Originally Posted by MrFatbooty
Invidia is a manufacturing company. Invidia was never a division of RS*R.
For a while, RS*R contracted its exhausts out to Invidia. So Invidia built the exhausts, supplied them to RS*R, and RS*R sold them as cheapie "RS*R by Invidia" exhausts.
Fast forward a lil bit, RS*R decides it only wants its brand name to be on genuine RS*R parts and stops contracting out exhausts to Invidia. Invidia says screw you guys, we're going to keep making the stuff and selling it with the RS*R name. During this period of time RS*R was not in the USA market anyway.
RS*R gets Invidia to stop stealing the RS*R brand name. RS*R also comes back to the USA market, selling parts made by RS*R.
About the same time RS*R comes back to the USA, Invidia makes a deal with skunk2 to manufacture their exhausts. They have a skunk2 badge on them and come in an Invidia box.
Hope that clears things up.
hmm...i dont think Invidia ever manufactured RSR exhausts. RSR in 1994-96 made exhausts under the Invidia name in Japan...but was never in any form related to the Invidia that was using the RSR name.
As for the Skunk2 and Invidia exhausts...they are the same...but the Invidia exhausts have "Invidia" stamps whereas the Skunk2 has their own. I have no doubts they come from the same plant though. I've never seen an Invidia exhaust with a Skunk2 badge on it.