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Originally Posted by boris13

"Nimble" sounds good to me too. I think I'm going to get the TRD sport shocks only (without the lowering spring kit), to firm up the liftback's cornering and overall handling. I want to maintain at least close to stock ground clearance (actually, I'd like MORE ground clearance, on the order of a Subaru Outback, but you can't always have everything!); I drive on a lot of bumpy dirt roads.

If you are going on bumpy roads, just check the design of the shocks before purchasing. monotube shocks like Koni don't have a good reputation for high stroke application (less room for cooling, oil bubbles up etc). I've had a set of Koni fail and start to leak oil. Bilsteins so I've been told quite good in offroad applications so you may want to also investigate that path if you are only doing shocks.

I don't know where the TRD USA are made, but the TRD Sportivo (Japan) are made by KYB but to TRD spec.