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
Car Throttle should change their name to Purist Throttle. Some of these aren’t bad.
rotories are swaped out for a reason haha :D
How about you mind your own business and let me do to my car what i want to do…
rolling coal because FREEDOM!!!!!
It’s not about freedom it ruins the engine
Aero can improve a lap time event on a 200BHP car, a lot of time attack car use big wings
But I love rocket bunny and LB kits :(
You take out the Rotary engine so it can work… i am with Matt Farah and Mr. Regular on this one
Rolling Coal should be #1.
ROCKET BUNNY AND LIBERTY WALK WILL STAY I DONT WANTEM TO LEAVE
Here’s why those who shoot flames and roll coal are more genuine car guys than whoever wrote this, and here’s why the ‘trend’ isn’t going anywhere. First of all, they aren’t trends, they’ve been around for at least my lifetime, so theres two decades, pretty long for a trend. Second, on the subject of rolling coal you talk about how it looks dumb and isn’t good for your truck in the video and then you go and FCKING CONDONE DOING BURNOUTS. Do you realize the wear and tear burnouts put on your fcking rearend, your axle shafts, bearings, differential, u-joints, driveshaft, and clutch, not to mention your fcking tires (you know those $200 a piece black rubber things that you’re just fcking vaporizing because it looks cool)? That’s the most backwards hypocritical thing I’ve ever fcking heard in terms of automotive stunts. I personally love burnouts, and I love rolling coal and shooting flames. All of these activities emulate a certain type of racing or automotive feat. Burnouts come from drag racing and drifting, back fires come from trying to be Ken Block, and rolling coal comes from truck pulls and big rig racing. It’s all the same sht and it’s all fun. That’s what cars are all about to us people who claim to like them right? Aren’t cars more than just appliances to us? People who roll coal aren’t doing it to be any more douchey than those who peel out at green lights, they’re mostly doing it because it garners a few laughs and they think it looks cool. the fact that a well respected site like car throttle is hating on ‘Coal Rollers’ for enjoying themselves behind the wheel is frankly disgusting, because I guarantee anybody on this site does what they do with there car because they enjoy it and they think it looks cool. Congratulation’s on alienating a whole goddamned demographic of gear heads for doing the exact same thing you all do. Car guys started out way back in the day with no other motive than to have more fun in their cars, you guys have managed to make being a car guy all about shtting all over other peoples’ cars because it doesn’t match your taste. F*ck off.
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the “shooting flames” bit is probably referring to those people who put fake flame kits on their cars to make it look like the car is actually shooting flames, when in reality it’s just extra fuel, nitrous, or etc. being dropped directly into the exhaust.