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My Cyber Bodykit based on the Mugen kit for my CRX in the 90's (Australia). th-cam.com/video/4vsNMDkh9Fk/w-d-xo.html Fast and the furious was behind in style by the time it was released, we were just happy the small car scene was being represented on the big screen, as the hot rod culture had been in past movies, such as American Graffiti.
I love body kits still. The bumpers, flares, hoods, and skirts. It can just look soo good when done right. I grew up on NFS and Midnight Club and I miss it when people modded cars to make them look unique.
me too, some of the old-school Japanese bodykit tuners still looks amazing tho even today, like RE Amemiya GT-AD RX7 (pre '07), Sorcery NSX, Advance Flatout NSX, and even the AB Flug Supra S900 gets appreciated in recent times
Haven’t been here in a little while, but good job guys. I was a regular when you were at 100k and now your headed for 1 mil. A lot of the advice and knowledge I have of wheels was based on the content you made and I’ve made good buying decisions because of it. Also did Alex somehow get younger?
@@northeastpull735 I have both an e46 m3 and Honda s2k. Both of them are 💯 stock. After modifying my civic and going through all the headaches of a modded car, I am over it. Just leave it stock and enjoy as the engineers designed it...lol
Life is just an everlasting cycle, sometime in the future, people will start getting bored with all this smooth and minimalist business(not only for cars tho), and will want to stand out more, doing more extreme modifications to their cars, clothing, architecture etc. Because that's the nature of the human mind, we always want to look unique and stand out in the crowd.
The extreme modification era already passed! You can't even modify modern cars anymore, because they already come modified out of the factory and also the way they are built.
Yea also we are in the era of tall, husky vechiles(SUVs and crossovers) and everyone is losing their minds as if bulky cars that are neither too sporty nor too luxorious and were just sort of generic cars were not a huge thing before(looking at you VW Beetle)
@@luchadorito Yeah, people look at a hatchback and think it's uninteresting, but the moment the manufacturer puts on some plastic cladding and a slightly higher suspension on the same car, people lose their minds like it's whole new other vehicle, this is stupid and bound to change.
Even centuries later, scholars still heavily debate whether Alex is saying " Alex at FI" or "Alex dot FI". Many wars were fought and lost over the subject and yet still no one can seem to decide.
Everyone got into the “clean” culture to leave the body stock or throw rocket bunny flares on it. The scene got to corporatized and mainstream full of unoriginal ideas. It’s become stagnate is the problem . Right now everyone is still going for the fake gt car look
@@gt131970 Back then you had a choice. Even the oem manufacturers often had their own kits whether it was TRD, SRT, or HFP for example. Then you had dozens of aftermarket companies with multiple kits you could even mix and match. I think the guys you probably ran into with body kits, prob poorly installed, acted like they were rocking 900 HP Supras when they were barely 140hp integras. So not the most fun to be around. But there’s a whole other scene with guys who just like to mod their cars aesthetics knowing it’s just for fun. No one there thinks they turned their FWD car into a Ferrari by putting wheels and a wing on it.
I think they will start making a comeback. It feels like that 90s/early 00s car scene is getting a resurgence when looking around a car shows. Plus car manufacturers reviving some old lines and updating new ones in the next few years (new Integra, rumors of 11th Gen Evo, 400z). It really feels that tuner scene is coming back.
In the early 2000's, mostly after the influence of the original the Fast & the Furious and Need for Speed games, I remember going to all of these "Tuning Events" with my mother & grandmother. Back then as a kid it was so fascinating. Seeing all of these tuner cars you'd normally only see in games or movies. The over the top bodykits, big ass spoilers, tribal decals, neon lights, etc. Hahaha, damn.. I still have a lot of pictures though from these events in different photo albums. Everybody was taking their pictures with the disposable cameras you needed to return so they could complete the pictures for you lol. Crazy how time flies and things have changed over the past 15-20 years!
I always thought movies like The Fast and Furious kick started the whole movement, and games like NFS latched on after the fact. But anywho, elements of it are coming back. I’m starting to see a lot of cars rolling around with underglow. Brings me back to my high school days in the early 2000s lol.
For me underglow never died lol. I always thought it looked dope so I'm very happy to see it coming back. Plus it's even better now that it's LED strips instead of those janky neon tubes that used to be around.
People have just had so many other concerns with all the lockdowns globally that i am not surprised some things are disappearing. Some places you are barely even allowed to drive anymore lol.
As someone who daily drives 2 Veilside widebody 350Z's... I felt this in my soul... lol. I came out of high school when the body kit craze was starting. It is weird sometimes to feel like an analog clock in a digital world. The younger generation wants to either Rocket Bunny everything with a muffler delete or add a lip kit with 17's. The craziness is going away and I miss seeing it on the road. This episode is 100% facts and I applaud you all for making it.
@@insanetaco98 Niiicccccee! Sometimes less IS more to be honest. Plus, stock body 350's will be by far more sought after should you ever want to sell in the future.
There's also another issue. I don't got the time for making one from scratch and I can't find a single body kit for my 99 camaro or for my 2012 maxima.
