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wot do you think to modified cars ???

Public Comments

1. Not sure what you mean. Do you mean what people do to modify cars or what does one think about modifying cars?
2. I love them (but not say it to anybody!!)
3. well modified has so many diffrent meanings...u got ure ricers who make there cars look fast but there not...import tuner crowd "repect" fast jap tunners who know wat there doin...
4. Sometimes there alright when the person hows modded it nows what there doing, however most of the time it is arseholes how do it , who think they now what there doing, and it comes out lookin like a piece of crap.
5. awsome even though gas prices are igh a few simple mods can make your car run better and more mpg plus making a car look good and run better cant hurt
6. Waste of money...
7. try hards waste of money, usually its just trash who do it
8. I think a great many things about modified cars--some admiring thoughts and some less so. Ground-effects? For the most part I think this is just plain stupid. Roads in this country have all sorts of potholes, speed bumps, steep driveway lips and the like, that just bust those things into pieces wherever you drive them. Low profile tires? Much the same problem. When you reduce your sidewall depth from four inches to two and you hit a pothole you destroy your $800 alloy rim. Tuners? Well if you beef up the suspension and the rest of the drive train (not just the engine) I quite like the idea of a backyard mechanic putting together a Corvette killer on a limited budget--something very egalitarian about that. Muscle cars? Pretty much the same opinion. If you are going to make something that can go very very fast, be sure you have a transmission and differential that can handle it. Increase your braking capacity by putting on oversized well ventilated disks. I own a Jag sports car, which is a pretty well balanced combination of power, braking and suspension. It is relatively safe at 130 or 140 because the whole vehicle was designed to handle that kind of speed. A good mechanic can take a relatively inexpensive platform and get far more acceleration, but lacking a Jag suspension, if anything happens that forces sudden lane change at high speeds, or rapid braking, the car may not be able to be kept in control by any but the most skillfull of drivers. I'm not that skillfull. And while I am a pretty fair hand with a wrench, I don't design cars for a living, so I prefer to buy my high performance cars from people who do. That said, things like that little Subaru WRX STI are very impressive to me. That is essentially an off-the-shelf tuner designed by people who do designe cars for a living. I really don't think they have the suspension, let alone the sheer weight to be terribly safe at the speeds they can achieve (and achieve much faster than my Jag can I must admit), but then, they are less than half the price new and a real thrill to drive around town in.