11 Modifications We Want To See Die In 2016
“You bought an RX7, the whole point of it is the rotary motor. And now it’s just a Chevy” - SkylineDom
Check out the video above… Matt Farah doesn’t agree with this one!
Is your Honda excessively loud? Do your doors open upwards? Do you own a detachable steering wheel? If you answered yes to all of these questions, you’re probably a ricer. From all of us here at CT, we beg of you, please stop ruining perfectly good cars.
We have to agree with one commenter who summed up the excessive camber craze rather succinctly:
“This crap has to stop” - the Stig’s German cousin
When Engineering Explained explains why a modification is a bad idea, you have to sit up and listen.
Rocket Bunny and Liberty Walk kits were pretty cool when they first arrived on the scene, helping to give some of our favourite supercars some serious aggression. Unfortunately, the tuning scene went a little in mad in 2015, throwing RB and LW kits onto everything. When almost every car at SEMA has riveted fender flares, you know that the trend has jumped the shark.
Chrome wrapping is another modification that has been tragically overdone in 2015. Just don’t tell Ethan…
We love a low riding car, but only when the lowered ride height helps to improve the car’s dynamics. Slamming for the sake of aesthetics needs to be banished to Room 101.
Spoilers serve a useful purpose on a 1000bhp hypercar. They make less sense on a 100bhp front-wheel drive econobox. Unfortunately the trend of throwing huge wings onto underpowered cars has been around for decades, so we don’t see it dying off any time soon.
2015 was the year of the flame spitting Lamborghini Aventador. After seeing a million videos of supercars pointlessly revving in central London, we’d be happy to see this trend die in 2016.
A modification that sounds cool in theory, but looks seriously cheap and tacky in reality.
The fact that this is even a thing still astounds us. Please stop it, America.
You can see our original community question here.
Comments
So true about the LW and RB kits. I really liked the designs when they first came out because I love the old school fender flare design they gave the modern cars, but their unique character started to lose shine once everyone started fitting them on.
banish No.7 to room 404 not 101
Worst post ever. All of This is purely based on opinions. I like LW and RB, and dont want it to die (yet). Same with rolling coal and slammed cars. Dont really get why you would want something that so many people like to die, doesn’t it go against everything you believe in as a petrolhead?
Well, I’m ok with everything, but rolling coal is a bioweapon AND many people who do it actually use it as such, deliberately aiming their exhaust at pedestrians and at cars with open windows for fun. As much as people may love having a cancer cannon on the side of their truck, the answer is no.
Everyone has their own styles and tastes. I may agree with some of the points but remember we all started somewhere. It’s a learning process.
I agree with you but some People dont understand this
I didn’t do those things to my first car. Or my 20th.
First car got an ECU swap (yes that was possible on a 1985!) to a factory performance Dirt Track ECU (high RPM timing recurve basically). Cat delete, smog pump delete. That was it - everything else stayed stock. I focused on necessities!
I didn’t have the Internet telling me, back in 1994, that I wasn’t cool if I didn’t change the entire look of my hooptie.
All the ricers be like, lets ruin our CV joints and waste money buying new ones every 6 months when we get our stretched tires replaced.
Yep, CV joints and ball joints are one (of several) reasons I haven’t lowered my Abarth. I’m considering a mild drop on the rear to reduce the rake and level the car a bit. But even that would mean a shock swap to Koni’s because the stock shocks don’t work well lowered even 1”…
y no rocket bunny and lb?
But without ricers, who will Mustang owners have to beat in a race?
Okay, I had to take the opportunity… don’t beat me up.
On behalf of all Americans i sincerely apologize for rolling coal
I agree with liberty walk, its cool, but too much cars have it, you cant seem to find a nuce supercar without one.
I actually think the changing color headlights are cool, I’ve never seen them before. The thing I hate is fake xenon headlights like the offbrand stuff that just looks cheaply made.