Man, I remember back in school when I said to my buddy that I'd get myself an RX7 with a Veilside Fortune kit. Back in the days when both were expensive but like not "an arm and a leg" expensive.
They are more about looks than function. I like when they are molded to the body, and not riveted or bolted on. I might put fender flares on a vehicle someday to run wider tires, but that is as far as I would go.
Just bought a Artisan Spirits lip kit for my 2005 LS430, I think it enhances the look of it and I plan on keeping it forever so why not personalize it a little bit.
I just want to take a second to appreciate the attention to detail that goes on every single one of your videos. From the production, the set design, the writing, the lighting, the editing. Everything is so polished and well done and I honestly think you guys don’t get enough credit. 10/10
My mom ran one of the shops in the beginning of that era that worked on many of those show cars in the mid-late 90s in California. Autobots, Jetspeed, Prototype, Apokalypse, etc. I remember everyone wanting to put supra tail lights on their cars lol. I also remember meeting the original Andy from AAS before he got caught for chop shop related things. Oh good times.
While in HS I worked at an import tuning shop that specialized in body kits. I remember having the body kit molded to the body was a big deal. I botched a few cars, whoops
Although bodykits ain't seen as often as they used to be, I still use them. I'm in the middle of doing a mk2 Focus up with a bodykit and even though the scene seems somewhat dead, bodykits on a car will still turn heads and probably even more so these days as the scene is believed to of died out. I just wish that it made a massive comeback so I'm not the only guy locally with a car and an outrageous bodykit on it, if not I doubt it'll stop me in the future! By the way good vid, you had me at "Richard Hammond with less injuries"
I still love the classic body kits. A80 Bomex kits were so gorgeous. Also, Veilside finally released a kit for the BRZ/Hachi-Roku, and I'm kinda looking at it it with intent right now
Legit widebodies were THE talk of 2023, like every person had or wanted a car with a bodykit, and the second 2024 hit they disappeared, I havent seen a slammed or bodykit car at a car show since 2023
I have to say, I'm getting pretty tired of all of these kits that put lips and wide fenders on the car but don't change the design of the original bumpers, as these have always looked incomplete to me. To each their own of course, but I really hope that a resurgence of more creative and interesting designs will come alongside this new era of sports cars that we're entering now.
The cavaliers are insane… there’s one in my area with a kit on it and it looks like it came right out of 2004 lol I also just got offered a trade of a stock body cavalier for my clunker of an explorer and really thinking about the trade so that I can have another manual
Because the 90's and early 00's cars often had very plain and simplistic design in their stock form, so it opens up quite a bit of freedom of reimagination on the design for whatever styles you could think of. For modern cars they all had very definitive and optimized designs, it's kinda restrictive and can be difficult to completely reimagine a new form of them, in most cases you'll just ends up with adding touches or bit on the original design.
exactly, sometimes the body kit looks can get amped up to 11, prominent examples would be Top Secret V12 Supra and RE Amemiya Greddy AZ1, as both cars looks entirely irecognizeable from their original forms
Definitely not into the bodykit thing honestly I don’t like anything too egregious maybe an aftermarket front bumper n spoiler to call it a day or if allowed something oem like the racing divisions
I really want body kits to come back to make modern cars LESS aggressive. To make the front bumper vents less chopped up, delete those enormous non-functional diffusers that so many cars come with (looking at the M3 as a particularly bad offender), and just overall remove fake aerodynamic features and clean up the designs. Who knows, maybe some day, with some money, I'll be the change I want to see.
I can save you 13 minutes,from a guy who lived the 90s/2000s street racing world and kitted everything I had. I like everyone else at the time got sick of cops asking for the coke can in the cup holder to use for their “is this guy getting a ticket or not” tool It gets old swapping bumpers every time you get pulled over or lifting your coilovers to do donk status to get clearance. HOLY HELL DO I NOT MISS BEING YOUNG!!! Lol jkjk I wouldn’t change a thing,good times!!! But yea for most people it was the tickets
Hey, I'm from the UK, and our scene here in the 00's was ridiculous. Please please look up some Max Power UK cars. Things got ridiculous for a while, and then there was a huge crack down on modified cars, so everything went to a more OEM+ look.
I think my most favorite bodykit ever would be Smoky Nagata's Top Secret Supra V12, the one with the front end change. I also like 80s euro bodykits like Strosek, and also 90s JDM like RE Ameniya RX7s and what not. :D
Ironically, I have a sticker on my 5th gen Prelude that says "stock-ish". When I got the car back in 2016, my goal was to keep the car as stock as possible. My reasoning was simply because I didn't want to have my uncommon Honda clapped/riced out. I thought the unpopularity of body kits was simply because younger people (I'm a millennial) were not into cars as much. I will say, I get compliments almost daily by guys (not girls, that only happened with my e46) of all ages and backgrounds when I drive around. All I've done to my base Prelude is lower it 1", replace foggy headlights with OEM ones, added OEM spoiler, painted the rear & side skirts like the SH version, mounted/painted an "OEM" front lip & rubber lip, and change over headlights, fog lights, interior lights to white LEDs. Laso, a clean touch screen head unit with almost hidden buttons. It sounds like a lot but it just slightly changes the original look.
