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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Miracle" data-source="post: 729056" data-attributes="member: 12814">Well yeah, actually there is a difference. Ford actually innovated the real versions of the FR500, and had BBS (also an industry innovator) build the GT wheels. Not to mention different manufacturing processes, materials, and the actual DESIGN. Because when you go to a company that does NOTHING but knock off truly innovated wheels, you contribute nothing to the enthusiast hobby. In turn, when people don't contribute to the actual innovators, the companies don't make money. If the companies don't make money, they stop creating new designs, and when they stop creating new designs, the knock off companies no longer have things to make copies of. When companies like that have nothing to copy, what do you think happens?All I am saying (because, notice, I said I wasn't knocking a person's wheel choice) is that it is better to support the companies that actually INNOVATE products and introduce them to the market, than to support a foreign company with lower standards of manufacturing, and copy a design outright. Hell, I wouldn't mind rocking a set of cheap wheels, because they were cheap, if there were a company that made their own designs. but to blatantly, outright make a COPY of something, and call it your own, and then sell it, is outright theft, there's no way around it.</blockquote>