Modified cars are rampant in my home town of San Diego. My cousin and a bunch of his HS friends are in a streetracing team and mod out their cars. Civics are the most modified and easiest to change around. I really hate how Fast and Furious made it into a trendy thing now. Now every cocky teen wants to mod their car.

I think it's mostly a west coast thing. I went on vacation to the east coast and I only saw one modded car and incidentally it was a Civic.

Personally if I were to get a car for streetracing I'd get a Subaru Impreza WRX. Then I'd add a cold air intake, full cat-back exhaust, change the headers, drop the suspension, upgrade the turbo and chip it to take out the factory speed limit.

But my nights of streetracing are over cuz the cops are more vigilant plus I hate driving around stupid poser punks.

Definitely not just a west coast thing! This is VERY popular here in the Oklahoma City area. There's a shop not far from where I work (stupid kids go way too fast through parking lot).. I know of several other shops here in Edmond.

It's a fad and it'll hopefully soon go the way of the pogo ball.

Well coming from the home of the import show (Carlisle, PA), I can definetely tell you that it is not just west coast. Its bad enough that the kids that are from Carlisle drive around in Civics and other ricer cars with loud exhausts and stupid looking stickers racing each other, but then we have to deal with a whole weekend of nothing but pimped out cars, which most turn out to be extremely ugly anyway, from people all over the US. They cause so many traffic problems, they tend to be nuisences (sp?) and they are just plain annoying. And the quality of people that come arent the best either. My ex went to the import show this past May, i think it was, and during the burn out competition apparently some girls thought it would be cute to flash the guys, make out with each other and do things to themselves that should not be seen in public. Suffice to say, im not a fan:mad:

I am also a San Diegan and I can tell you that a streetracing kid nearly crashed into my mother's house a few months ago. Punk.

It's been a running joke with my friends about guys who drive "pimped out hatch back Honda Civics." I think they're replacing old trans ams and cameros.

By the way, Honda doesn't make hatch back Civics anymore.

Jen

They brought back the hatchback this year with the Civic Si.

and the hatchback si is ugly. give me a trans am or a mustang, 10 grand to mod it vs a kid with an civic si and 10 grand to mod his civic, and ill beat the hell out of him....

gimme 10k and a 1999 mitsu 3000GT VR-4......

A Trans-Am or a Mustang? Even a 3000 GT... at the risk of sounding like a sorority girl, puh-lease!! Give me a Jaguar or a Mercedes!

In the movie Fast and the Furious, Paul Walker wrecked his car and his boss said the car cost something like 70 or 80 K. Does anyone know in round numbers how much it costs to modify a car?

Depends what you want and how far you want to go. Mods can be as simple as adding a universal exhaust to as complex as changing EVERY aspect of the car.....literally.

Oh yeah Fast and Furious is crap.

"I DIDN'T NARC ON NOBODY!!!" haha

I have to show my sister this thread. She bought her Honda Civic because it cost less than the Acura. I think that she should should turn her Civic into a "pimped out" car. :p

That supra isn't....