Questionable modifications: pictures inside!

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TexRex
As we lower a car, its bottom half shrinks while its greenhouse remains the same and the lowered car is left in a state of visual imbalance.
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But with today's crash safety requirements, the beltline on most cars have been higher than ever. So wouldn't lowering a car, shrinking the bottom half, balance the shape of the car?
 
ProjectWHaT
But with today's crash safety requirements, the beltline on most cars have been higher than ever. So wouldn't lowering a car, shrinking the bottom half, balance the shape of the car?
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Sure...if designers simply took designs prior to modern requirements and bloated them below the beltline. I like to think a little more effort goes into it than that.
 
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On its own, 996 Turbo wheels - although it would have to sport Toyota centre caps to not annoy me - would be a sweet mod. That's just ruining it.
 
TexRex
Sure...if designers simply took designs prior to modern requirements and bloated them below the beltline. I like to think a little more effort goes into it than that.
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Camaro, Mustang, Challenger.
 
Disregard.
 
Tornado
Camaro, Mustang, Challenger.
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Yeah I was still in the "excessive lowering is bad" frame of mind and hadn't viewed it from the retro money-grab angle.

Edit: I really intended to copy the quote and edit the above statement; whoops!
 
The Amarok didn't really exist when that styling was still being used by VW, it's a specific generation of the VW Saveiro.
 
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That is so strange, wheels from a Foxbody Mustang Cobra on a SVT Focus.

Turbo
The Mustang SVT Cobra R rims on it do not match the car at all though.
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They're actually from the regular Cobra. The Cobra R had 3-spoke wheels.
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LivingWithGames
Ew.
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I'm going to say that if anything can pull off angular 3-spokes, it's that gen of Civic. I can't believe Europe has gone from that and its successor to the horrid, oversized mess that is the new one.
 
I feel like that's in the wrong thread. Put ir in Odd Modified car thread and you're golden.

That steering 'wheel' though, you'd need tough gloves for that one. Ouch.
 
that steering wheel screams "Death awaits yee who drives me"
 
I would hate to touch that steering wheel in the summer.
 
SVX
I remember when this thread was about questionable modifications, instead of modifications that just aren't to someone's taste.
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So what you're looking for is a one single unified opinion on whats questionable? Yeah, not gonna happen.
 
ImaRobot
So what you're looking for is a one single unified opinion on whats questionable? Yeah, not gonna happen.
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It's a bit different when questionable is somehow considered to be wheels from a Mustang. Sure, it can look out of place, but it's hardly a concerning, questionable decision. But that's just me.
 
SVX
It's a bit different when questionable is somehow considered to be wheels from a Mustang. Sure, it can look out of place, but it's hardly a concerning, questionable decision. But that's just me.
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A lot of people also find ride height to be questionable. You're essentially doing what you've complained about in the past; Just like you think everyone has they're own idea's of tastefulness, the same goes for what's questionable.
 
ImaRobot
A lot of people also find ride height to be questionable. You're essentially doing what you've complained about in the past; Just like you think everyone has they're own idea's of tastefulness, the same goes for what's questionable.
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I'm not saying it's only tasteful or anything, but I think the questionable-ness of a Focus with Mustang wheels isn't really the same thing as 2001 rice era imports, or genuine what-the-hell decisions. I don't look at the Focus and question his life decisions the same way as a Corolla made of bog.
 
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