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Originally Posted by derklug
Not everything is done to impress others. My friend has one of the fastest belt sanders in the world, it will impress nobody other than fellow belt sander racers. I make diesel engines run and produce average results and last a long time, just what their owners desire, but they are not impressive. My hobby is making gas engines run fast and who cares about longevity, but I don't build top fuel cars, so my little motors only impress me. My Miata looks more like something my wife would drive rather than a curve buster, but I like to twist it's tail and could care less if people wonder why the old fat guy is driving a "girls car". Make your car please you, and damn the rest of the world.
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Yes, but clearly an entire industry exists to support the ricer industry. Surely these non-functional mods were done to "impress others".
And clearly by the responses of thousands of people all over the world (see how many hits "It's only a civic" there are on forums:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22it...aq=f&aqi=&aql=
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that people respect/disrespect cars based on the stock model, regardless of mods.
Unlike some self-righteous people, I recognize that we are all of us humans who feel good when we are affirmed - either by our bosses, our spouses, our children, our parents or even fellow motorists; what I'm doing is proposing a theory that modding our cars will generally not get the car any more respect than the base model itself. The number of google hits on "It's only a civic" is proof of that.