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Originally Posted by Table 5
As cheeseball as it is, if people want to do that to a mass-produced new Subaru, that's one thing. What really irks me is when you see older cars, ones that had relatively low production runs, getting the same treatment. I believe there are certain cars out there that, after a certain time, become rolling time capsules, and we need to try to preserve them for future car guys to enjoy.
This makes me sad:
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I've always wanted to pitch a show to SPEED called "rescue my ride." Where they take a polak'd out car, and restore it to it's original OEM glory. Sure let the kiddos destroy all the Civic's and WRX's they want, have at 'er. They're a dime a dozen, and don't impress anyone, except for the guys who wanna wrap their car with a bunch of lame Sparco, Type R decals, and fake vents. But guys that took total future classics like the last gen RX-7's, Mister2's, Supra's, and yes, even old 944's and 911's don't realize the type of money they are throwing away, and the damage they are doing to automotive history by destroying these cars with their tacky bolt on/stick on garbage. Sure it's your money and car, but you're incredibly short sighted, and tactless for doing it.
And this isn't an 'old guy' thing. In the 90's when my friends were destroying their cars with tacky body kits, teal heartbeat pinstriping, and no fear decals, while I was doing everything in my power to keep my cars 100% factory. When CD players got big in cars, I would always install mine in the glovebox, so I didn't wreck the flow of the OEM deck. It just seemed wrong to hack up a car and disturb the natural flow of it's design.
Automakers spend billions, and have some of the best engineers on the planet designing these things, and some kid thinks a 'sick ass' deck with blinking disco lights all over it improves the look of the car. That like buying a $3000 bespoke suit, and wearing it with a novelty tuxedo T-shirt.
Driving enthusiasts have one rule with mods. "If it doesn't make it go faster, or stop faster, it isn't needed." Image enthusiasts put a bunch of idiotic body kits and wings all over the car, plaster it with vinyl carbon fauxber, slam them so they are only driveable on runways, and put on gigantic wheels that slow the thing down to uselessness in pretty much any driving condition. Sure, it's your ride. But the guys that drive the cars you really lust for.... think you're lame guys, sorry.
Besides tinting my windows, my GTI has 2 mods. A stage 2 APR tune that takes it to 320 HP and 396 foot pounds of torque. (Go fast mod.) Swapping out the incredibly light factory wheels does nothing, as pretty much no wheel is lighter than the factory wheels that are going to cost less than $1200 a corner.
And a set of Michelin Pilot SS's. (Stop fast/grip better mod.)
My rather plain, unassuming GTI:
Would murder this undriveable clown car, come back and T-bag the corpse, revive it, and then murder it again just for fun:
And I put a grand total of $3200 in mods in mine.
I'm in it for the driving experience, not the "Let's hang around a Shell station and talk about out completely undrivable cars experience." The hilarious irony of modern day image modders, is in an attempt to look fast, the slow their rides down in every aspect. There is a word for that. Posing.
"You can't lose on 22's...." True enough, unless of course your talking about your quarter mile time, fuel economy, and cornering ability. Besides that, your such a boss..... chief.
/rantabouttackymods
Now I have a cloud to yell at.