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Quoted: Those tilty tires. View Quote Attached File |
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Undercarriage lighting on lifted trucks.
Frowny front facia on jeeps. |
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Vinyl tops, fender skirts, bowlegged wheels, weird brodozer wide wheels, ridiculous wings (bonus points on a front wheel drive car), "stink bug" stance on a street car.
Wow, I guess I'm kind of picky |
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Quoted: I might be old as shit but I love mine.https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/496960/20230823_220844_jpg-3159993.JPGhttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/496960/20240224_083207_jpg-3159994.JPG View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Here's a modern day fad IMO: digital instrument clusters. People ooh and ahh over the graphics but it's really just the automakers being cheap/lazy smacking an LCD on the dash. Look at the BMW iX: https://cdn.carbuzz.com/gallery-images/2023-bmw-ix-dashboard-carbuzz-1025521-1600.jpg That's an $80+k vehicle and the dash looks like shit. I might be old as shit but I love mine.https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/496960/20230823_220844_jpg-3159993.JPGhttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/496960/20240224_083207_jpg-3159994.JPG For me it's not the digital dash itself, it's the integration. It looks like someone taped two ipads on that thing. Why not round the corners off? Why square? Why does it have no sun visor over it or something. Conform it to the dash similar to the style of the car and interior. It looks lazy cheezy and cheep. |
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NYC car armor.
You'll see bull bars front and rear on Mercedes or other high end vehicles with NY plates and instantly know they only have street parking in NYC. Or a huge rubber blanket fluttering behind the car that protects the rear bumper because they can't afford the bull bars. Kharn |
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Quoted: Lots of truth here. Give me gauges, dials, and buttons. Tactile feedback. All these cars with i-pad dashes will 100% cause more accidents. "We know people Can't text and drive, but what if we made them control every facet of their car via a giant I-pad!" View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Here's a modern day fad IMO: digital instrument clusters. People ooh and ahh over the graphics but it's really just the automakers being cheap/lazy smacking an LCD on the dash. Look at the BMW iX: https://cdn.carbuzz.com/gallery-images/2023-bmw-ix-dashboard-carbuzz-1025521-1600.jpg That's an $80+k vehicle and the dash looks like shit. Lots of truth here. Give me gauges, dials, and buttons. Tactile feedback. All these cars with i-pad dashes will 100% cause more accidents. "We know people Can't text and drive, but what if we made them control every facet of their car via a giant I-pad!" A friend gave me non drivable 2008 5 series. The motor blew up due to an oil issue combined with the delay of the in pan oil level indicator reading. I put a new motor and upgraded everything on it. I put a gauge cluster on the dash to see what was going on in real time... would probably make BMW guys puke. |
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UAW
Neon lights under cars Tires that stuck out from underneath the fenders like Moon Patrol Those Buick porthole stickers put on other brands besides Buicks Bro dozers Ghetto cars painted to look like cereal boxes Ghetto cars with spinners or 22’s on rusted out rust buckets Spinners and 22’s on classic muscle cars 16 switches Gold wire rims with lo profile tires or with any tires |
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Quoted: I might be old as shit but I love mine.https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/496960/20230823_220844_jpg-3159993.JPGhttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/496960/20240224_083207_jpg-3159994.JPG View Quote Is that the car from Tron? |
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View Quote How anyone could ever think that looked good is beyond me. |
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All you dumb asses with lightbars who think it really does anything more than just blind others while putting less light on the road than your headlights.
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Quoted: I liked the spoiler on my truck. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/77421/FB_IMG_1526179111719_jpg-761678.JPG View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Toss up between car bras or automatic seatbelts. Special mention goes to putting spoilers on trucks I liked the spoiler on my truck. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/77421/FB_IMG_1526179111719_jpg-761678.JPG Is that the srt10? You get a pass |
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I used a bra for a while. Live in a heavy love bug area they are very much worth not having to repaint the front of your car often.
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Ya gotta think tire dealers love "stanced" cars - those tires are gonna wear out QUICK.
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Jeep grilles and other accessories on it that just look like crap like big fender flares, rocker panel guards, roof lights, etc.
Alot of the things mentioned are the result of govt regulations. |
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I'm not going to comment, because in the 70's we did the 'Big and Littles' with a jacked up rear end.
The skinniest tires you could find on the front, and the largest ones you could get, on the rear. We all thought we were Dyno Don Nicholson or Ronnie Sox. |
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Quoted: https://s3.amazonaws.com/images.gearjunkie.com/uploads/2019/05/gmc-multipro-tailgate-review-1.jpg Who the hell is going to work off their $85,000 truck like a work bench. Stupid as hell. "But it's convenient" Mo-fo; Men have been unloading pickup trucks with conventional tailgates for 100 years. Stop being a lazy, sissy, soy-bitch. And man up. View Quote Hey, now. I have one of these. It's great to sit on and watch my nieces play with their horses. |
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Cleaeance/marker lights on standard width vehicles is pretty dumb.
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Quoted: Carolina squat is #1 easily, of course you certified card carrying sister fuckers over in the Carolinas would come up with something that stupid and dangerous. Four door Jeeps are a pet peeve of mine as well. Stop posing and just buy a minivan to carry around your fuck trophies. View Quote People call kids “fuck trophies” are a pet peeve of mine. Grow up. Sorry if my 4 door jeep pickup isn’t hardcore enough for you. |
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Quoted: Sunroofs. I won't own one. View Quote But apparently, everyone wants a hole cut in the roof and glass installed. They are now difficult to avoid because they are packaged with other things that are useful. It can be impossible to buy off the lot or even to order without. |
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Wheel spacers.
