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Old 05-24-12, 06:33 AM
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Default Fox Marketing's SEMA Cars

Destroyed...

Just saw this on CarBuzz..http://carbuzz.com/news/2012/5/21/Sa...royed-7708932/

Seems like a waste of some good looking cars..

Wonder if the turbos & s/c were salvaged or parted out???





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wtf? thats just dumb
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wow seriouly!!!!!!!! thats stupid!!!
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Horrible to see such nice cars go to waste.
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He parted out most of the things on the cars before they were crushed. Sucks that those cars had to get crushed but they was only demo cars and they wasn't able to be sold. So they had to crush them
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It's sad to see them go and it seems to be a waste when they could be used for other purposes; maybe send it back to head quarters in Japan so they can use it for something else.

I heard from an aquintance from Toyota who said the FR-S which was being shown at dealers before the realease; it will be crushed!!
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Wow...........
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Damnnnnn, well that blows
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OMFG, some laws just dont make any damn sense!
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WTF! I'll take the damn interior

some laws are just dumb...and this is clearly one of them
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for as much hype as their cars got, fox marketing never delivered on any promises of consumer-level products.

meh.
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What a waste! I would have gladly taken the front fenders, steering wheel, carbon fiber trim, and speakers fron the F!!!!
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Originally Posted by projectdna
for as much hype as their cars got, fox marketing never delivered on any promises of consumer-level products.

meh.
I second this.
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I knew the cars were going to be crush, their vin numbers specified that, but I wonder how much FOX could swap out from the cars? I know a lot of people, myself included, would have loved to get their hands on that widebody
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Even though the cars didn't have the boosted performance numbers it promised. There still was ALOT of USABLE pieces on the car. What a shame.


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