dremd - I've looked at a lot of different forum threads that are responses to threads here on EM (mostly about basjoos' car), and I think you're right about the herd mentality. If the negative position taken by the first poster or 2 isn't challenged by someone else early on, the thread goes down the tubes pretty quickly.
treb: weight was the #1 objection (after aesthetics) to basjoos' mods as well.
I came this close to jumping in the toyotanation thread before it had progressed to its 2nd page, but didn't go through with activating my account, for most of the reasons you listed (and because it took long enough for the activation message to get to me that I had time to think about it a little :P).
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