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Tanabe Racing Development USA
Made in Japan, made in Tanabe. With over 20 years of experience in the development of quality automotive parts for performance application, we take pride in all our products engineered to the strictest of tolerances, produced with the highest quality materials, and made within our very own advanced ISO9001 (International Organization for Standardization) & JISQ9001 (Japanese Industrial Standard) certified manufacturing facility located in Shiga-city, Osaka-prefecture, Japan. Race Tested and engineered to perfection, get an edge over the competition. Fuel the racing spirit!

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Old 09-01-2006, 09:57 PM
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Post After a brief hiatus from the forum we are back!

FitFreak members,

We sincerely apologize for our brief disappearance from the forum, but hope that you can warmly accept us back into the community as our products are finally here! We are a small staff here at Tanabe USA, and we have been working very hard on various projects and new products, including those that will benefit the Honda Fit community!

As a quick reference, the products currently available for the Fit can be found here:
http://www.tanabe-usa.com/kcars.asp

We understand that many of you have been waiting patiently for our parts, and we are sincerely grateful for that. While it may seem to have an overly long time coming, we want to ensure that the product we manufacture is the best possible, before releasing it to the public.


Questions? We can be reached any time M-F: 8:30pm - 5:30pm at:

info@tanabe-usa.com (emails are answered within 24-48hours)

or directly via phone at:

310-783-0200

Please do not be shy to contact us! We are more than happy to answer any questions.
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are the seat rails on that list in stock in u.s.?
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We will not accept you back into the community unless you send me a Medalion Touring exhaust then everyting will be good.

Some of us will remember the K-cars of the eighties, kinda funny to think thats what I am driving now. LOL
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sorry for sounding like a newb..
but can you tell me what a K-car is or what it stands for?
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We will not accept you back into the community unless you send me a Medalion Touring exhaust then everyting will be good.

Some of us will remember the K-cars of the eighties, kinda funny to think thats what I am driving now. LOL
lol but you arent driving one now. you are driving a sub compact. the fit is a little out of the k-car range and is actually a sub compact.
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Well I would have never considered it a K-car. But as you see Japan has put us into the K-car class. Are we in the 00's equivilant of the 80's Reliants and Aries? Kind of brings a tear to your eye doesn't it.

Sliver- in the 80's car like Plymouth Reliant and Dodge Aries were refered to as K-cars. Probably just showing my age here.
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Some of us will remember the K-cars of the eighties, kinda funny to think thats what I am driving now. LOL
I maybe showing my age also, but an aweful nightmare and sinking feeling came back to me.
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are the seat rails on that list in stock in u.s.?
Yes, we have several of these in stock for the drivers side. They can be picked up through www.more-japan.com or through any of the authorized dealers listed on the "Store Locator" link.

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Well I would have never considered it a K-car. But as you see Japan has put us into the K-car class. Are we in the 00's equivilant of the 80's Reliants and Aries? Kind of brings a tear to your eye doesn't it.

Sliver- in the 80's car like Plymouth Reliant and Dodge Aries were refered to as K-cars. Probably just showing my age here.
In Japan, the subcompact class of car is commonly called a "K Car" or "Kei Car". There are many periodicals in Japan that use this nomenclature. The "K Car" is originally designated for extremely tiny cars that were exempt from Japanese tax and insurance regulations. These were cars that were even smaller than the Fit-- The Honda Fit is certainly a small car, but is technically not a K-Car in the traditional Japanese definition.

Nowadays, the term has become very popular as a term loosely used for small cars in general.

The Honda Fit is definitely not a 20+ year old Reliant/Aries/other similar Chrysler car.

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We will not accept you back into the community unless you send me a Medalion Touring exhaust then everyting will be good.

Some of us will remember the K-cars of the eighties, kinda funny to think thats what I am driving now. LOL
Please send us money Actually, we don't sell anything to the public, and only through authorized retail stores.
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The Honda Fit is definitely not a 20+ year old Reliant/Aries/other similar Chrysler car.
Just don't compare it to the turbo Omni or the Shelby Omni...
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