11 Modifications We Want To See Die In 2016

We asked you guys to tell us which modifications you want to see die in 2016. Here are the most popular - and most controversial - answers

Neil Winn

04 Feb 2016

“You bought an RX7, the whole point of it is the rotary motor. And now it’s just a Chevy” - SkylineDom

Check out the video above… Matt Farah doesn’t agree with this one!

Is your Honda excessively loud? Do your doors open upwards? Do you own a detachable steering wheel? If you answered yes to all of these questions, you’re probably a ricer. From all of us here at CT, we beg of you, please stop ruining perfectly good cars.

We have to agree with one commenter who summed up the excessive camber craze rather succinctly:

“This crap has to stop” - the Stig’s German cousin

When Engineering Explained explains why a modification is a bad idea, you have to sit up and listen.

Rocket Bunny and Liberty Walk kits were pretty cool when they first arrived on the scene, helping to give some of our favourite supercars some serious aggression. Unfortunately, the tuning scene went a little in mad in 2015, throwing RB and LW kits onto everything. When almost every car at SEMA has riveted fender flares, you know that the trend has jumped the shark.

Chrome wrapping is another modification that has been tragically overdone in 2015. Just don’t tell Ethan…

We love a low riding car, but only when the lowered ride height helps to improve the car’s dynamics. Slamming for the sake of aesthetics needs to be banished to Room 101.

Spoilers serve a useful purpose on a 1000bhp hypercar. They make less sense on a 100bhp front-wheel drive econobox. Unfortunately the trend of throwing huge wings onto underpowered cars has been around for decades, so we don’t see it dying off any time soon.

2015 was the year of the flame spitting Lamborghini Aventador. After seeing a million videos of supercars pointlessly revving in central London, we’d be happy to see this trend die in 2016.

A modification that sounds cool in theory, but looks seriously cheap and tacky in reality.

The fact that this is even a thing still astounds us. Please stop it, America.

You can see our original community question here.

Comments

Things that need to change
People telling other people what to do. Please go away

Rocket Bunny + Flame Spitting are awesome and only the rest of them are just crap.

I like the liberty walk if done properly on the right car. And colour changing headlights are going on my car this year

I think cars spitting flames is cool but only when it happens for a justified reason like antilag or unburt fuel on the overrun after a long pull or something else like that. Revving the nuts off your car till it spits fire is just plain stupid

I like some of these things…

I’ve got no problem with liberty walk and rocket bunny kits, they look awesome.
All we need is something new and mote original.
They’re popular for a reason

& whoever wrote this you’re basically saying let’s get rid of individualism and giving people freedom to do what makes them happy with their car 👍 there is absolutely no modification out there that ‘needs to die’