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Old Jan 16, 2014 | 10:11 PM
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Any one notice the white RC-F has red brake calipers and the blue has black. Hopefully we are able to select color of calipers as an option also.

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Old Jan 19, 2014 | 02:31 PM
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Good observation, I'm with you too :-)
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Old Jan 20, 2014 | 03:34 AM
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would like to see yellow and blue renderings on the white... everyone does red lol
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Old Jan 20, 2014 | 02:48 PM
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Are these Brembo or Akebono brakes? Heard a rumor Akebono brakes are being used on alot of newer high performance vehicles. Since they are a Japanese company, it might make sense I guess...
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Old Jan 21, 2014 | 12:05 AM
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Originally Posted by LexIS007
Are these Brembo or Akebono brakes? Heard a rumor Akebono brakes are being used on alot of newer high performance vehicles. Since they are a Japanese company, it might make sense I guess...
Toyota is Akebono's parent company. So theres already a family connection there. They supply brakes to some Toyota cars as well. Not just them, but GM, FORD etc. Theyre using Toyota brakes
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Old Jan 23, 2014 | 10:38 AM
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The Calipers are by BREMBO... The PADS were by "Jurid" at least for the ISF..

These Calipers look to be Orange for maybe just the Carbon Package cars...
Otherwise they should just be BLACK as shown on the Revealed car..

Here is a sample of the Orange Brembos found on the 2014 Special Edition DST Packaged IS F in Japan


http://lexus.jp/models/isf/dst/


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Old Jan 23, 2014 | 02:58 PM
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I like orange idea. Orange would be a good colour on the carbon package cars.
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Old Jan 23, 2014 | 03:06 PM
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The blue car doesn't have the Carbon PKG, the white one does.

I'm with JoeZ on this one, I believe the Carbon PKG will come with orange calipers.
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Old Jan 25, 2014 | 03:01 PM
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The carbon pack could have been more of a ccs-r car. A lighter interior wheels and 20-30 more bhp a bit like the old e46 m3
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Old Jan 25, 2014 | 09:34 PM
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Originally Posted by TF109B
Toyota is Akebono's parent company. So theres already a family connection there. They supply brakes to some Toyota cars as well. Not just them, but GM, FORD etc. Theyre using Toyota brakes
Okay doesn't Infiniti use Akebono brakes for their sport models? I wasn't aware of the Toyota/Akebono relationship.
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