It is in a box,,, what do you care when you r en a box. Don't. Looks like a K & N to me, but what do I know. Play an A/C mechanic on the net. Butster ifer waht me, I wood take it wash with soapy watah, you yankees youz, and dribble a bit ster of earl on it, snot from the frig, but a bit of wd spray. Not from the STD clinic and will last 50,000 miles THEY say. Nope ster at all. In the mountains are. Clean aih, yankees, but fer us leaving below sub 0 mountin air,, not so good. We need to filtrate and filyrate eve rt thang,, over and over again. Even the forum we filter.