Minnesota chat 2009
#926
#928
Cobb Tuning drops Mazdaspeed platform
For quite some time, the MAZDASPEED community has, in large part, been confrontational, disrespectful, unprofessional, vulgar or childish regarding any announcements and/or business decisions COBB Tuning has made on public forums. Responses ranging from outrage and profanity to threats of intellectual property piracy have become the normal reaction when things don't go exactly to their wishes. No amount of professionalism, realism or rationale has worked in turning these communications into more constructive discussions.
Although COBB Tuning is a business, it is made up of enthusiasts that work here and they love what they do. Everyone gets a lot of satisfaction from taking on the hard projects like cracking and controlling the MAZDASPEED ecu and making it do what no one else does. When ongoing criticism to these efforts is "**** COBB" or "I'm going to hack your software and give it away" or "**** these OTS maps" or "Hopefully Cobb will get it's head out of it's ***", it tends to make everyone less enthusiastic about working on it.
We have decided to bring MAZDASPEED development to a close because no one at COBB finds it rewarding to put in the hours and hours of effort just to have so many people spouting negativity and insults. In fact, many of our pro tuners have been monitoring the MAZDASPEED forum discussions to gauge interest and have come back with "Uh, nevermind...not worth dealing with it" responses. It's a shame that while the MAZDASPEED community is demanding more performance products from manufacturers, the tribal infighting, Lord of the Flies atmosphere and unrestrained attitude displayed on the forums is actually driving choice and new development out of the market. It might be fun for some, but the entire community suffers as a whole.
Regards,
Gary Sheehan
Director of Marketing
COBB Tuning
J christ way for a vender and part maker to act immature and pull out cuz some immature 18yr olds said bad things. Ugh just when they were going to have some cool parts. Their development for the gtr and evox sucks anyway there other tuners making way more power then them...This new "owner" is ******* it up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvZ5F...layer_embedded
0-60 in 2.8 seconds...wow
For quite some time, the MAZDASPEED community has, in large part, been confrontational, disrespectful, unprofessional, vulgar or childish regarding any announcements and/or business decisions COBB Tuning has made on public forums. Responses ranging from outrage and profanity to threats of intellectual property piracy have become the normal reaction when things don't go exactly to their wishes. No amount of professionalism, realism or rationale has worked in turning these communications into more constructive discussions.
Although COBB Tuning is a business, it is made up of enthusiasts that work here and they love what they do. Everyone gets a lot of satisfaction from taking on the hard projects like cracking and controlling the MAZDASPEED ecu and making it do what no one else does. When ongoing criticism to these efforts is "**** COBB" or "I'm going to hack your software and give it away" or "**** these OTS maps" or "Hopefully Cobb will get it's head out of it's ***", it tends to make everyone less enthusiastic about working on it.
We have decided to bring MAZDASPEED development to a close because no one at COBB finds it rewarding to put in the hours and hours of effort just to have so many people spouting negativity and insults. In fact, many of our pro tuners have been monitoring the MAZDASPEED forum discussions to gauge interest and have come back with "Uh, nevermind...not worth dealing with it" responses. It's a shame that while the MAZDASPEED community is demanding more performance products from manufacturers, the tribal infighting, Lord of the Flies atmosphere and unrestrained attitude displayed on the forums is actually driving choice and new development out of the market. It might be fun for some, but the entire community suffers as a whole.
Regards,
Gary Sheehan
Director of Marketing
COBB Tuning
J christ way for a vender and part maker to act immature and pull out cuz some immature 18yr olds said bad things. Ugh just when they were going to have some cool parts. Their development for the gtr and evox sucks anyway there other tuners making way more power then them...This new "owner" is ******* it up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvZ5F...layer_embedded
0-60 in 2.8 seconds...wow
Last edited by northvibe; 04-08-2009 at 11:24 AM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost
#930
sup hoffa! did your lady find another job?
eminems new music vid, lol its funny. The sara pailin actor is the one in nailin pailin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DptkI0EY6ZY
eminems new music vid, lol its funny. The sara pailin actor is the one in nailin pailin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DptkI0EY6ZY
#932
Hmm chris if you got the money the exhaust and springs would be good. You have them in before the meet?
#933
Doubtful. It's to use the store credit from my wheels. Good deal on the exhaust so I might as well since there's really nothing else I can get. Stage kit is pretty guaranteed to have an intake with it. I have wheels. Only other thing I'll get is a tint. I won't have time to get it installed before the meet. I mentioned I'll be in Chicago with the Hahn guys and could even pick it up there.
#934
Doubtful. It's to use the store credit from my wheels. Good deal on the exhaust so I might as well since there's really nothing else I can get. Stage kit is pretty guaranteed to have an intake with it. I have wheels. Only other thing I'll get is a tint. I won't have time to get it installed before the meet. I mentioned I'll be in Chicago with the Hahn guys and could even pick it up there.
Well I'm getting sick of the fwd turbo bs. So I found this subaru baja with a sti engine.
Now I can drive like hell in the winter and its still a sleeper.
Last edited by northvibe; 04-08-2009 at 04:03 PM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost
#938
I had sunlight directly behind me and it's my phone camera. My eye prescription just ran out so I'll probably ask for a tint prescription for 30%. If I can't get one, I'll just get 50% probably.
#939
sup hoffa! did your lady find another job?
eminems new music vid, lol its funny. The sara pailin actor is the one in nailin pailin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DptkI0EY6ZY
eminems new music vid, lol its funny. The sara pailin actor is the one in nailin pailin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DptkI0EY6ZY
#940
hoffa, parnell... if you guys see one of these around at a dealership for sale let me know. pretty much every chevy dealership in the metro area is lookin for me right now. 97-04 coupe 6 speed z06 or standard is what i'm lookin for. if you (or anyone else on here) see one for me please let me know
and maybe i'll get this in return for buyin one
thanks guys
and maybe i'll get this in return for buyin one
thanks guys
#943
if you guys see one of these around at a dealership for sale let me know. pretty much every chevy dealership in the metro area is lookin for me right now. 97-04 coupe 6 speed z06 or standard is what i'm lookin for. if you (or anyone else on here) see one for me please let me know
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#944
How late do you think you'll be there? I'll be heading back from Fairmont on 169 and would love to hear it before I buy it. I'll probably be in the area around 9ish.
I had sunlight directly behind me and it's my phone camera. My eye prescription just ran out so I'll probably ask for a tint prescription for 30%. If I can't get one, I'll just get 50% probably.
I had sunlight directly behind me and it's my phone camera. My eye prescription just ran out so I'll probably ask for a tint prescription for 30%. If I can't get one, I'll just get 50% probably.
#945
i want a c5. if i sell my baby i might as well make sure the payments are less than what i'm doin now so i'm guessin around 20k and and yeah, i'd like a z06 but i dunno. either way it'll have lingenfelter on it eventually and an slp loud mouth exhaust will be put on it. cuz of the price range i'm lookin for it probably wouldn't be a z06 though even with high miles it's still more around 25k