Questionable modifications: pictures inside!

[ProjectWHaT]

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.

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?

 

[TexRex]

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?

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.

 

[Turbo]

 

[VXR]

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.

 

[Tornado]

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.

Camaro, Mustang, Challenger.

 

[TexRex]

Disregard.

 

[TexRex]

Camaro, Mustang, Challenger.

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!

 

[Turbo]

 

[titleguy1]

Okay, the Focus isn't that bad

 

[Tornado]

What was that VW? Amarok or whatever it's called?

 

[CSMDuty11]

The Amarok didn't really exist when that styling was still being used by VW, it's a specific generation of the VW Saveiro.

 

[Turbo]

Okay, the Focus isn't that bad

The Mustang SVT Cobra R rims on it do not match the car at all though.

 

[LivingWithGames]

Ew.

 

[Turbo]

Ew.

The epitome of chav.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

That is so strange, wheels from a Foxbody Mustang Cobra on a SVT Focus.

The Mustang SVT Cobra R rims on it do not match the car at all though.

They're actually from the regular Cobra. The Cobra R had 3-spoke wheels.

 

[MoLiEG]

Ew.

WAT.

It's hideous

 

[VXR]

Ew.

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.

 

[RaY29rus]

I think it looks good.

 

[R5]

Such no

 

[ToyGTone]

Hyundai Elantraghini (They literally called it that):

 

[MedigoFlame]

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Such no

In a way, I think it'd look better without the crazy camber.

 

[Techy]

A Mad Max-mobile!

 

[LivingWithGames]

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.

 

[Zychotic1]

that steering wheel screams "Death awaits yee who drives me"

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

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.

 

[ImaRobot]

I remember when this thread was about questionable modifications, instead of modifications that just aren't to someone's taste.

So what you're looking for is a one single unified opinion on whats questionable? Yeah, not gonna happen.

 

[SVX]

So what you're looking for is a one single unified opinion on whats questionable? Yeah, not gonna happen.

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.

 

[ImaRobot]

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.

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.

 

[SVX]

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.

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.