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
That mustang is a terrible example. That’s going to shoot smoke no matter what. On normal trucks yes, but it’ll never stop with race motors.
Am I the only one who thinks that RB and LW kits are still awesome?
I love how Carthrottle is always like “real car guys respect all build” and then go “except all of these”
I actually like color changing headlights… as long as you dont act like your a cop. That happened once and I watched state troopers pounce on that quicker than a donut.
Say what you want, but I love colored headlights.
Sorry, but I actually really like the RB/LW kits.
Yay, Diskloks aren’t on the list! Phew!
One man’s junk is another man’s treasure. This attitude is the sort of thing that would eventually kill off car culture, and along with it, any sort of creativity that doesn’t look restrained.
So basically you cant modify your OWN car cosmetically without it being hated on nice job carthrottle! :)
You keep posting these lists but you don’t realize the people building these rides could care less about your opinion, they build THEIR cars with THEIR money that THEY worked for to THEIR taste for THEIR pleasure.