Super wide and offset rims. Tires protruding outside the wheel wells flinging rocks. Very low profile tires on trucks. Driving around in normal weather with fog lights on. |
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Quoted: Hey, now. I have one of these. It's great to sit on and watch my nieces play with their horses. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: https://s3.amazonaws.com/images.gearjunkie.com/uploads/2019/05/gmc-multipro-tailgate-review-1.jpg Who the hell is going to work off their $85,000 truck like a work bench. Stupid as hell. "But it's convenient" Mo-fo; Men have been unloading pickup trucks with conventional tailgates for 100 years. Stop being a lazy, sissy, soy-bitch. And man up. Hey, now. I have one of these. It's great to sit on and watch my nieces play with their horses. My point exactly. The "multi-pro" tailgate would make Moar sense if it were on a Tradesman level truck that you don't care about abusing for work. IDC what anyone says you're not going to abuse an $85k luxury truck. Maybe, maybe very light duty home projects, but I would use a work bench or even saw-horses… Over my very expensive truck. |
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"worst Fad in Automotives"
PLUG IN EV's Saturating the market in SUV's/CUV's Discontinuing mid size and full size luxury sedans. "Sport-tuned" suspension on everything, that ride like sht. I want a Buick or Cadillac soft ride, Everything doesn't need to handle like a BMW M5. Luxury "Cowboy Cadillac" pickup trucks. Short 5ft pickup truck beds. Aka "lifestyle" trucks Being forced to step up to expensive Trim levels just to get certain packages or features. Being forced into small displacement forced induction engines options; TOYOTA I'm looking at you! Shift knobs and buttons on vehicles. Using digital screens to control HVAC and radio functions. "Glass cockpits" aka all digital screens. |
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I hate how everything is electronic.
Things like automatic transmission shifters and parking brakes don’t need to be electronic. Modern cars in general are just too complicated and I’m not sure it’s for the better most of the time. Computer on wheels. |
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Every office worker has to have a full sized pickup truck in the suburbs when the heaviest thing they'll ever haul is their own fat ass!
I read 19 out of 20 will never tow anything heavier than their tow ball. |
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View Quote Try this version Massive Attack - Be Thankful For What You've Got |
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Most modern pick up trucks are stupid as hell. Too big with somehow little actual functional bed space. Put the ridiculous price and increasingly shittier and shittier build qualities and it quickly becomes the biggest scam in the industry.
I once loaded more building materials into the back of a hatchback Mazda 3 with the rear seat folded down than a guy with a F-150. And with much more ease. |
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AI, self driving, EV, etc.
I would love to buy a car that I can actually work on. |
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Quoted: I hate how everything is electronic. Things like automatic transmission shifters and parking brakes don’t need to be electronic. Modern cars in general are just too complicated and I’m not sure it’s for the better most of the time. Computer on wheels. View Quote Reminds me of that scene in "This is spinal tap" BUT THESE GO TO ELEVEN! It's one more Idn'it? |
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Quoted: Expand that to ANY safety or driver assist "feature" that you can't turn off permanently and need to disable it every time. I'm looking at you, VW Lane assist! View Quote Been car shopping the last few weeks - one of the first questions we ask is “can we disable the adaptive cruise control?” I can’t believe there were that many accidents caused by someone running into the back of another car due to cruise control. |
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ARFCOM gets emotionally involved in some of the dumbest shit.
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Quoted: My point exactly. The "multi-pro" tailgate would make Moar sense if it were on a Tradesman level truck that you don't care about abusing for work. IDC what anyone says you're not going to abuse an $85k luxury truck. Maybe, maybe very light duty home projects, but I would use a work bench or even saw-horses… Over my very expensive truck. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: https://s3.amazonaws.com/images.gearjunkie.com/uploads/2019/05/gmc-multipro-tailgate-review-1.jpg Who the hell is going to work off their $85,000 truck like a work bench. Stupid as hell. "But it's convenient" Mo-fo; Men have been unloading pickup trucks with conventional tailgates for 100 years. Stop being a lazy, sissy, soy-bitch. And man up. Hey, now. I have one of these. It's great to sit on and watch my nieces play with their horses. My point exactly. The "multi-pro" tailgate would make Moar sense if it were on a Tradesman level truck that you don't care about abusing for work. IDC what anyone says you're not going to abuse an $85k luxury truck. Maybe, maybe very light duty home projects, but I would use a work bench or even saw-horses… Over my very expensive truck. You’ve obviously never lived in oil patch or farm country. During boom years, every tool pusher and drilling superintendent has a King Ranch Ford that gets beat to hell and handed down until it has 350k miles on it. No one drives a GM in that world, so that’s a moot point. You can count the Denalis, High Countrys, and King Ranches by the dozen at the sale barns and the coffee shops. Half of them have caved in bed sides or a flat bed that replaced the caved in bed. Fancy trucks don’t get babied everywhere. |
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Giant screens in the dash with technology that's going to seem terribly dated in 5-8 years. It doesn't really matter for disposable garbage, but it seems like a mistake for cars that someone might still want to have on the road 20 years from now.
ETA: I wrote this after seeing the first post. I'm so glad I'm not the only one with this opinion! Attached File |
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Beat by 3 days but truck nuts are gay. If you need to hang truck nuts on your truck, you don't have any.
ETA: A legit gay dude won't hang truck nuts on his truck. |
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All the electronics that try to help the inept driving (less poorly) but in truth are just means to increase the manufacturers' profits (sales and maintenance), control what the driver does, and sell more cars, since all that crap only makes the car fail sooner.
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