Now, this isn't a bitching or ranting thread, I'm just curious to why you all think it evolved the way it did. I remember growing up and around when I got my first car, street racing and highway pulls was very prevalent. I'd heard stories of people faking a crash on the highway then a group of cars would go a 1/4 mile up and start doing pulls from a stop.

The scene changed a few times to doing whatever else, but now a days all I see is hellaflush cars that are a half inch off the ground driving slower than an 80 year old woman leaving church on a Sunday afternoon. Even with the car guys i hang out with who all own S2000's it isn't very different. Recently on another board I just saw that over half the people in town are now a few inches off the ground and none of them do any real driving anymore. No one really looks for a good curvy road or does anything close to the limit type of driving, hell only a couple of them even go to the track.

One guy was giving me crap because my car is at a stock height. I laughed and said lets take it to the "track" and he didn't even do a single hard lap, because when he hit a manhole cover mid turn his super stiff suspension would shake the car so hard he's lose traction if he was going flat out. But my fender gap is obviously the problem?! Effectively, he took an amazing handling car, and ruined it for the sake of it looking subjectively better.

For the tl:dr croud here's some cliffs:

-Wondering why the car scene went from actual racing, to having slammed cars and talking in parking lots all night
-Someone was talking shit because I have a stock fender gap, so we went to a track, and he couldn't drive because his slammed car on worse then stock coilovers couldn't take a minimal bump without him losing control.

I thought I'd share today, as I'm bored at work, maybe I should just suck it up, buy some tires, and head down to Sebring soon.


edit: I'm not against the hellaflush crowd either, but I just think it's stupid to take a car like an s2000 and do that to it. To me it's the same as taking a viper and making it untrackable because of body mods.