Questionable modifications: pictures inside!

[Gotbeefboy564]

Most of the SEMA cars I like, sure most are over customized but I like the rest.

 

[Joey D]

That's my thing right there. The builders start adding too much stuff that it starts to draw attention away from the car. I honestly see no reason to give cars lots of equipment and gadgets that have no other purpose but to grab attention. Sooner or later the people are going to start hating the cars because they just have way too much. I personally like some of the cars from SEMA, but that's when they don't over do it.

SEMA isn't really about the cars as much as it's about the products. If attention gets taken away from the car no one cares as long as people are looking at the products. SEMA is still a trade show and it's main purpose is to sell things to vendors, not build cars for people on the Internet to like/dislike.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

Exactly Silverfire, you don't need to put that much stuff on a car to attract attention. You can do better with less nonsense on a car. Focus on other traits for a car than just cosmetic stuff.

 

[Joey D]

Exactly Silverfire, you don't need to put that much stuff on a car to attract attention. You can do better with less nonsense on a car. Focus on other traits for a car than just cosmetic stuff.

It's easier (and cheaper) to cram stuff one car instead of buying three cars to show off stuff. I imagine floor space at SEMA is expensive, as is transporting the vehicles there from where ever they are built.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

It's easier (and cheaper) to cram stuff one car instead of buying three cars to show off stuff. I imagine floor space at SEMA is expensive, as is transporting the vehicles there from where ever they are built.

Where in that post did I say bring more than one car?
All I said is that you don't need to put too much cosmetic stuff to get attention from people on a car and focus on more than one area. It's possible to make a car look good and do other things.

 

[Slash]

It's easier (and cheaper) to cram stuff one car instead of buying three cars to show off stuff. I imagine floor space at SEMA is expensive, as is transporting the vehicles there from where ever they are built.

It's $4,000 for the smallest booth, which is 10'x10' 100 square feet, and it's $18,000 just for a 20'x20' booth and 400 square feet. The biggest exhibits you can get in certain configurations go for $675,000 and you get 19,200 square feet of rental space.


...and that's only a subtotal.

 

[Joey D]

Where in that post did I say bring more than one car?
All I said is that you don't need to put too much cosmetic stuff to get attention from people on a car and focus on more than one area. It's possible to make a car look good and do other things.

SEMA is about showing off products. If a vendor put less stuff on a car to make it "look good" then they would have to bring along additional vehicles to show off all of their products. It's just easier to throw everything on one vehicle and display that. Plus a car with a lot going on will draw attention, so that's just an added plus.

 

[Slash]

Given the prices of rentals I can kind of see why they'd go through all that trouble to show everything off that they could. They also need to make up for that, I don't want to say loss, in sales (which if it's any reputable company it should be fairly easy anyways).


Anyways:

 

[Sage Ages]

Hellaflush yo!

 

[MedigoFlame]

Guessing you got that from Jalopnik?

I don't find stanced cars to be that bad, unless they have giant chrome wheels and massive amounts of camber... But then, this. A competition to see who doesn't scrape their car... I would not bother to attend this.

 

[GT Pro]

Stance might be yet another fad where the modifications (in this case, explicitly) follow form over function, but it's one of the only fads I can think of that makes the subject cars of modification look, most of the time, better (see pics below of otherwise very ordinary cars). You don't get that with donks, VIP, DUB, rice, or show cars.

And when I say 'stance' I don't mean that stupid hella or mexi-flush stuff and its ridiculous camber.

 

[ProjectWHaT]

*points at my avatar*
Like that?

 

[GT Pro]

WRX with custom seats inspired by female genitalia:

http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/larapinta/cars-vans-utes/1998-subaru-wrx-wagon/1030323744

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

ewww, why would someone want their car's interior to look like that?

Aww, that impreza would look better in WR blue mica with a black & silver interior.

 

[The Stig Farmer]

Nice

 

[Gotbeefboy564]

Ok seriously????

 

[The Stig Farmer]

 

[Gotbeefboy564]

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

It's kinda questionable.

 

[Slash]

Get that badge off that damn thing RIGHT NOW.

 

[Lotus Exige S]

I don't like the Celica Eleanor, but the 302 one is pretty cool 👍. I think if I was doing an engine swap in a Celica of that vintage, though, I'd add in a BMW I-6. Easy to modify, sounds great, and is a wonderful performance engine that loves to rev.

X2

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

Hellaflush yo!

Not sure the MR2 driver knows how a rear wing works.

 

[Downhill Dino]

What a way to ruin the TRD kit.

 

[R5]

I quite like the Cinqueaventador thing

 

[MedigoFlame]

I'm not big on the whole stance thing as I've said before. And...if I'm honest, I don't find big cars like the Lexus LS done like this that bad. That is...not in this horrid color combo.

 

[ProjectWHaT]

I like people putting aggressive kits on the new aggressive Lexuses. IMHO it fits them well.

 

[Minty]

Pulled into the parking lot at work as I was headed in. It isn't terribly overdone, or anything, just seems like a really strange car to do that to.

 

[Slash]

The fact that it a van made me lol.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

 

[Sage Ages]

They had to ruin an Impala. They couldn't just buy a retired Caprice for <$1000.