You can only make one modification to your next car, what are you upgrading?

Colin
By Colin Wood
Jul 27, 2022 | Shop Work, Upgrade, Discussion, Modify

Photography Credit: Courtesy Mercedes-Benz

Congrats, you’ve just been given $1 million dollars to buy and modify your next car–daily driver, track machine or something else–but you can only make one modification to the car.

What car are you buying, and what single mod are you making to it?

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Noddaz
Noddaz GRM+ Memberand PowerDork
7/26/22 3:30 p.m.

How extensive can the one mod be?

Say a 1967 Corvette convertible with a c6 chassis under it?   Or is that more than one mod?  lol

Colin Wood
Colin Wood Associate Editor
7/26/22 3:32 p.m.

In reply to Noddaz :

I was thinking more along the lines of coil-overs or a set of specific tires, but I like your thinking.

I'll allow it.

Tom1200
Tom1200 UltraDork
7/26/22 3:37 p.m.

Sway bars if it didn't come with a rear bar. 

If it does dampers/shocks.

 

bmxr
bmxr New Reader
7/26/22 3:42 p.m.

$1mm and only one mod?  911 GT3 Cup Car and some fuzzy dice. 

Colin Wood
Colin Wood Associate Editor
7/26/22 3:43 p.m.

In reply to bmxr :

Color-matched to the car, too?

GameboyRMH
GameboyRMH GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
7/26/22 3:50 p.m.

The solution here is to pick a supercar that doesn't need mods. Went down the list of EV supercars and didn't find one I liked that meets the budget (or doesn't leave too much on the table). So, Gumpert Apollo and a data logger system (more useful than fuzzy dice). If my memory was better I could probably remember which mods made the biggest difference from NFS: Shift 2 Unleashed, but it's more than fine in stock form.

93EXCivic
93EXCivic MegaDork
7/26/22 3:59 p.m.
GameboyRMH said:

The solution here is to pick a supercar that doesn't need mods.

If that is direction we are going, I'd have to say Caterham 7 of some sort. Probably 620R or 620S plus second set of wheels and tires?

 

Do replacing tires with better ones one a set wear out count as a mod? Cause if they do, tires. If not, coilovers.

yupididit
yupididit PowerDork
7/26/22 4:08 p.m.

The bodykit in that photo is the 1 mod I'd love to make to my 190e.

dculberson
dculberson MegaDork
7/26/22 4:14 p.m.

A McLaren (sadly not an F1 any more) and one of those barefoot gas pedal things.

SV reX
SV reX MegaDork
7/26/22 4:16 p.m.

Tires. 

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