What kind of a shzthead moron takes a particularly good handling car and ruins the handling because they think it makes them look cool?
Please save that car from the idiots!
What kind of a shzthead moron takes a particularly good handling car and ruins the handling because they think it makes them look cool?
Please save that car from the idiots!
wspohn said:What kind of a shzthead moron takes a particularly good handling car and ruins the handling because they think it makes them look cool?
Please save that car from the idiots!
Thread went longer than i thought it would before we got a post like this.
In reply to wspohn :
wspohn said:What kind of a shzthead moron takes a particularly good handling car and ruins the handling because they think it makes them look cool?
Please save that car from the idiots!
What do you do with them? You can't drive them. You just go to meets and park the car and stand around with other people who do stupid things to their cars so they can park them.
Seriously. What is the appeal?
In reply to Knurled. :
The cars drive....
Stants
In reply to yupididit :
Yeah, but you can't drive them, just putt around. With no suspension travel, there is no handling.
I mean, okay, you're enjoying yourself and not hurting anybody, so "you do you", but I just can't see the appeal at all. It's like the same thing as guys who lift their trucks and put 44s on them so they can't accelerate, stop, or turn, and they never go 'wheelin because they have no suspension travel either. (That and it's embarassing for them to get schooled by someone in a Wrangler or Samurai on 31s)
That one seemed to be done fairly well. It's the ones that ride on the edge of the tires that bother me. Think they are borderline dangerous.
As long as they enjoy the car then more power to them. Too low for my preference but it's their car. If you do something like that just take the time and effort to do it right so it is safe and I won't mind sharing the road with you. I know people that don't understand my fascination with old sports cars or my slightly modified Miata and racing. I sometimes get funny looks driving my Miata, must be because it is lower than stock and kinda loud with the header and Magnaflow exhaust with an almost bald gray haired old man behind the wheel. Don't care what they think. Get off my lawn.
In reply to Knurled. :
But that’s just it - driving it has no appeal for the owners. The appeal is in how they look. They want them to park, not to drive.
No judgment, just analysis
In reply to jfryjfry :
I'm not judging either, I guess I just don't see the appeal of having something to look at instead of to do something with. When I buy an awesome tool like, for instance, the Matco MMDP:
I don't wax it and set it on a table and show it off to friends and random strangers. It's a tool that has a purpose and will be used to that end.
(Sadly, it does not "make the noise", but it does measure angles to .05 degree, with +-.1 degree tolerance)
I see cars the same way. Yes, there is some aesthetically pleasing elements involved, but those elements revolve around the functionality, and anything super-slammed or super-lifted has no functionality, it's just jewelry.
This is probably why my favorite motorsports revolve around stage rally, especially in the Group A era. Real cars driving real fast on real roads, none of this ultragroomed supersmooth circuit E36 M3.
End threadjack. I have questions about S2000s...
Appreciation of art can come from function, aesthetics, and meaning, or any combination of the three.
Im really into watches. Some watches I love because of how they look, others I appreciate their movement. One doesn't outweigh the other to me. Some people don't get it and say, "it's just jewelry or a clock". Same for my fascination for west African symbolism and ancient Chinese symbolism and folklore.
Its what I love. It's not for anyone to "get". I think as hobbyist and people with a common passion we have to stop trying to "get" why a person.... and just appreciate and encourage a person's expression through a creative medium.
Some folks here have clearly never driven a "stance" car.
With their incredibly high spring rates, low CoG and tiny tires stretched tight they are totally uncomfortable but they are crisp and razor sharp. They can be a lot of fun provided the streets are smooth. Not actually fast but they sure as heck feel like it.
I get it. I wouldn't do it myself, but I get it.
Let 'em have their fun, you can have your own.
Time to find another cloud to yell at.
Knurled. said:End threadjack. I have questions about S2000s...
What questions? I might be able to answer them.
I don't really get or care for the super low stanced look. Here in Michigan that low would eliminate being able to clear a good percentage of rail road tracks, driveways, curbs and parking structures. I was just at the Metro airport parking structure last night and you could see all the scrapes on the concrete on the up and down ramps.
I don't get why people don't modify their cars the way I like.
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