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Forums in Aus seem to be very cliquey. Fast Fours forum wayyyy back more than 10years ago was probably the most general car scene forum, Aussie based that I've seen. Then I think a mixture of offline police activity busting up meetups at least here in NSW meant that the forum got together offline less, JDM imports rose in popularity and the turbo imports wanted nothing to do with the emerging AutoSalon (fibreglass, chrome, white pleather) scene, turbo imports and ASM style took away from FastFours which led to a decline in circulation and thus a decline in organic growth/activity on that board - all this combined plus a few savvy members of those forums equalled smaller and even private invite online forums popped up.

Lots of tribes that want to stay apart. I guess that's why the mob that bought AE likes to buy established communities and leave them as they are.