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Originally Posted by dayofpain
im my opinion the way this site is spreading, i think it would behove us to make it for import enthusiats. but thats just what im seeing. noone will want a subaru import sticker on their dsm. just a thought.
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I was thinking about that, but if we limit it to Imports, we're still alienating domestic owners...
I figure, there's tons of import car clubs already, and honestly, I'm more interested specifically in Subarus. I don't expect (or necessarily want) this site to get huge. I'd much rather have a smaller, closer knit, die-hard group of local Subaru fans than a ton of people that are all into their own thing.
Of course, I'm all for non-Subaru people joining the board. I'm really excited to have people with other cars (esp. cars like Shawn's soon-to-be-turbo Prelude, and sp00lin's DSM) on the board, but I don't expect non-Subaru owners to join the site en-mass, or want a Subaru sticker on their ride.
I'm more interested in this being primarily a Subaru hangout, with hopefully enough non-subaru members to keep us from becoming the elitest WRX dickholes that a lot of other people think WRX owners are.
Once we go down the "don't alienate non-Subaru imports" path, then we have to consider whether or not "imports only" is also too limiting. To be honest, I'm a big Subaru fan, but I like lots of other cars more than I like the cars most people lable as "performance imports". I'm more of a fan of quirky, or rare, or underated cars than I am a fan of any particular segment. That's why I like Subarus, and turbo AWD DSMs, and older cars like the Conquest TSi. Or my '95 T-Bird... (I'd love to smoke a Mustang Cobra with a tricked out T-Bird... total sleeper!) I think "import" generally means "FWD n/a 4-banger"... and I'm not all that interested in that scene... it's too "been there done that" by the Civic crowd. It's the forced induction, and AWD that makes things interesting, and quirky!
Basically what I'm saying is, if we're going to limit the site to anything, let's limit it to Subarus, not because I'm only into Subarus, but because including all my intrests will allow the site to get too big. My worst nightmare for this site would be for it to become impersonal. There's already plenty of sites like that <cough>NASIOC<cough>I-Club<cough>ClubSI<cough>StangNet<cough>. I'd like to consider this to be an online hangout for people that know each other primarily from real life who all share an interest in Subaru's (owners or not).