TRD DISCONTINUED, why! Options

[dmorST95]

Ok so i go to the local Toyota Parts Store and pick up my fuel tank door. i ask the employee if they sell the TRD shortshifter and he replied as follows: " No i dont. and as of yesterday, TRD is no longer in business. They didn't get sold out but Toyota bought them." (or something like that). Anyway since they aren't selling the shorftshifter, is anybody selling it? or nowhere to purchase such a beauty?

[darksecret]

Alright I checked with Scott Clark Toyota and they said that yes TRD has been bought by Toyota and it's currently changing part numbers that is why the parts aren't availible. The parts rep. said that the same thing happened when TRD got bought by a racing company a while back, the products were pulled renumbered and resold again about two years after the company was first sold. The rep. also said expect it to be about a year before TRD is availible again but it will be sold as a factory part so it won't cost as much, basically Toyota won't act as a middle man anymore bringing down the cost, that is the whole reason Toyota purchased TRD is because they were buying the parts at retail and not wholesale so it was expensive, soon they will be able to sell the parts much cheaper and probably develop parts for more of the USDM vehicles.