A stunning V8V with HRE wheels...
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Generalising I know, but it currently seems much more common for the Americans to start dropping ride height, adding spacers, increasing wheel size & dropping profile on serious performance cars like Astons - it's all about aesthetics to the detriment of handling & ride - I don't have a problem with the wheel design itself but the rest reminds me of being 19 again.................rather immature :-)
jonby said:
Generalising I know, but it currently seems much more common for the Americans to start dropping ride height, adding spacers, increasing wheel size & dropping profile on serious performance cars like Astons - it's all about aesthetics to the detriment of handling & ride - I don't have a problem with the wheel design itself but the rest reminds me of being 19 again.................rather immature :-)
It's a very different 'scene' in the US. Traditionally their cars were more about headline horsepower and the traffic light grand prix, ours were more about a Sunday morning blast along a winding B road.Then came the Cobra which married the two
Oddly we (the UK) have the lowering/blinging scene too but it's mainly the max power hot hatch gang rather than people who have more upmarket cars. I suppose most of their roads are still straight and the traffic light grand prix still exists - a car like that Aston will probably never leave the city.
If you were one of those chaps who goes out 'blasting the canyons' outside of LA, then you certainly wouldn't do that to the car as it wouldn't work. But those people do exist as there is a healthy Lotus community out there - and the Aston (or such as a 911 GT3) is a step up from Lotus I guess, English / European exoticism and pedigree with a nice growly V8 (or flat 6).
yeti said:
Oddly we (the UK) have the lowering/blinging scene too but it's mainly the max power hot hatch gang rather than people who have more upmarket cars. I suppose most of their roads are still straight and the traffic light grand prix still exists - a car like that Aston will probably never leave the city.
I think perhaps what happens is that with the hot hatch crowd here (and I did the same myself, in particular with a 2.0ltr prelude, must have been very early 90s, the one with the digi dash and maserati style rear lights), it's now mostly all about LOOKING faster. When you get the more serious and tested cars, it's not done as much, other than with Japanese cars like the GTR. With an Aston, why try to make it look any faster ?But I remember a time when it was much more prevalant on 'seriosu cars' - the days of getting a 911 turbo & putting 20/21" wheels on (and remember that was when a typical saloon might have 15 or 16" wheels, not 18-20" wheels) or koenig (spelling?) who did all those mad ferrari conversions
Hey ho, each to their own - it's not offensive, simply not to my taste
yeti said:
Oddly we (the UK) have the lowering/blinging scene too but it's mainly the max power hot hatch gang rather than people who have more upmarket cars. I suppose most of their roads are still straight and the traffic light grand prix still exists - a car like that Aston will probably never leave the city.
If you were one of those chaps who goes out 'blasting the canyons' outside of LA, then you certainly wouldn't do that to the car as it wouldn't work. But those people do exist as there is a healthy Lotus community out there - and the Aston (or such as a 911 GT3) is a step up from Lotus I guess, English / European exoticism and pedigree with a nice growly V8 (or flat 6).
The thing is it is still possible to get it very low with out buggering it up if you do your home work rather than "stance" itIf you were one of those chaps who goes out 'blasting the canyons' outside of LA, then you certainly wouldn't do that to the car as it wouldn't work. But those people do exist as there is a healthy Lotus community out there - and the Aston (or such as a 911 GT3) is a step up from Lotus I guess, English / European exoticism and pedigree with a nice growly V8 (or flat 6).
One of my old "steeds" was 40mm lower than standard and still managed some shocking B roads (with exhaust scraps
)I miss that car
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Edited by mikey k on Tuesday 11th December 13:27
jonby said:
Generalising I know, but it currently seems much more common for the Americans to start dropping ride height, adding spacers, increasing wheel size & dropping profile on serious performance cars like Astons - it's all about aesthetics to the detriment of handling & ride - I don't have a problem with the wheel design itself but the rest reminds me of being 19 again.................rather immature :-)
Wish I was 19 and immature rather than the current 54 and immature! 
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too low, not enough tyre, bet it rides s
t on our B roads and tram lines on the motorway ...style over substance
great to go to a car show and let people take pics of your car ....maybe good on a billard table smooth race track...but in the real world likely slower down a bumpy B road than many off the shelf hot hatchbacks
the car itself is tastefully modified ...just need smaller wheels and more useful tyre profile, gap in the arches is fine so long as the suspension travel is still there and they are properly setup
t on our B roads and tram lines on the motorway ...style over substancegreat to go to a car show and let people take pics of your car ....maybe good on a billard table smooth race track...but in the real world likely slower down a bumpy B road than many off the shelf hot hatchbacks
the car itself is tastefully modified ...just need smaller wheels and more useful tyre profile, gap in the arches is fine so long as the suspension travel is still there and they are properly setup
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