Thread 28686584

Brand wars aside, I have been thinking about what metric people use to determine whether something is shit taste or not. Me and my father like cars but we seldom agree on what we mutually like or dislike and recently I came across pic rel and thought "damn that looks kino" but apparently people have been slamming the kit online which has made me think about taste more. The only thing I can think of is that I like customs while people like my father are more reserved with what they would do to customize a car beyond under the hood tuning. So for them shit cars are shit by principle of their baseline and that if you customize a shit baseline car or a half-decent one you're kinda like bimbofying them if they were a woman. So is it often just stock purism v rule of cool? Or is it something else I am missing?

>>28686584 (OP)
It's something else. Modified cars can be cool. Stock cars can be shit.

>>28686584 (OP)
Non-OEM body kits are always shit taste, sorry bud.

>>28686584 (OP)
If OP likes it then it's a shit car

>>28686584 (OP)
looks good enough
all countach except the first iteration look like shit anyways so a bodykit won't do much harm

>>28686584 (OP)
People are NPC and the current fashion is being an NPC consumer and keeping the car completely stock.

>>28686584 (OP)
>people are slamming it online
Single best indicator of shit taste: you care about that

>>28686584 (OP)
literally every attractive aspect of the car in the OP is just the parts that weren't molested by the bodykit

>>28686636
>he likes slammed cars
I think you have the shit taste here

>>28686584 (OP)
Look at this "tuning"

>>28686584 (OP)
To simplify a bit, I think you can boil it down to two aspects ; concept and execution. Concept is the idea behind the mod, why you are adding it, how it goes with the rest of the car, how it meshes with other mods. I think the main cause of shittily modified vehicles is people just throwing any available aftermarket parts at a car without thinking about why they'd even want to. Then comes execution, which should be pretty self explanatory. Y'know how the parts were actually installed, quality of materials, etc. A cool idea for a custom wouldn't be much good if you don't know how to make or install it. The best mods could be "cringe" on paper, but with a strong idea and good workmanship still come out well (picrel)

>>28686640
idgaf what OP likes
I like my shitbox and that's it

>>28686584 (OP)
can taste mean appreciation?

>>28686654
yeah that one's a pretty dank shitpost

>>28686584 (OP)
everything i dont like

>>28686584 (OP)
The fenders alone warrant whoever made this being executed, it looks like a child glued some shit to the car.
Anything that isn't made by people that actually participate in or research racing should be safely discarded.

everyone elses taste

>>28686584 (OP)
Italian supercars are designed to be works of art. You wouldn't "modify" the Mona Lisa or Starry Night, so why would you put an ugly, garish body kit on a Countach?

>>28686654
Something executed well could still bw trash taste; your picrel is a perfect example

>>28686658
Your taste is what you like or don't like

Not my proudest car fap...

>>28686799
What about If the Mona Lisa and Starry Night were released for reviews and publicity pictures, but after initial reviews some beancounters go and change them against da Vinci and Van Gogh's wishes, and released said neutered version of the paintings?
Would you then MODIFY the paintings to match da Vinci or Van Gogh's original vision, or do you keep the neutered version?
Or do you screech "nooo the beancounters DESIGNED it that way!!!"
All of this defines one's taste

>>28686584 (OP)
>slammed
Shit by default to me. Some of it is because of the "people" who do these specific mods and I've never ran into a single one who wasn't in some way retarded, be it legitimate mental dysfuntion or just an attention seeking whore. The other part is it simply fucks with the car's lines. I've yet to see a car which looks have been improved by lowering the suspension. Also it drives like ass thanks to stiffer suspension.
>So is it often just stock purism v rule of cool?
Not at all. There are some mods that are fine but morons will go overboard with them and end up with a mutated abortion of a car. Doesn't matter if it was done well or not. Your pic is very related.

>>28686824
Delusional false dichotomy
Is picrel "sLaMmEd?"

