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if this is the new fad for cars i am very afraid. i hate the little fast and furious wanna be rice runners ... but at least i can pretend like i don’t see them ... this is just getting out of hand.









i just dont get it ...

Not seen many/any of those in the UK. But I will keep an eye out and let you know.

A nicely and tastefully modified car can be a thing of beauty, unfortunately, here in essex, tasteful is not in many people's vocabulary (nor is vocabulary) and we have hundreds of crappy saxos and fiestas running around with neon lights and spoilers meant for supercars. It's ridiculous

No doubt driven by baseball cap sporting, burberry wearing teenagers with enough gold hanging round their necks to gold plate Moscow.

With the amount of rain we've had this weekend that doesn't look such a bad idea..

My Grandma wrote:It'll do the garden some good

SHE'S ONLY GOT A WINDOW BOX!

Those things look stupid, they look like an oversized roller skate. I wouldn't fancy changing the wheel if they get a flat.

My theory on modified cars:

1. Driven by insecure kids (on the whole)
2. Modifications tend to be cosmetic bastardisations on a cruddy vehicle (putting lights under a Nova????)
3. Modifications tend to be worth/cost more than the vehicle value
4. Most modifications are unsubtle—almost the same as having one's hair dyed or getting piercings... it's a way for the insecure to be outwardly noticed without having to get a character or personality transplant
5. Most kids can't afford these modifications anyway. If they had, they'd have simply saved up for a ncie car in the first place.

hehehehe

The only vehicle I ever modified was my Sierra Cosworth owned around the mid to late 90s, which I spent a few £k on to get it up to around 450-500bhp. There was nothing on the exterior which made it look anything but normal. It was a pet project for me at the time.

I do have to laugh at the kids these days with their stupidly big engine-killing exhausts, bodykits and lights. One day they grow up and realise that for the same money they could have had a decent car in the first place.

The 'pimp my ride' culture springing from the United Grates and spreading over here is a waste of disposable income. To many of the teens borrowing/saving money for a souped up, streetwise motor, I'd recommend they spend their money more wisely on Biactol and athletes' foot poweder, and save up the rest for a decent motor. And no, I don't mean saving up £3k for a smoking, rattling old SuperPoo UnImpressed-a.



(Can anyone tell that boy/girl racers and 'modifiers' pee me off?)

I was driving the other day with a couple of chavs decided to try to race me. Stopped at a traffic lights with a horrible little 105 alongside me reving his engine and some girl in a corsa sitting right on my bumper reving up.

I can't be bothered with any of that so just let them go speeding off. Lovely people, the girl even made a charming hand signal at me as she went past.

Nope I'm not their biggest fan either.

I sincerely hope it doesn't catch on!

When I'm stood at the bus stop doing me bit for the environment (I have got a car but it's too much hassle just to go into town, and it gets in the way of drinking) and a souped up Corsa comes by going BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM, I can't help thinking about anthropology. In nature, overt display is all about attracting a mate. The guy in the Corsa is shouting: "Look at me, ladeez. I'm an 8ft fluorescent green peacock with a tiny diddly-do".

Whenever I see (or rather hear) one of those ridiculous little "boom-boom-boom" cars, I always like to imagine that the "cockpit" is sound-proofed and that the driver is actually listening to Classic FM.

Sad little idiots, the lot of them.

The only things I would modify on a car I owned would be to hinge the doors so they swing up (It's like a spaceship! ) and to put an entertainment system in the back for tailgating at Patriots games.

A quick google turned up this great site:
http://www.barryboys.co.uk/mx/index.php

"Over 42,000 photos of s**t looking cars!" ... Love it!!

Yorkshire Pudding wrote:A quick google turned up this great site:
http://www.barryboys.co.uk/mx/index.php

"Over 42,000 photos of s**t looking cars!" ... Love it!!

There are some truly horrible cars in there!

Classless society, eh? Tasteless more like! And what is it with putting drop valves on everything? It sounds like the engine's got asthma.

Well, I had a dump-valve on my car before they were fashionable, and did everything in my power to make it silent.

The dump valve craze is something of an oddity, as most of the idiots who now are using them don't understand the physical necessity for them or why they are there.

Mine was fitted for a good reason!