I got the impression he was orating or preaching, rather than prognosticating.
That doesn’t seem to be changing the tuning industry.
The only way they would actually change the tuning industry is by announcing they are seeking protection from creditors under Chapter 7 bankruptcy rules and organizing an orderly liquidation. Even then, the tuning industry as a whole (Honda is ten fold the VW industry…not to mention domestics) wouldn’t even notice.
Tuning a GTI via your computer doesn’t seem like a big deal in the VAG tuning world…let alone the entire tuning industry.
Wonder if it’s an announcement about the restructuring?
definitely not…it’s a sales teaser
a restructuring announcement would just be issued ho hum like
that is unless the restructuring involves REVO buying APR…then it would be a pretty big announcement and they’d be a huge company. I still don’t think it would ‘change the tuning industry’ though. Again, just change VW Audi stuff. I also don’t think they’d pre-announce a big merger announcement.
Anyone else see the APR Michelin video last night? I really don’t get it. They’re doing a deal with Michelin or something?
So APR cars will now all have Michelin tires, and APR will sell Michelin tires? Great. Big fucking deal lol.
No offense to APR. I don’t see what the point of the video was.
How about that groundbreaking, industry changing release? IDK how to cope with myself after this!
Congrats to APR for catching up to 2008. Hooray!
http://www.goapr.com/news/2014/09/17/apr-presents-med17-and-edc17-directport-programming/
APR makes a video promoting Michelin tires and their cars. R8 gets totaled while driving back to APR from making the video. Seems like the Michelin tires couldn’t keep it from spinning off the road. #badmarketing?
The funniest part of that is that Mistro came over to my house to use my JHM flashing cable to flash his B7 Rs4…last year…using his laptop…and JHM uses the APR server.
This is still an antiquated step behind that, in that you have to go to the dealer.
Is this for real or are we being punked?
Anyway, back to sleep.
Actually first…I wonder if the B7 RS4 guys get program switching yet lol…they’re always bitching about that (the 9 guys with APR RS4 tune, which as we’ve seen dyno’s and accelerates no faster than stock)
Whoa! The tuning industry will never be the same again…just wait til those Evo guys gear about this.
Hey Todd did you hear that apr now doesn’t require you to ship an Audi Ecu in to be flashed?
Wait hasn’t the industry been capable if doing this for 15+ years
That’s nuts. Good for the balance sheet though, eliminating a costly, hard to sell supercar, and hopefully getting a solid insurance payout. Things are looking up!
Sounds about right. Insurance scam more than likely.
Haha. This thread is fantastic. Some pretty wild APR news, office chairs, iPhone reviews, and insurance fraud. I don’t know if one thread has ever covered so much ground.
In all seriousness, I think the APR hype machine took things a little far with the big announcement, but my guess is they know people that are in the know are distracted by all the rumors out there and are doing anything they can to get things back on track.
Your not going to find me saying too many bad things about APR but this promotion was a terrible idea. I don’t think right now is a good time for APR to over hype and under deliver. It should be just the opposite.
I have to wonder if someone new was responsible for the hype up.
No it was Arin’s deal. Other people in his department have washed their hands of it.
Yesterday’s GROUNDBREAKING game changer was pathetic to say the least. It’s just more of the same old shell game activity they try to use with the public to drawn attention away from the real issues at hand. Equity firms taking over, completely destroying the R8 on a public road and trying to keep it under wraps, not paying vendors and lying to them in the process. This is all typical APR fashion. More firings coming soon as well. I would not want to be an APR employee going to H2Oi this year…they won’t be prepared for all the questions about what happened, what’s going on, why did they kill service, what happened to Stephen and Johnny, where’s the R8, why do you only have 4 cars on display and why do they look like crap? Absolute nightmare to say the least. You reap what you sow though.
Yea the hype for that was pretty ridiculous, probably more of an internal diversionary tactic to make their own employee’s feel better about things “guys…guys…we’re still industry leaders despite this epic shit storm we’ve been wading through”. Ugh.
On fourtitude in the TT MK2 section i posted up and made comments about Mangrove equity, them owing money and so forth. It got deleted. Wish i wouldve took a picture. I went back and posted again. Lets see if this gets deleted. Probably will.
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Doubt it. Seems like an unfortunate set of events . . . but slightly ironic that it occurred driving back from shooting a promo video for Michelin. I question whether or not it will even be ran through insurance or just parted out and scrapped.
Dave