>>28686584 (OP)
>cant even scale the graphics to fit correctly on a panel.
I wouldnt trust them for jack fucking shit.

>>28686824
>The other part is it simply fucks with the car's lines. I've yet to see a car which looks have been improved by lowering the suspension.
lol get a load of this gaylord.

>>28686826
>extremely short sidewall
>barely any wheel gap
Not slammed if you want to nitpick but still very much absolutely gay.
>>28686829
>doesnt provide a single counter argument
I accept your concession

>>28686832
Has nothing to do with nitpicking; it's just not sLaMmEd. That was how goyota originally released their gs350 fsport before the beancounters went and neutered it
Now is picrel sLaMmEd?

>>28686837
nuLambo being gay by default aside
>again extremely short sidewall
>this time side wheel gap doesnt match top wheelgap
Once again it's gay but this time slammed. It barely has any clearance.

>>28686843
Ok see. The lambo isn't "sLaMmEd" at all
Is picrel sLaMmEd too?

>>28686845
If your autistic campaign is for me to admit I should've said lowered instead of slammed then, sure, whatever. Have your little victory. All these cars are still gay and retarded though because of that. Just like you.

>>28686826
SMASHED

>>28686837
SLAMMED

>>28686845
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>>28686848
The gs350 is stock. Is it retarded and gay because it's objectively ugly or just because you don't know how to drive a low car?
If every lowered/MODIFIED car is worse than stock, how do explain picrel?

>>28686852
>ones ability to drive has an impact on whether or not a car looks gay
Go be autistic somewhere else.

>>28686851
Here, have some truly garish taste

>>28686853
I accept your concession stand; now let me get some Kinder Buenos

>>28686584 (OP)
>So for them shit cars are shit by principle of their baseline and that if you customize a shit baseline car or a half-decent one you're kinda like bimbofying them if they were a woman.
Using this analogy, the baseline "shit" cars are economy cars with no sporting intention. MODIFYING said cars is seen as shit taste because it's like lipstick on a pig
But MODIFYING a "half-decent" one may or may not be "bimbofying" it, to use the parlance of our times; that depends on the actual CHARACTER of the MODIFICATIONs
Slapping on cheap chankjank for looks is just that: cheap
Using high quality parts to take the car back to the engineers' original goal, before the beancounters get their hands on em; how is that poor taste? Unless the engineers had poor taste to begin with. But then why buy that car in the first place?

>>28686855
i can still see his sidewalls that's tasteful

to be totally fair the car in op is on airbags at full droop and it can't actually drive like that

>>28686913
op pic and the civic are both tasteless and tacky as fuck
it isn't just the hilarious ride height (in either direction) that makes something corny or trashy or tacky or stupid

>>28686584 (OP)
>defining shit taste:
1. Is it an SUV or a pickup truck?
2. Is it modern eggshit hueg grill screens everywhere kitsch designed to appeal to oil sheikhs and nouveau riche Chinese?
3. Is it a ricer?
If any of the three applies to your car and you genuinely don't see anything wrong with it, then you have shit taste.

>>28686584 (OP)
Everyone's got an opinion, man.
Something like what you posted could be tasteless to a purist, but IMO at least works from the idea that it's supposed to resemble some sort of 'race car' with exaggerated proportions. It looks like something I'd see a Hot Wheels car of.
Something like >>28686647 on the other hand is just what I'd call shit taste. Some people might like the whole stance and fender flare thing, some might not. But who in their right mind is a fan of "extremely tacky deformed bodykits with leather-print gold foil wrap"? Not many I don't think.
Personally, I can handle all sorts of rice and various genres of car modifications. The only things I actually call shit taste with no exception are SLABs with those "giraffe poke" wheels (original "84s" are fine, but they went comical with it) and squatted trucks.

