DrBoost said:Citroen SM
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You must live up by Dave Burnham, my dad's SM just left there last weekend..
Here in Knoxville it's definitely the f250's followed closely by the Wranglers. Top victim in the car ranks is the 350/370Z and their Infiniti cousins.
None. Early oughts it was black Jettas. There will ALWAYS be black Suburbans. Then there was black Sonatas when they became attractive looking. E36 M3 ton of Versas first time around just like the redesign of the Sonata. Right now I'm actually not sure. Whatever will make the K St/Capitol Hill crowd look important. There is a low rider Toyota pickup in sort of my neighborhood that will destroy itself if the way he creamed on a scantily clad high schooler is any evidence this past week. I was checking his ride he was prepping to wreck on her visage. That is about it. Nothing. And that's kinda shocking if you follow my Instagram occasional posts. 
DrBoost said:Citroen SM
no teh cray oh. sorry for the Spainglish.
Subarus.
Plastidipped wheels, bunch of stickers on the rear window, rallyarmor mud flaps.
Add flat brimmed hat and excessive vaping to taste.
One of the big reasons I went Mitsu for my AWD Turbo sedan, very rare in these parts.
Nissan patrol, followed by landcruisers. Then maybe commodores tied with Falcons.
I need to drive north to the city to see any nice European cars...
I'm seeing a lot of this sort of thing, and it makes me sad.
Seattle? VW van/bus/westfalia. Never seen so many.
Dodge Cummins trucks. Hands down. Usually the mods are massive mud tires, big stickers that say something like "I'd rather be Cummin than 'strokin" and pictures of Calvin peeing on bowties.
Oh, and camo fender flares and gun racks.
A close second is any compact car that doesn't deserve it: A 1995 Saturn with a plywood spoiler and painted some obnoxious color using a paintbrush. A Dodge Neon 4-door automatic with a failing O2 sensor, a fartcan, a black sooty rear bumper, green LEDs in the windows and bald tires.
It's nice to know the giant truck thing isn't localized to this area. It seems like every kid who was into F&F Hondas in the early 2000's started shopping for camo clothes at Cabellas, shaved their head and grew a goatee and switched to lifted diesels with rockstar wheels.
4x4 crew cab diesel trucks. Most common mods are three foot lift kits, muffler removal, and truck nutz.
Man, for a community of people who modify cars, we sure hate vehicles modified by other people.
Keith Tanner said:Man, for a community of people who modify cars, we sure hate vehicles modified by other people.
No, it's more like "we love the band, we just hate their fans"
Trans_Maro said:Keith Tanner said:Man, for a community of people who modify cars, we sure hate vehicles modified by other people.
No, it's more like "we love the band, we just hate their fans"
It's more calling a spade a spade with me. I'll comment on nicely modified cars and talk to their owners, even stance bros. It's the ones with cut springs, severely curb rashed wheels, busted front lips, rust spots that extend through the fenders, wheel arches that look like they were rolled or pulled by smashing them with a bat, and drive around attempting to look "hard" that I'm pretty leery of.
Oh and anyone with a "Cumm'in inside her" stickers around here. Those people can berkeley right on off for a lot of reasons.
every wrangler by me has hideous aftermarket wheels and a giant led lightbar either on the roof, hood, or bumper.
Another one that seems to be extremely popular around here is Dodge chargers. Lots of vinyl stripe kits and 24"+ wheels. Those and the F250s are the most common modified vehicles around here. Which was the original questions asked. I'm passing no judgements about the modifications nor the owners that modified them.
wheelsmithy said:I'm seeing a lot of this sort of thing, and it makes me sad.
The excessive LED bars, the goofy fabricated bumper, ore the "angry eyes" light cover?
I am seeing alot of "coal rollers" these days ....
There are a couple big trucks locally that I like. One guy had a standard cab Ford with 48's? 52's? It was absurd. He did a darn good job cutting away sheet metal to fit tires that were way bigger than he could have fit otherwise. Another kid had an 80's Dodge Cummins that was moderately lifted and had stunning paint. More and more of the JK jeeps locally are running no fenders which I don't like, but there was a bright blue one with a light blue top and white pinstripes that I did like.
I like to see what the kids at the local highschool are modifying. Mostly trucks, a few Nissan/Infinity 350 type cars that are super low. One old G-body with purple metal flake paint that was hard to look at on sunny days it was so shiny. There is also the one kid with a 1980ish Civic Hatch that is a little garish with a huge H on the hood, but otherwise clean.
A guy had purple LED's in his wheel wells at the football game the other night and the only thing I found offensive about them is that he didn't go through the trouble to craft a panel to cover the gap between the bed and the frame. The wheel well was a nice soft purple, the frame was a nice soft purple, and they were separated by a thick black shadow. So very close, and yet.........
'Round these parts it's a roughly even split between WRXs, Hondas (Civics and Accords), Audi A4s, and BMW E46s and E90s. Most seem to be driven by asshats who think they're a lot more skilled than they are, and as such are entitled to weave in and out of traffic at supralegal speeds (bear in mind that most days the average highway speed is already 20+ over the posted limit). Some brodozers and such, but they're a minority.
I realized I'm encountering a lot of loud S197 Mustangs now. I'm not upset about this at all.
Jeep Wrangler/Yjs. all done up to go off roading, never dirty, never dusty. There are 4 of them alone in the parking garage at work.
There is a Girl with an XJ with a full external rack. It's rusty from her kayaks going on top. At least she uses her jeep like a jeep
Trucks of any mfgr. Subaru’s and Honda’s are all about even in term of numbers.
I live in south-central Connecticut lately and it seems like trucks get modified a lot. Not that they need them here but they're huge and therefore perhaps more useful for profiling. Local culture seems quite heavily based on posturing and driving like jackasses so big trucks with all the nonsense that goes with seems common here.
I live in the Daytona Beach area. You can still drive, and park on some parts of the beach here. (although city leaders are trying their best to take that away)
I have friends that work on the beach-- setting up rental umbrellas and chairs. They frequently pull stuck vehicles out of the sand with their 4-wheelers.
9 out of 10 vehicles that get stuck are giant pickup trucks--- with that odd squat where the back is lower than the front. Many of these are "rollin coal" and punch the throttle to look cool......digging themselves a nice hole in the sand. I'm not sure where these kids are getting the $$ for these things, as most of them have crazy scaffolding bracing the frame, and chrome suspension components / giant wheel and tire packages. I'd bet many of these are $70K trucks and more.
It's a strange phenomenon.....this big goofy truck popularity. Camo and excessive lighting seems to be the fashion trend of the day.
Not my region, but was recently in Maui, and noticed that compared to Oregon, all the giant 4x4s there have big tires, but not *tall*; so these trucks were easily a foot or so shorter than their PNW counterparts, despite being on wide, fat tires. Not needing to clear tall tires, they also (mostly) weren't lifted.
Also, thanks to the rental fleet driving around there, I think I know where 73% of the global automatic Mustang convertible production went.
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