Why oh why do they do it?????

[Spec2 Girl]

Originally posted by taranaki
Istill don't understand why some people insist on spending 1000's of$$$$$s just to make a perfectly reasonable set of wheels look like a circus clown's car.

That’s the thing that amazes me! The money that goes into these cars to make them look stupid. Surely they'd be better off spending that money on making the car go faster and handle better??!!!???

[Setanta]

The whole rice thing annoys the hell out of me. I've seen CRXs with great lines being destroyes as paople rice them out. I'm old school I guess - keep the lines and enhance the car with wheels suspension and engine and let the original job do the rest.

[HogieGT-R]

no see it's not the lights that bother me, but the huge ass bookshelf wings and the fart pipes that piss me off becasue you're not gonna get any gain outta that when u got a Civic DX or something.... i do think that some body kits are nice looking, but you have to have the speed and the handling to match it.... the lights don't bother me all that much seeing if you were coming from the center of las vegas or something, also another thing that really pisses me off is seeing cars that are so low to the ground that they can't even go over a speed bump without ripping something out of the car....and those crazy camber and toe angles on the wheels are just plain wrong! you know what i mean when you look at the wheels and they look like they're bout to fall off cuz they're at such a severe angle....it's called taking of the basics first , engine, transmission, suspension, brakes and tires, no bookshelf wings, no dumb ass decals, and no fuckin fart pipes that wake up the damn neighborhood at 2:30 in the morning when you're trying to sleep!

[Firebird]

Personally I think riced out cars are funny as hell because I can just see someone my age taking some shitbox and instead of tring to make it look better they waste all of their money on dumb crap that doesn't do anything or in fact hurts your speed and power by adding extra weight. I mean those big assed wing have to weigh like 20-30lbs. their HUGE! not only that but they add downforce (aka drag) and unless you have enough power to make that worthwhile you are just adding to your problems, in addition if your car is front drive like a lot of the rice mobiles are why the hell would you force down the back, doing so would make the car harder to turn at high speed because the front is lighter and the back is much heavier. secondly, on the ground-scraping ride height, yes a car that rides that low does look pretty cool but it is so impractical that it borders on stupidity. if you seriously want to ride that low at least run air bag suspension so you can lift it up when you want to go that way you don't bust your car to shit on a rock driving down the road. and lastly about the camber angles that is unexcusable thats just fucking stupid it serves no purpose it kills your tires and bearings and it makes you look like you get your car worked on by Joe the half-assed mechanic. I've said it once and I'll say it agian I except not responsablility for the stupidity brought about by members of my generation we really aren't all riced out shit box drivers some of us really do care about how our car looks and we never fuck up a good thing we only make them better, I only wish there were more like us and less of them.

[NSX-R-SSJ20K]

PMS for americans and PMT for english folk is a nusance to men all over the world !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

no just playin

i know how you feel but its their car and they can do what they like as long as they stay the fuck away from me and my car

[Firebird]

I totally agree though as long as I stay cool I'm good but seriously I can't belive how expensive that crap is and people still buy it big wings are $500+ and those mufflers are like 200-300 thats a lot of damn money for little or no performance gain. I just laugh at cars like that though, I can't belive someone can waste $5000 on just a bunch of crap that doesn't do anything I mean seriously if you want to draw attention make alot of power or make something that can handle like a son of a bitch. don't just waste money on a bunch of junk cause if you ever get called out and your car only looks fast you'll look like even more of a fool when you get your ass handed to you.

[taranaki]

We went to a show on the weekend....some of the cars in the car park were worthy of a whole thread of their own..............

It's getting to the point where we need to employ some style police...give them a big sledgehammer each..and some anti-rice formula!

[tazdev]

I'm too tired right now but I will post pics tommorow for you all to laugh/ cringe at

[tazdev]

WHY???

[primera man]

LOL....And thats only 3 of them that we saw

[tazdev]

someone has seen too much fast and the furious

[tazdev]

or just plian hideous colour combinations

[taranaki]

It's times like this that the diesel starts to look attractive

looks like a mission for.....

[Spec2 Girl]

OMG, they were sooo bad! The Skyline one (Moondog’s expression says it all really!) doesn't look half as bad in the picture as it was in real life though. That nice scratched paintwork and bits of cardboard stuck on the side, only 3 matching wheels and did I mention that paintwork! :hehehe: Very, very sad!

[moondog]

Originally posted by FTO Girl
OMG, they were sooo bad! The Skyline one (Moondog’s expression says it all really!) doesn't look half as bad in the picture as it was in real life though. That nice scratched paintwork and bits of cardboard stuck on the side, only 3 matching wheels and did I mention that paintwork! :hehehe: Very, very sad!

hmmmm... let's see.......

The car was two different colours - blue and purple. The paint was very obviously applied with a spray can - you could see the marks. The bonnet was scratched and totally "un-glossy". The number plate was cut around the edges of the letters/numbers. Three of the wheels were the standard 15" R33 GTS wheels, and one was a standard R32 GTS wheel with the centre cap removed. The stripes on the side (you can only just make them out in the picture) looked like they were cut out of cardboard (I'm serious!) and glued on - and they were starting to come off in bits.

I could have cried. Poor whale