I am surrounded by this shit every day. It gives imports a bad name. Every time i feel like wasting my money on useless shit like altezzas or neons, I remember your site. Keep up the good work. -Kyo-

I mean i like both muscle car and import performance, but your site taught me a lot about what not to do to my nissan: 1. No snot, shit, or piss colored cars 2. Have an appointment with the paint shop ready right after you get your body kit 3. No bling bling rims 4. One fart cannon and thats it 5. No damn stickers 6. No rice kits, get like a german style body kit 7. fast and the furious sucked anyways so why would i want my nissan to looklike those cars 8. Imports are cool, just as long as they dont look like hot wheels 9. If you get stuck with an old Lux car, burn it before you rice it 10.DONT TRY TO BEAT MUSCLE CARS AT DRAG RACING anyways, i like your site, i mean you should copy it and make it called "what not to do on a tuner" or something like that. Because it helps a lot to see what people think of the stupid shit that others do so you dont make the same mistakes. I mean i know you had two imports (stock ones) By the way you are lucky on your find with that camaro, it took me forever to find one that i could afford, but then i found my firebird, and realized they are the same thing about and then ya. Anyways, if the ricers call you a redneck and bag on your site, ask them if those cars resemble theres. Later, Dean da Silva

Hey man, First of all, great site. I've never seen it before, but a friend of mine directed me to it. I must say, your sense of humour is refreshing, especially with all the hate mail you seem to receive. Personally, I think I'd be ranting and raving and wanting to kill some of the misguided idiots who criticise you for daring to have an opinion that is opposite to theirs. But there you go, I guess. I suppose I'm a ricer myself, what with my car being an inline-4 turbo and all, but I've never once considered investing in a bodykit or graphics or gigantic exhaust tips or any of that other shit. I've always preferred to feed myself and put a roof over my head to spending many thousands of dollars on my car. I used to own a V8 - a beautiful Cobra replica that my dad built up then decided he didn't want any more and sold to me - but it was extremely hungry on the fuel. I used to get about 7 kilometres per litre - I don't know what that is in miles per gallon - if I was driving responsibly, and about 4 - 5 kilometres per litre when I was driving hard. The car I have now, a '94 Nissan Pulsar GTi-R, gets around 9kms a litre when it's being pushed, and 10 - 11 kms per litre when it isn't, so my fuel bill has effectively been halved. Anyway, keep up the great work and the great site, and for God's sake don't let the bastards get you down! Sooner or later everyone has to realise that cars are just cars, and not some sort of gift wrapping that you have to dress yourself up in. PS If you wish to reproduce this email on your website, please feel free to do so, but I would appreciate it if you would not identify me, either by name or email address. Describing me as 'an anonymous Australian contributor' would be good!

FUUCCCCCK, This site has ruined my life! I'll never sleep again! We can only pray that every one of these people will crash there cars and die!

Hey man, Sir, I live in the biggest Hmong community in the U.S. I am surrounded by the most insane, bizarre, goody, fucked-up, ruined, loud and ugly cars (mostly imports) on Earth. It appears that it is a right of passage for every delusional 16-25 year old (mostly Asian, but lotsa of whites too) to buy a worthless and well-used Insert-Import-Name-Here, immediately put the exhaust tip the size and weight of a 55-gallon barrel on the end, and then add a truly nauseating array of fiberglass and mismatched body parts from head to toe. The "cars" that I speak of are not bizarre and hysterical only because their "mods" are worthless, ugly, and in the worst taste possible. See, 90 percent of these low-IQ'ers cut/"modify" their springs/lower their "cars" so that: 1)it is impossible to both turn and drive at the same time without having the front tires rip their mad flared fenders off, as well as having their rear wheels use up their entire 1/4 inch worth of travel and risk breaking what little is left of the suspension 2)it is impossible to EVER drive faster than 30 miles per hour over anything except the smoothest of roads because it will both bottom what is left of their "race-tuned" suspension as well as catch the myriad of bizarre, tasteless, non-functional skirts and street sweeper-like body pieces that are must for any "true" enthusiast. What does all this mean? It means that, while insisting that a 10 foot wing and a thousand other "racing" parts are a must for the "real" hard core drivers, the "mods" make their cars undrivable, slow, and heavy. I know this to be a fact because the majority of these automotive-disabled buffoons hold up traffic at a dizzying rate wherever they go. Their cars cannot corner, cannot accelerate, cannot brake, and cannot drive even half as well as it did before their mad car skills were unleashed on their helpless, soon-to-be victim of a car. These rolling monuments to stupidity and wasted money have value only to the next idiot that buys it. They have exactly zero value to any true car enthusiast. Honda engineers who spend years agonizing over the perfect suspension/ride/NVH combination must vomit on a daily basis when they see so much of their work tossed in the shitter. All of the above comments have nothing to do with the tons of neat import cars that many normal driver aspire to own. From a 300ZX and Mits 3000GT all the way to a Skyline and NSX, many imports make some of the neatest cars on Earth. By the way, I drive only Japanese cars and trucks. I am 45, and have owned more than 50 cars and trucks (including some American muscle cars). Finally, let me mention something about the hilarious wing fetish displayed by these morons. First, the cars never reach a speed above which the average bicyclist couldn't achieve on a good day with 3 power bars in the gut. And two, 99 percent of these automotive abominations are FRONT WHEEL DRIVE, but their 747-inspired wings are on the BACK of the car. Uh, the down force they really "need" to keep all of those 105 horses, ya know, hooked-up, should be on the FRONT of the car. But never mind the facts, yo, I gotsa MAD fuckin' ride, and in case you doubt that, look in the interior and check out my dual fire extinguishers and mad array of left-pillar gauges to keep me up-to-date my, ya know, engine and shit. But, I digress. If these dumb-asses and their cars were quiet and could at least operate at 90 percent of posted speed limits, I couldn't care a less how fucked up their sweet rides are. But they insist on making their puke so loud that no one can "miss" their mad rides and clear, unequivocal display of automotive acumen. As someone one once said, I have nothing against anyone, but when morons and their choices hold me and a million others up in traffic, and make enough noise to disturb every neighborhood they "race" through, I don't care how many of the wreck their cars and hopefully lose their driving privilege. One less goof-ball ricer (white, black, or purple, don't matter one bit) means 20 gallons of neon paint saved for the rest of the world. Cheers! Jeff

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