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Young kids today... It's all about LOOKS lol
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Can you imagine for a minute how great that car would handle in heavy rain or snow ? And don't forget the belled out exhaust pipes that exit above the roof for that smooth mellow sound.
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It's because stance!
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That Bentley looks fast sitting still.
I am surprised some of those will hold air. A bit of negative camber sure woke my Miata up
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I have said before on other threads if you want to modify a vehicle outside norms you should either have an engineer's certification of suitability or keep it off the public highways.
In the case of the 'art work' on the previous page, I would consider putting that in an art gallery a public service. I tend not to go to art galleries. I suppose the whole trend might be seen as a reaction to the capability of modern cars and the small amount of that capability needed to negotiate public streets. You can mess things up by an incredible amount and still have a functioning vehicle. Is it any different from people who modify their street vehicles so they will perform better on a race track but never take them there? Sigh Les
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I don't see that here.........................yet. Like a lot of 'race inspired' street cars - function is diluted into a exaggerated style. I believe it started in Japan...........
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The aggressive camber started as a way to eliminate wheel gap on a lowered car. The desired look is to have the fender lip touch the rim of the wheel with no tire showing. Naturally, to achieve this they have to stretch the tire and dial in camber, and then a subset started taking that aesthetic to the extreme.
The look (in America at least) started on *****boxes that would never be fast, and the owners knew that, so they abandoned any pretense of a high performance build for a purely aesthetic one. That there are actual high performance cars starting to be stanced now is just a testament to how popular that scene has become. Simply a case of different strokes for different folks. This is a generation reared on public opinion and one-upping each other ("killing the game") with aggressive suspension fitments is just another way to validate themselves.
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Those "Unpimp ze auto" commercials were great! That was 2006? Seems like only yesterday.
These guys who take it to an extreme with out knowing why they are doing it remind me of a guy I was in high school with. There was a fad of jacking up the back of a car so that wide street slicks would fit under the fenders. This kid had some old POS that he put long spring shackles on to jack the back up, but he had the stock wheels and tires. Like these clowns, he was more than a little confused on the concept.
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