Thread 28464501

How has car culture shifted in the past 30 years?

>>28464501 (OP)
It hasn't

You're not supposed to customize your car anymore.

Need for Speed and FnF have largely died as inspiration for new car enthusiasts, aftermarket performance markets have become solidly established for every major sports car, genuine enthusiasts have become much more knowledgeable in general, and drifting is fucking dead. As a result, ricer shit has become unpopular and legit performance mods are the new hotness

>>28464621
stock outside mods inside for me

>>28464501 (OP)
went from whites trying to act black to spics trying to act Japanese

Americans remain slower than Asia

>>28464501 (OP)
Its gay and nignog and I hate it.

>>28464501 (OP)
It became retarded and unaffordable

>>28464501 (OP)
It disappeared.

>>28464501 (OP)
We are in the post 2008 era where modifications are computers and exhaust.

>>28464636
Drifting is the opposite of dead, it is just commercialized with inspiration being initial d focused. The old school ricer cars were F&F along with Japanese car culture bleed through

I'm going to be a contrarian and call early 00s ricer culture fucking disgusting.
Pandem/rocket bunny widebody kits look much better than whatever the fuck pokemon looking alien bullshit we had back then.
I hated the 20" chrome wheels every tuner car had, I hated how the fenders back then poked like 12 inches over the wheels, I hated most everything gaudy about ricing back then.
In my opinion bodykits are much more subtle nowadays.

>>28465464
Retard alert

>>28465474
>NOOOO YOU CAN'T HAVE A DIFFERING OPINION YOU HAVE TO BE A PART OF THE NPC HIVEMIND JUST LIKE EVEYONE ELSE
Fuck you, retard alert indeed

>>28464501 (OP)
Everyone is obsessed with online clout now and only care about their car as long as it generates followers, likes, and engagement. Essentially, most car “enthusiasts” are attention starved children than people who actually like cars. Car meets and car people in general are far more hostile and passive aggressive than they used to be too.

>t. Mid 40s older

>>28465464
Really? I always felt rocket bunny was too angular and the non molded style people like these days with exposed bolts makes it look more tacky. At the end of the day you slapped a bunch of plastic and punchered a bunch of holes into the car regardless so it's ruined either way.

>>28465599
They're both tacky and rice as shit pikachu bullshit

>>28465607
>pikachu

Spotted the brown benchracing teenager

Overnight shipping from Japan became too expensive.

>>28465609
>pikachu

Spotted the black or indigenous weeblet ricelet stancelet slowfaglet boyracelet of color

>>28465521
Not only are you stupid, you are a TASTELET.

Riced civics back in the early 00’s are no different from the “stance” builds today. Pandem and rocket bunny were both around back then too, dumbass.

>>28465900
See >>28465607

>>28464501 (OP)
It's gotten so retarded people will claim any car sub 500hp is slow, and that any car under 250hp is unusable for commuting thanks to online clout. People pretend they cant overtake or drive on the highway with 150hp. Meanwhile I see women in fiat 500 on the autobahn doing just fine at 180km/h and merging just fine.
The jdm scene has also never recovered from the 2000's crash of the Japanese economy, outside of a R35 GTR and the GR86 most jdm meet are literally the same cars as back in the 2000s.
Speaking of the economy, 'cheap' tuner sports cars actually arent more expensive post adjustment of inflation. It's just that the generation that grew up during or post 2008 crash is so broke and fucked they end up worse off than their parent's generation. Things didn't become more expensive, most people just became poorer. Those record wealth transfers they keep talking about and wealth inequality increases aren't just a meme. I also fear for the future generations who will be saddled with paying for that insane debt the boomer generation accrued in order to sustain their cushy life. They will really own nothing.

No more sound systems in the boot worth more than the shitbox it was in

>>28464638
>stock outside
>mods inside
Honestly the right way to do things. Rice always attracts the wrong kind of attention.

>>28466182
That has largely consolidated towards the SPL competition crowd these days.

>>28466279
Ninja prease. It was all about having a bassiest car when cruising for pussy in the club district.

>>28464638
Lame

>>28465521
Bro you are following the NPC hivemind to a T

>>28466182
>home depot wood flooring
bruh

>>28466718
>P plate
>home depot
Seppo moment

>>28466162
True, I was faster than 80% of the cars on the highway with just 90hp

>>28466724
I thought that meant parking like reserved parking or something my bad.

>>28466727
Well we have a home depot in sydney now but that photo was taken long before all the major yank brands set up stores here.

>>28464501 (OP)
Became lame. Having fun is looked down upon now. Both in terms of actually driving and also modding.

>>28464501 (OP)
it's all bought now. nobody builds. tuning almost disappeared entirely. in today's world, power is about building stupid amounts of boost with total disregard for the health of the engine. nobody cares about NA power or handling anymore. most of the awesome cars released in the 90s were discontinued with no true successor. safety requirements made everything ugly and heavy. races are rarer now that the economy is broken and nobody can risk losing money. i could go on forever. it is totally different.

>>28464501 (OP)
intellectual property and lobotomized consumers has made car fans instead of car enthusiasts, the amount of people interested in open source efi and making cvts that arent shit, diy body kits, kit cars, and shit that should be A LOT EASIER in the last decade has not manifested, go to a car meet and its boomers who brought out their tri5 chevy built ouf of magazine parts and driven 200 miles a year, or birds nest hair'ed brainlets gooning over 150hp fwd automatic coupes because it has a cool name

>>28467241
And yet the E39 is the best sports sedan overall that there is, and the E92 is the last amazing 3 Series

>>28467241
Also it went from if you got caught street racing you'd get a warning or a speeding ticket to arrested at gunpoint and your car impounded

>>28467618
very true

>>28464501 (OP)
People don't have the same disposable income since housing costs have grown so rapidly relative to income. It's a rich man's game, not even a middle class game anymore unless you buy a shitheap. Rednecks always win in the end

>>28467618
this
in nc there is a law where if your car is impounded for street racing it will be sold at auction in another state specifically to prevent you from buying it back

politiniggers have not increased enforcement but tightened punishments to such extreme levels they are borderline unconstitutional.
fun fact: speeding is not and cannot ever be an actual crime which is why they have to stack bullshit like reckless driving and public endangerment on it even if you were completely in control and nobody was actually in danger.

>>28467407
e39's are ok. e92's are dogshit.

>>28467671
Nc here. That's what got me to stop street racing, or even just having fun on the road.

I drive my Trans Am all over the place, but I don't mess around for fear of having it crushed or sold.

Before any pussies cry about it, we street raced late at night on a road we blocked off. Nobody was at risk except us.

>>28467673
post an image of a e39

>>28464501 (OP)

Electricity has become increasingly more important in the day to day functioning of every function of the average automobile.

>>28466182

That's because most of the people who used to put sound systems in their shitbox are now successful enough to own something that isn't a shitbox. We still love our sound systems tho

>>28466730
australia has fallen

>>28467797
I haven't heard any car with retarded bass in traffic in a decade.

I unironically miss spinners. Even the hubcap ones has an absurd charm to them.

>>28467817
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp7HrDz3f3w

this is culture

>>28464501 (OP)
Shifted? Barely anyone has shift stick anymore