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Originally Posted by DRIFTER-M
I actually called Tanabe USA and was in fact told they were made in Taiwan. They just have not, IMO, done a great job of marketing them. Tanabe name carries weight, but they don't seem to swing these around as much as they should. The marketing makes it sound like these are on par with Tein Flex Z, not actually made for drifting / performance and just daily. But the specs seem to indicate they are the same as, you guys suggested, many of the popular Taiwan drifting coilovers.
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Just like parts out of Japan, don't be stuck on a brand name.
Megan used to source from Taiwan exclusively, now their higher end stuff is out of Taiwan and lower end stuff is China.
Tein's low end lines are all "made in Japan" but they reduce their cost by having all the parts made in their factory in Shanghai.
Everyone else in Japan and the world all play the same exchange rate game. Buying out of Taiwan is popular because BC does OEM for a lot of companies customized to their specs, and they only invoice you in USD, so there's no fluctuations in pricing.
It's like head gaskets. Most people don't even know that the head gaskets sold out of Japan under $150 MSRP are not made in Japan, they just keep buying "JDM"
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