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Identity crisis doesn’t always have to happen to cars only. It could also happen to something that we might consider insignificant:

How can an Opel-branded headrest have a humongous Hyundai logo on it? We really don’t know. Seriously. Maybe it’s similar to the case of the BMW-grill-selling Astra Daihatsu.

Facts:
Available at ITC Fatmawati.

What do you do if you have a German car? And you want it to be tricked out like no other pimps on the planet?

You paint the whole goddamned hood with a cheesy looking airbrush featuring the German flag, of course! And the owner has taken the pimp dice that is used to be hanged under your rear view mirror, a step further. It now has even more dice than any pimp ever roamed the world. And I don’t really think that this is a promotional car either.

Facts:
Mercedes Benz A-Class, unknown license plate, somewhere in Radio Dalam, in front of Kijang ViVi.

If BMW has the 1-series for the sedan line-up, they also built the X1 for the SUV line-up, it’s a coexistential matter, my friends…

You see, there’s a story behind this… A friend of mine once visited an Astra Daihatsu service center to fix his car, that is when he stumbled in awe and found that Astra Daihatsu actually sells a BMW grill for the Taruna. Astra Daihatsu, somehow you have become an embarassment to nature. Somehow, we can’t blame those ricers for this particular matter, can we?

Facts:
Daihatsu Taruna, B 8514 BG, RS International Bintaro parking area.
Thanks to B for the photo.

This is one of the worst racing Kijang wannabes. But do you know what’s the best part of it? It has all the elements of almost every tuning style available on the planet, from Doel’s Package-C stickers to stinkin’ crap pembajak sawah body-kits made from one of those angkot coachbuilders, from Wanabe exhaust to Dadone chromes, also semi-smoked taillights. And last but not least, that stock wheels painted with a butt-ugly color. This is an excellent example of an acculturation.

We still don’t have any idea what’s that Evolution sticker doing on its ass, though. Will cars evolve to one of this in the distant future? Perhaps…

Facts:
Toyota Kijang, B 18 CN, Pondok Gede tollroads.
Thanks to Mpu Gondring for the photo.

Well, what do you know, several days of not checking the shoutbox, and rumors spread like breadcrumbs all over the place. Here’s my official statement, we probably will go commercial BUT… Not anytime soon. Why? Well, there are a lot of reasons and thinkings for this.

1. We may not have the funds to do so. Commercial websites need money to run. We have to pay for the domain and also the hosting, annually.
2. We may not have the time to update the site twice as much as we did now. We’re the industry’s slaves, you know. We need to make a living, haha.
3. As Tongki said in the shoutbox, we could have donations from some company that is willing to take our site further, but things could go bad for the donor. Of course, people has rights to choose what they want to do with their money, but you know how ricers are, to them, anything against them is wrong. We wouldn’t want anything bad happen to our sincere donors, would we?

So, the conclusion is that we won’t go commercial right now UNLESS, tahukuning has some tricks under his sleeves that I’m not aware of. So, tofu? What is it?