If someone says M badge on a BMW that's demerits.
If someone says M badge on a BMW that's demerits.
Box Crown Victoria’s and Grand Marquis
Focus and countour go from bleh to pretty good with the svt appearance packages.
Full size american cars of the 80s all look awful on stock wheels. With fat circle track steelies, they suddenly look mean.
With just a tiny bit of body work, the Volga looks pretty good.
No...
Hell no...
Yes!
1st gen Taurus sedan to SHO
I was thinking 1st Gen MR2 without spoiler vs with spoiler.
Chopping the top of just about anything makes it look cooler.
Ford Mavericks can be made to look pretty nice.
A lot of cars from the 70's look better with backdated bumpers. Here's a '74 US market Ford/Mercury Capri;
Here's a '72 Ford Capri RS3100, which can be emulated using the bumpers from the '73 and earlier Capri and cutting up the front bumper;
The paint and wheel change helps a lot but, for me, it all starts at the bumper.
The much much maligned Pontiac Aztek should never have been launched with black textured lower paneling. Once they smoothed it out and painted it body color, the vehicles didn't exactly look good, but they no longer looked comically bad. I honestly think that if they had launched that was from the stat it wouldn't have the undesirable reputation it has today.
Vs
And don't forget all you need to do is dip this 
Into this
And you'll cure all of it's looks issues
Dave said:
Ford Mavericks can be made to look pretty nice.
The blue car looks nice, but a big part of that is that the green car has too many doors!
Everything looks better with a a wheel swap. Except wide starquests and bandit t/as.
Invest $500 in a set of Kosei K1s or $600 in a set of Enkei RPF1s of the appropriate size. Bolt on. ANY car looks better.
Paint the black rockers on any ‘90s Honda product to match the body. Done.
Adrian_Thompson said:The much much maligned Pontiac Aztek should never have been launched with black textured lower paneling. Once they smoothed it out and painted it body color, the vehicles didn't exactly look good, but they no longer looked comically bad. I honestly think that if they had launched that was from the stat it wouldn't have the undesirable reputation it has today.
Vs
That's one where I think it probably looks better with different wheels.
Ed Higginbotham said:
Still proud of this.
Mine: gmt400 trucks. Swap to late gmc grill, and hit it hard with the lowering stick. Instant awesome from old man.
Adrian_Thompson said:The much much maligned Pontiac Aztek should never have been launched with black textured lower paneling. Once they smoothed it out and painted it body color, the vehicles didn't exactly look good, but they no longer looked comically bad. I honestly think that if they had launched that was from the stat it wouldn't have the undesirable reputation it has today.
They made a tent to hide the back end, all it needs is one for the front too...
mainlandboy said:Dave said:
Ford Mavericks can be made to look pretty nice.
The blue car looks nice, but a big part of that is that the green car has too many doors!
I always wanted to do the treatment the blue car got to a 4 door. The shaved down wheelwells, lowered, small bumpers, Euro style mods and a powerful V8.
Then I got an actual BMW and the urge has subsided. ;)
codrus said:Adrian_Thompson said:The much much maligned Pontiac Aztek should never have been launched with black textured lower paneling. Once they smoothed it out and painted it body color, the vehicles didn't exactly look good, but they no longer looked comically bad. I honestly think that if they had launched that was from the stat it wouldn't have the undesirable reputation it has today.
They made a tent to hide the back end, all it needs is one for the front too...
I really think that if it were introduced now, it'd fit right in with the rest of the crossovers:
Maybe the same 5 spoke wheels in 19 or 20" to make it more modern. Or not:
Take bumpers off any Mk1 VW.
ls400
wheels, flares, lows... as proven by Andy during $2015 Challenge
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