First- all the reports about Japan is that the tuners are scrapping by and dependent on the U.S.A. More than ever to sell their products because everything there now is EV or hybrid.

Now this:

http://www.worldcarfans.com/11202124...ewilders-video

 

Seems just fine to me:

 

Completely Stupid and moronic . Even for shock value is out of the question . Takes designers and engineers 10 years to create a car and just 1 hour for some moron to destroy it.

 

 

Anyone remember the "cars float on water" cheat code from the older grand theft auto games? That is what the cars in the link are starting to remind me of. Completely absurd.

 

Might as well buy a set of tires and light them on fire.
I see no value at all.

 

I like that, "demon-camber" or "oni-camber", drive it like it's on rails. Oh wait, you aren't really supposed to drive those mechanical death traps. But someone knows how cars handle with 89.9 degrees of negative camber.

 

I would love to see a video off them drifting with that camber

 

M4d t1te c@mb3r thru5t y0?

 

I can see this becoming all the rage here:

"aye brah imma peep dat camber you got, skunk2 kambur kit?"

"nah son, eye dun only gots like tree or fo degree wit dat, dis **** CUSTOM. DIS **** got me foty fa degrees"

*daps*

 

Does the kit come in purple?

 

I hear it also comes in red neon lighting and strawberry scented.

 

As long as neon unicorns and dragons are involved I'll buy a kit naow.

 

It's not jdm unless it's squash scented yo.

 

Oh well more business for me . Tires anyone . I give discounts.

 

I just finished oni cambering my RX car. I welded extensions onto the A arms. I think it's going to be hard to get it to rotate in turns. Can't wait to go around a pivot cone.

 

The new kids in japan have turned into "americans"


They care about the newest thing on the block and gossip and trends.

 

You know in cally you cant lower your car to low and truck cannot have tires past the fenders?


Why arent these cars being ticketed?

I even thought they had a law on HID headlights on non hid cars.

How are cars getting away with being that low and "demon" camber?

 

But toe is what causes tire wear I'd love to see one of these cars pull into a Big O Tire shop for an alignment.

 

I remember seeing the term oni-cam or whatever way back when... like 1999 or 2000. so its nothing new really, but like most trends, it just gets more extreme and more dumb until people move along. Just look at how the whole jdm thing started out as nice clean simple cars and evolved into civics with winglets all over them dragging shitty ebay lips down the street...

 

In Cali, you can lower the car to your hearts content, as long as 2 rules are met.

The headlamps must not go below the federal minimum height (22" if my memory is correct), but this is commonly ignored by the police.

The structure of the car can't be lower than the bottom of the wheel. This allows slammed cars to be legal as long as they have rubber band tires. (This one is actually logical, since it means a tire blowout won't put the chassis onto the pavement.)

I found out these when I had an argument with a cop over my illegally low, but 100% stock, Spitfire. 5" of tire sidewall on a car with the frame 3.5" off the pavement and headlamps only 20" high. Not legal, and not modified, and the cop had no clue whether or not he could/should write a ticket.

 

Thats the price of one-upmanship, regardless of how stupid, senseless, dangerous, expensive, ect. the mod may be. If someone can get their chassis to one millimeter of the ground, someone else is gonna get .75 millimeter, then someone else to a half millimeter, and on and on. Same goes for camber and hella-flushness. This type of modification is their art, their Jackson Pollock or Andy Warhol. Their canvas is the car, and the silly modifications are their brush strokes.

These types of mods are obviously not about any kind of performance enhancement.

 

I guess you're right. If it's not offending anyone, its not very artistic. I get that part of it, and if they are just driving them in parades or around parking lots and ****, fine.

What worries me is the people who don't know where to draw the line. I already have to share the road with all these "hellaflush" wannabes thinking its okay to drive 90mph with 15* of camber and a 175 stretched over a 9" wheel

 

the **** people do to cars now a days is just ubsurd

 

Them crazy Japanese. Anyone want to predict the next greatest trend from JDM land?