACKING_QC

a little more respect ? don't you remmember that before the DRIFT thing, Silvias from Nissan had the EXACT same role as the Yaris today ? cheap basic turd.... all it takes is a little BOOM to make people realize that, these things are cool

I agree, which is why I said it deserves more respect. Guys like Jason and Tom are doing incredible things from a racing perspective and if you look at some of the Yaris' from parts of Asia, Europe and even Latin America, there are some insanely dope builds. Just seems like for the most part, North America doesn't show the car as much love.