11 Modifications We Want To See Die In 2016

We asked you guys to tell us which modifications you want to see die in 2016. Here are the most popular - and most controversial - answers

Neil Winn

04 Feb 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

What about open element air intakes that do nothing but tell others you wasted $300+?

Smoking diesels are bad, its not cool. You can tune a diesel carefully to have a lot of power and no black smoke, and a turbodiesel is fun bc its torque.

Impressive. CTzens rather want RB/LW dead than donks? Donks should totally be on this list.

I still don’t understand the hate on ls swapped rx7… I know the rotary engine is amazing, and i would keep it, and i am a muscle car guy… And i respect that the wankel engine ia good… But what if an ls swapped rx7 is someones dream car?? Did you thought about that? I am only trying to say, that if people swap a v8 into it, there is a reason for doing it… I hope in the future there is a hashtag that says #stopthehate to all of these cars that get hated because someone doesn’t like it, and then all 12 year old kids say the same because someone said it…
Sorry for my English and i would like to read a post/long answer about this because you all say respect every car, and then hate all that you don’t like…

meh

Rolling coal will never stop…. MURICA!

controversial post….
MotorSwapping is awesome!
RB and LW is awesome!
FLame spitting is awesome!
Chrome wraps is awesome!
colored headlights on BMWS is awesome.
RICE SHould DIE, SLAMMED CARS…ARE purely Despicable
stretched tires and camber is just the stupidest thing ever..