[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Stupid Car Trends (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 3/22/2008 7:37:42 PM EDT
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I was just thinking of all the stupid car trends that thankfully are short lived. feel free to add to the list. Wiper Spoilers Curb Feelers Big assed spoilers (fairly recent) lights under the car spinners balls on the back lowered pick ups what else ? whats next? |
My lowered S10 project truck says you blow.  ETA: Lowered 4-wheel drives Decals for parts not on your car The bolt-on aisle at Pep Boys The whole Fast and Furious rice image Body kits to make vehicles LOOK lowered |
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BMW nightmares everything on those 11 pages are a crime to BMW drivers everywhere. |
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You wouldn't like Florida. Occasionally the damn fart cans on a 4 banger are droned out by pure unadulterated V8 300+ HP engines, but those are few and far apart. I think I saw some dickhole with a ground hugging front thinky and a fart can on his 06 GTO  . You just don't rice up American (Holden) cars.And the freaking huge ass wheels covered in chrome on sedans makes me laugh my ass off. |
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A new one for me today: Big "tiny penis syndrome" dually Ford F350 (or comparably sized Chevy or Dodge Ram) with HUGE "semi style" rims and LOW profile tires, to give a more or less "normal" ride height. And the truck had enough chrome on it that it probably caused a spike in chromium futures prices. It was pretty absurd.  CJ |
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Curb feelers?? They were a necessary accessory around the time I got interested in cars. People who didn't have them either parked two feet from the curb so not to mess up the white walls or wheel covers, or drove around with smashed wheel covers and scuff marks all over the white walls that required a lot of muscle and SOS pad to remove. Yeah....I'm old.
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I makes me wince when I see an expensive rim with major curb scrapes.  Saw one that had a chunk broken out. Or polished aluminum rims that are corroded from neglect. Mother's polish and wax!
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1) Virtually every SUV made. So many posers that never leave pavement, have single-child families (or none at all) and don't need 5000 lbs and 7 seats to take their single selves to work. 2) Crossover vehicles. Why? So you can pretend a little less that you're going to go off road? 3) Back to #1- the newer, more powerful SUV's. Why waste 400+ hp on 6000 lbs, when you could have put it in 3000lbs or less and actually enjoy it? 4) Putting various stickers of various performance parts companies on your car to advertise what you probably don't have installed. 5) Any vehicle that gets under 17 mpg in the city or 25 on the highway and can't hit the 1/4 mile traps in at least the 13's. Bad gas mileage should only be a result of making serious power, and having serious performance. Anything less means you might as well drill a hole in your gas tank and drive, as you're not receiving a reward for your poor consumption. 6) Retro crap. $40,000 for the new Challenger? Who knows what the new Camaro will cost, but both it and the Challenger are years late to the retro party. Mustang and even the New Beatle had you beat years earlier. Look at the C6 Vette. It only shares a name with the original and is great in every way. |
He can go 300,000 miles on a set of tires. Can you? |
Garfield 
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FTW! |
No shit. It's always the fuckwits that use the trendy kid names but spell them differently because, well, their little snowflake is unique so why shouldn't the name be? I don't fuking care that you have daughters named "Hanah" and "Kelee" and a dog named "McAlister" you dumb fuck.
I always thought those were stupid. "In Memory of PeteCO". WHAT exactly is in memory of him? The sticker? The car? The back windshield? What the fuck? If I get smoked and some dumbass starts handing out vinyl stickers in memoriam of me ("hey Bob, here's a sticker for your car in memory of Pete"), I'm going to come back as some Andre the giant like mutant and sodomize them. |
I thought curb feelers were just for old people who couldn't drive well  .
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+1 Damn, I hate that shit. That, and also anything 4wd that has been lowered and/or had big ass wheels and low profile tires. It's not the wheels, etc, that gets me as much, but the fact that they do it to a 4x4. If you are going to render the 4wd useless at least use a 2wd version of it to ruin.... |
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www.rentnroll.com Exhaust stacks on Diesel pickups. They have the pump turned up a 100hp chip and an exhaust brake. Along with 20k in Protech chrome. All so you can brag to your buddys that you can pull 2x what the vehicle is rated for over a steep ass grade. Just buy a medium duty truck for christ sakes! |