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I love cars with big bolt on flares and negative offset wheels, but they aren't to everyones taste.
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I love cars with big bolt on flares and negative offset wheels, but they aren't to everyones taste.
I don't mind it, and it's certainly tasteful, but I've become truly bored of the VW modifying scene.Its missing a bonnet, But other than that its pretty sweet
I don't mind it, and it's certainly tasteful, but I've become truly bored of the VW modifying scene.
Normally it'd be one of those cases where I'd say, "it's time for someone to try something different", but the scene is so big and sprawling that people have tried literally everything, so now everything is played-out. OEM+, rat, Euro-look, race-look, retro, modern, Cal-look, shaved engine bays, tartan, WWII bomber style, window nets, window chicken wire, bucket seats, retrims, chopped roofs, pickup conversions, OEM wheels, Porsche wheels, Bentley wheels, Mercedes wheels, JDM wheels, lowered, slammed, raised, raked, engine swaps... I mean, it's impressive what people have been able to do in terms of variety, but there's very little that makes me think "wow" any more.
Apart from maybe bone-stock. I actually think that right now, a mint condition Mk2 Golf Driver or a standard, kermit-green Lupo Sport without so much as a different air filter would interest me more than a build with thousands in it.
There are certainly a few styles I think look quite good regardless of how often they've been done - and it'd be hypocritical of me to criticise the scene too much, since most of what I plan to do to my Mazda has been done before... but the VW scene gets so much coverage, that nothing has really impressed me recently. It's just like, "oh, that's neat" and then I forget about it entirely.nothing seems to really attract me to the whole VW thing.
Yeah, rarer cars definitely attract me more - I go a bit wobbly whenever I remember the SP-2 exists.The only thing thaqt really makes me go wow is seeing really rare air-cooled VWs of the never-sold-here variety, but that is precisely because of that.
I don't mind it, and it's certainly tasteful, but I've become truly bored of the VW modifying scene.
Normally it'd be one of those cases where I'd say, "it's time for someone to try something different", but the scene is so big and sprawling that people have tried literally everything, so now everything is played-out.
Yup. That's the way I feel too. And I'd almost put money on one of those stickers being the 'shocker' sticker. Which would be an immediate car-crusing offence if I was in charge.There's a Bora moved in just up the road from me. Black. Black BBS CH-R's. De-badged. Lowered, but only a touch. Stretched tyres, but only ever-so-slightly. Clean, really subtly done. Spoiled only, in my eyes, by a set of brightly coloured VW-scene stickers in the back window. You know the ones. Five years ago i'd have admired it for the way it's been tastefully detailed, but i'm so, so sick of the scene that i immediately hate it and it's driver (who i've never even seen).
There are certainly a few styles I think look quite good regardless of how often they've been done - and it'd be hypocritical of me to criticise the scene too much, since most of what I plan to do to my Mazda has been done before... but the VW scene gets so much coverage, that nothing has really impressed me recently. It's just like, "oh, that's neat" and then I forget about it entirely.
Agreed. If you do something well, you can pull off pretty much anything. Some cars in the big wings/bodykits Fast and Furious era of the early 2000s actually looked genuinely good, because people had spent time and effort to make them look good. They might not pass for "tasteful" in this thread, but up close you'd be able to appreciate the craftsmanship involved.It takes a looooot to take risks modifying a car without ruining it
Agreed. If you do something well, you can pull off pretty much anything. Some cars in the big wings/bodykits Fast and Furious era of the early 2000s actually looked genuinely good, because people had spent time and effort to make them look good. They might not pass for "tasteful" in this thread, but up close you'd be able to appreciate the craftsmanship involved.
At the same time, tasteful doesn't necessarily have to equal unimaginative. Sticking BBS RSs on a Golf, lowering it a bit, polishing it and tidying up the engine bay is tasteful, but it's also pretty dull. Maybe that's because it's a Golf and Golfs are pretty dull anyway, but I'm sure that out there somewhere is a way to modify one in an interesting manner. Or, as I hinted earlier, simply to leave it stock but make it as nice as it's possible to make it. That wouldn't really suit this thread either, since we're looking at modified cars, but it'd be a satisfying pursuit.
Its missing a bonnet, But other than that its pretty sweet
There would be no room for the exhaust manifold. The intake plenum just plays tricks on your eyes and makes it look further up front than it really is.Certainly tasteful, but in addition to what has already been said, that engine looks like could have been mounted about a foot further back in the engine bay. I can practically see it understeering while it's standing still.
Could it not look like crap please?
I'd imagine, since it's swapped and all. Only went as far to hear what engine it had in it, and that was predictable but not a bad thing.