Someone stepped on the poor thing.
PTSD from smashed matchbox cars just kicked in.
How to make an otherwise great-looking car ugly.
even worse are modern american cars, they look like they have breathing issues and are so hideously oversized that people are literally backing over their kids on their own driveways
Frontovers, not backing over. The hoods are so tall that they straight up run over their own kids in their own driveways, killing them, driving forwards.
Meh I say to each their own. Would I do it to my car? Nope. But I have no hate for other people doing it.
The problem is that these are incredibly unsafe. You’re putting about 5% of the part of the tire meant to keep the car in control on the pavement. I don’t want to be on the road with these morons because if they hit a pothole, who knows what direction they’re going to ping off.
As far as style, I’m with you, but these are massive safety compromises.
Interesting I didn’t not think of this from a safety perspective. Good point. If it’s truly dangerous for people then yeah I’m with you.
I’d have to imagine it would wear down the tires incredibly quickly too. I’m not much of a car enthusiast but I’ve never understood this one when I’ve spotted it in the wild. It seems incredibly impractical.
It’s an exaggerated version of something that’s used in racing, but going this far is not useful.
When you go around a corner, the car will lean into a bit. If the tires are angled like this (known as “toe”), more of the rubber is in contact with the road through the corner. Of course, this comes at the expense of having less rubber touching in the straights. Racing teams will tweak it a few degrees depending on how bendy the course layout is.
But only a few degrees. Toe to this extent doesn’t do anything but wear down a little strip of tire.
Hey thanks for the excellent explanation. I always wondered what the point was and you summarized it perfectly so that even an idiot like me can understand.
I disagree. This is stupid and fun.
I once saw these cartoon drawings of tuned cars in a shop somewhere.
I thought they looked neat, but that was back when I didn’t know people actually angled their wheels like that. I thought it was just stylised like that for effect.
Man it looks stupid in real life.
Honestly, that car looks like it finna collapse…
If there’s a style you shouldn’t respect, despite it being perfectly fine to drive, it’s one of those big-ass SUV trucks some people use…
That’s the type of car you use to run over people willingly, or accidentally, with its tall bumper height, and the type you should use MOSTLY in war…
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Stupid yes, but I’ll support it. I’ll support anything car related
Car enthusiast here and hard disagree. I respect anyone willing to pursue aesthetic so hard even at the cost of practicality. I enjoy cars slammed so low that the rim is bending the fender out etc.
At a certain point the car is sacrificed in the pursuit of some aesthetic point and I find that very amusing, and quite like it, even if it is practically “dumb”. It’s far stupider to get weird as hell about some very niche slice of car enthusiasts who bother doing this to this extreme.
if it’s fwd and/or an suv go ahead and have fun with that, I couldn’t think less of them anyway
I vaguely remember learning about excessive camber being good for doing sick drifts and stuff, fucked if you hit a speedbump though.
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