Pictures of 'Stanced' cars
Discussion
MrBrightSi said:
I think thats where my main problem with this whole fad comes from. It's the antithesis of what i think a car is, it changes it from being a b road mean machine into some sort of field size paperweight.
I just can't understand the logic behind it, particularly when performance versions of cars are spoiled in this way. One thing I see tossed up to justify these tragedies is "Young people can't afford fast cars anymore, so they modify these s
tboxes instead, it's a way of meeting other young, like-minded guys who are just looking for a good time". Take for example, the S2000s. They aren't cheap to run, in terms of tax, fuel or insurance. So if you are going to pay the price of owning a performance car, why modify it to mar the performance? You can't play the "Too expensive to have a fast car" card (one that reeks of any old excuse syndrome when you see a s
tbox Gold TDi with £2000 of wheel on it), because you've already paid the price to get the car on the road in your name. Then you add a few grands worth of wheels, lowering, carbon tat etc and you've got something that costs considerably more than a standard version of the same car, yet drives worse.So if you think that owning a car that you've deliberately made slower is a good idea, and you pay good money for this, how are you anything other than a motoring fashionista?
I'm all for wheel swaps - a lot of the cars in this thread have really nice wheels, I even like a bit of lowering, if it can improve on the handling of the standard car. But when a car is so low that hitting even a minor pothole will cause the tyres to scrub the arches heavily, or the camber is so extreme that the contact patch of the tyres are tiny (and no doubt wearing very quickly too) it says nothing other than "I care more about how my car looks, and how you think my car looks, than how it drives".
Mastodon2 said:
MrBrightSi said:
I think thats where my main problem with this whole fad comes from. It's the antithesis of what i think a car is, it changes it from being a b road mean machine into some sort of field size paperweight.
I just can't understand the logic behind it, particularly when performance versions of cars are spoiled in this way. One thing I see tossed up to justify these tragedies is "Young people can't afford fast cars anymore, so they modify these stboxes instead, it's a way of meeting other young, like-minded guys who are just looking for a good time". Take for example, the S2000s. They aren't cheap to run, in terms of tax, fuel or insurance. So if you are going to pay the price of owning a performance car, why modify it to mar the performance? You can't play the "Too expensive to have a fast car" card (one that reeks of any old excuse syndrome when you see a s
tbox Gold TDi with £2000 of wheel on it), because you've already paid the price to get the car on the road in your name. Then you add a few grands worth of wheels, lowering, carbon tat etc and you've got something that costs considerably more than a standard version of the same car, yet drives worse.So if you think that owning a car that you've deliberately made slower is a good idea, and you pay good money for this, how are you anything other than a motoring fashionista?
I'm all for wheel swaps - a lot of the cars in this thread have really nice wheels, I even like a bit of lowering, if it can improve on the handling of the standard car. But when a car is so low that hitting even a minor pothole will cause the tyres to scrub the arches heavily, or the camber is so extreme that the contact patch of the tyres are tiny (and no doubt wearing very quickly too) it says nothing other than "I care more about how my car looks, and how you think my car looks, than how it drives".
I can't stand FWD cars. Especially people that think their barried up shopping car for old ladies is some kind of wonder vehicle. I especially can't stand it when they fit those unsafe tow eye hooks on the back of those shopping cars. I just don't get why you'd want to drive something so s
t in public. I better post in as many threads as I can to let others know this. Anyone who thinks I'm a dick for saying this doesn't understand democracy since I'm just as entitled to my "oh so witty" opinion as Abu Qatada...Seriously, what did you hope to achieve by your post? Forget the 'I have a right to an opinion' thing. Where's the value or intelligence in your post? What was the aim? Cause if it was to point out you have an overinflated sense of importance and no social calibration. You absolutely nailed it!
Rich_W said:
I can't stand FWD cars. Especially people that think their barried up shopping car for old ladies is some kind of wonder vehicle. I especially can't stand it when they fit those unsafe tow eye hooks on the back of those shopping cars. I just don't get why you'd want to drive something so s
t in public. I better post in as many threads as I can to let others know this. Anyone who thinks I'm a dick for saying this doesn't understand democracy since I'm just as entitled to my "oh so witty" opinion as Abu Qatada...Seriously, what did you hope to achieve by your post? Forget the 'I have a right to an opinion' thing. Where's the value or intelligence in your post? What was the aim? Cause if it was to point out you have an overinflated sense of importance and no social calibration. You absolutely nailed it!
Some of the cars look wonderful as ive said if some minor changes were made they would have me completely sold. i just feel that their efforts do sometimes change wonderful machines in a bad way.
Rich_W said:
I can't stand FWD cars. Especially people that think their barried up shopping car for old ladies is some kind of wonder vehicle. I especially can't stand it when they fit those unsafe tow eye hooks on the back of those shopping cars. I just don't get why you'd want to drive something so s
t in public. I better post in as many threads as I can to let others know this. Anyone who thinks I'm a dick for saying this doesn't understand democracy since I'm just as entitled to my "oh so witty" opinion as Abu Qatada...Seriously, what did you hope to achieve by your post? Forget the 'I have a right to an opinion' thing. Where's the value or intelligence in your post? What was the aim? Cause if it was to point out you have an overinflated sense of importance and no social calibration. You absolutely nailed it!
I just wanted to know why someone would go to the expense of owning a performance car and then taking the "performance" out of the equation, it's like some sort of bad joke. But you don't seem to have any sort of argument against that, though I expect you'll pull the "freedom of expression bro, people can do what they like" card, which will no doubt come with a side-order of irony, as you just tried to use that one against me.
Mastodon2 said:
Wow, what an intelligent and well structured response. So not liking "stanced" cars puts you on the same level as Islamist extremists now? I'll bet the Mensa application is going in any day now, right?
I just wanted to know why someone would go to the expense of owning a performance car and then taking the "performance" out of the equation, it's like some sort of bad joke. But you don't seem to have any sort of argument against that, though I expect you'll pull the "freedom of expression bro, people can do what they like" card, which will no doubt come with a side-order of irony, as you just tried to use that one against me.
He'll probably just call you autistic or something. Best not to take him too seriously.I just wanted to know why someone would go to the expense of owning a performance car and then taking the "performance" out of the equation, it's like some sort of bad joke. But you don't seem to have any sort of argument against that, though I expect you'll pull the "freedom of expression bro, people can do what they like" card, which will no doubt come with a side-order of irony, as you just tried to use that one against me.
Petrolhead95 said:
Another Fluffer said:
You just don't want to admit you like one of the cars in this thread!
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