http://jalopnik.com/#!5796802/afterm...sing-its-doors

HKS is closing down operations in USA....sad sad day....

 

Wow...

 

Now selling my HKS Ti-True Dual for.... 2500 dollas!

 

HA! i had a gut feeling somebody would say that

 

^ i've been thinkin about that all day

 

look's like all the HKS clone exhaust sales did hurt business...

 

All it says is US operations will shut down. You will still be able to purchase HSK parts from Japan.

I'm not surprised. The Fast and Furious scene is played out.

Add to the fact that all these American company are copying these JDM products and selling it under some unknown "brand".

HKS, Greddy, and other manufactures spends year in research and development, and some punk decides to just copy it and create their "own" brand.

 

I wonder how much more the prices of HKS parts will cost now because of "shipping fees".

 

^Yup theres a lot of copy catting in many things now adays.

 

^Always is. Happens to everything, I was talking to Richard at UpRev on Tuesday getting tuned and he was talking about how companies were copying Osiris in different ways. He was really frustrated but said there was really nothing they could do about it.

 

I thought they coult patent everything and stop the copying.

 

Seriously... And first ARC now HKS... Damn next will be Nismo.

 

good thing I bought my HKS exhuast.

 

r.i.p hks

 

I guess the best thing for us to do as consumers in the after market car parts world, is to support the remaining companies by buying legit parts and not some knock-offs. Even if they save us some $$, we'll be losing quality and development in new parts down the line.