The #2 worst way to mod your car

[holly_evolving]

from www.spike.com (which has too many adds, so I copy/pasted instead of making you look at them)

Amongst all the negative hallmarks of the tuner trend that defined a “rice rocket”, this might be the most immediately recognizable. The idea behind a wing or a spoiler is that it creates downforce, which keeps the back end of the car from hydroplaning at (very) high speeds.

The concept of a wing is not an entirely bad one by any means. For instance, if you look at a Porsche 911, you’ll notice that a small spoiler comes up from the body of the car at speeds above around 60mph or so. Porsche considers this adequate downforce for a car which can reach speeds in excess of 190mph.

However, a Toyota Tercel does not reach speeds in excess of 110mph. Because of that sad fact, it really needs no wing at all, much less a large one, or two large ones. All you're really doing is adding weight, and in turn slowing your car down.

This is the automotive equivalent of having “I’m an asshat” tattooed on your forehead.



It's a FORD MUSTANG, fucknut, not a McLaren F1. You will NEVER go fast enough to need it.

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[wolf-nd-shadows.livejournal.com]

when I was used car shopping 3 years ago, One of the cars I was looking at was a really nice honda whose only flaw was 4 holes in the trunk. apparently, the old owner had attached a spoiler to the trunk hoping to pimp it out, and when he sold the car, he kept the spoiler (probably because he paied way to much money for it) and left the car in an unsellable state

[holly-evolving.livejournal.com]

So was he selling it himself, or was it at a used car lot?