>>28687903
liberty walk is tacky as fuck

>>28687906
Maybe, but quite a lot more people enjoy their style than whatever style >>28686647 is, which is kind of my point. I don't mind them. Wataru Kato, the dude behind Liberty Walk is also pretty based, which makes me hate his overdone, riveted fender-flared cars just a bit less.

>>28688007
People literally don't know what they enjoy; it's just shoved down their stupid gullets and they beg for more

>>28688019
This. Your mother doesn't know how much she loves sucking cock until I shove it down her throat

>>28686584 (OP)
idk mang, being edgy kind of looses its edge when it becomes a trend.
>rule of cool ?
to the point of disabling the suspension and steering ? yeah

>>28691384
Imagine the cost to replace that windscreen

>>28686852
>>28686845
You are hyper fixating on the word "lowered" as a catch-all when OP is quite clearly talking about when the car is basically at the top of its suspension travel range, which does in fact look like shit.

>>28692006
You are taking the resident nigger's shitposts seriously.

>>28686584 (OP)
Any kind of nigger rigged piece of crap that looks retarded and drives even worse, it should be illegal for negroids and their brethren to buy classic cars and ruin them like this, not that JDMfags haven't done the same with sticking huge spoilers and skirts on 150 hp shitboxes, but at least most of the time if i buy them i can realistically just cut the mods out, Good luck doing it on a Donk
In general, if it ruins the line of the car to the point of parody, it's shit taste

>>28692908
>it should be illegal for negroids and their brethren to buy classic cars and ruin them like this
The "white" master race ruined them from the factory by not even attempting to make them to Aryan standards.

>>28692912
American 40s to early 70s cars are some of the most beautiful and soulful cars ever created and that's not up to discussion

>>28692915
And yet none of them were 10Best winners 22 years straight.

>>28692993
Nobody cares about stats, i'm a European and my first car was a 60s Buick, no Euro car ever gave me the same rush of adrenaline like pressing on the 425 Nailhead Twin Carb in that car

>>28686584 (OP)
>How do you define "shit taste"?
I prefer to let people be, but I'd define it by the following, "You know it when you see it."

>>28686640
slamming it as in making disparaging comments

>>28686584 (OP)
As a rule, people who buy Lambo's have bad taste.

>>28686799
Ferrari is the Mona Lisa. A Lamborghini is a tattoo of the Mona Lisa on a strippers ass.

>>28694200
I know which one I'd rather have in my bedroom

>>28694198
And there is an exception to every rule.

>>28694200
A Ferrari is a stuck up old money alpine Italian woman who expects you to act as her accessory while she shops around designer high streets or be treated at the latest high class gourmet restraunt for technocrat meet and greets while at best making the concession of having one kid with you.

A Lamborghini is a wild sicilian woman who you don't question where her money comes from beyond the fact that her family tolerates you and she is willing to fuck anywhere under the condition you don't use protection and have 8 kids with her.

>>28686584 (OP)
People who ruin mint 80s Toyota luxury cars (or other luxury sedans/wagons) by slamming them into the floor, kicking dents in the side (I know a retard who did this and said it's "Part of the subculture bro") and rolling fenders and generally abusing a well taken care of grandma's car. I can't stand this shit it happens everywhere in the Yota community, which is why I left the Toyota luxury barge community and moved to the Ameribarge community, so called "Boomer ahh shit" (this according to the same retard who told me kicking dents in his car is "Japanese culture" or some shit)

>>28694626
It occurs to me that that particular car would not Ford well.

>>28686602
spwp

>>28691730
500k if you let Ferrari handle it and 50k if someone else does it.

>>28692006
No, I'm trying to understand the arbitrary difference between sLaMmEd and just lowered. None of the cars I used as examples are "sLaMmEd," yet cars with similar ride heights will be derided as such, even when a different car has a similar ride height stock. So what did they mean by it in the first place? Is anything lower than stock sLaMmEd? And which "stock" height?

>>28686654
Widebody Aztek looks surprisingly good desu. It's got surprisingly good proportions.

>>28687906
That rhymes