You wanna know why body kits disappeared? Because they went out of business, because of cheap ass kids buying reps and not supporting the original business. Same thing that’s gonna happen to wide body kits.
simple designs like front lips, side skirts and diffusers equal less turn around time and can be easily mass produced which saves time and money unique designs like full kits cost more to make and are sold for more, The current car scene is basically big business at its finest everyones cars looks the same and enthusiast have no problem with it because it didnt cost them an arm and a leg it all comes down to budget .supply and demand baby i remember back when the rocketbunny kit first came out those who had them were treated almost as royalty. were now its an everyday thing because it was mass produced .
Japanese mindset when it comes to car. Simplicity is beauty, performance first before body kits because they want to make there cars to look like a sleeper. Less expense though.
@10:43 @fitmentindustries YES!!!!!!! Finally u mention xB!!! And to be specific, that is a 2010 Scion xB RS 7.0. Which is a 7th special edition, that body kit is made by DAMD, it had 19” TRD alloy wheels, TRD sport center muffler that came only on special edition xB models. And they are around 2200 units of them in existence. Very rare and very collectible. They are fun to drive. Especially in 5 speed manual. 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
The body kits and kits that make your car look like a luxury or expensive car disappeared becasue of monopoly, the companies that control the market destroyed the other companies like "vaydor body kit" so you need to pay 60k-200k for a sport looking car when really they worth between 20k-30k max.
I think its because most modern cars dont need a widebody kit. Hence everything today is just doing clean stuff. Example. An evo 10 can accomodate 285s on stock fenders. Meanwhile to an evo 7 8 9, you'll need a voltex kit to fit 285s.
and yet it doesn't stop the bodykit desginers making one for it (at least in Japan) cause I personally think the Evo 10 looks pretty sick on JUN Auto and Varis bodykits respectively
I raised my hand so hard just now. Games got me into cars, but the passion died way back when I was little and couldn't play them much. Fast-forward to now, and I can do what I want to, and I want to love cars again. Thanks for the amazing content back to back.
8:28 $'$$$.$$ just for looks when it's a $$$.$$ add on for more power. AKA: another guy to buy from the dealer that didn't care to go all the way, no one buys a new car if there banking structure isn't able to go all the way... not going all the way means ya don't care, by that your kids wont ether so that means they wont be in the +$$$'$$$.$$ loop.
I don't buy that one. If you are driving a sloppy jalopy that is out of place in a given area or looks unkept, you are more likely to be pulled over than a guy driving a 60k car unless that person doesn't look like they belong behind that wheel.
If I ever have a chance to buy a Mazda rx7 fd in a few years later, I would put a Veilside Combat 2 side skirts and a rear under spoiler. A CWest N1 front bumper. I would make the RX7 look like it was customized in the early 2000s but I would not rice it out and I would keep it clean. I kinda felt like bolt on body kits were starting to get a lil bit popular in 2015 after Need For Speed 2015 released.
Even though every car in Underground 2 (except for SUV’s) had widebody kits, only one of them actually fit the car. The rest looked too ridiculous and bonkers.
I never liked body kits. There was a divide between "show" and "go" where I lived and basically car enthusiasts were either throwing body kits on their cars or making them fast. In the time and place I think most people could only afford to do one or the other. I was content building a sleeper with a swapped engine, coilovers, and maybe a couple of stock trim pieces from other cars. Drag racing was super common and if a Fast and the Furious Eclipse replica (there was one in town) pulled up next to me I knew he was slow because he dumped all his money into a body kit, green paint, decals, and a monster tach. There was another aesthetic going on at the time, which was slapping as many authentic JDM parts onto your car as you could afford along with some carbon fiber bits. I liked that look a lot more because it was a lot more personalized than a kit, but it attracted a lot of theft. For reference, I was in the car theft capital of the US and that definitely encouraged me to spend less money on looking flashy.
Body kits stopped being a thing when people realized that they make your car slower. The interest in faster cars outweighed the bulky aggressive look. Also most of the generation that had these body kits on their cars gre up and started getting 4 door sports cars.
It kinda feels like they are starting to make a bit of a comeback. While it’s not the same as it was before, finding rare or legit kits has become a bit bigger now that those of us who wanted them when we were kids have grown up to be able to afford and build them. I mean aside from that, there’s still a handful of widebody kit manufacturers. But for the most part a solid lip kit in carbon fiber is all anyone really wants. Though in the E210 community we’re starting to see bumper swaps from sedans to hatches.
Maybe the local Seattle car scene is in a bubble, but body kits here have never fell out of fashion. The amount of unique builds with bodykits from Aftermarket Tuners I've never heard of are obscene. And no, I'm not talking about your average Duraflex 350z, I'm talking Preludes with NFSU kits. There are also many custom aero people make here, most notably custom lips especially on cars with little after market like Classic JDM and Euro cars here. The drift scene here is no stranger to flamboyant VIP bodykits from SerialN9ne to BNSports to the German counterparts (forgot the tuner names)
Every car over 200hp now has fake black vents and lip spoilers from the factory now. Probably why ppl don’t go as far as body kits anymore with customization. I mean compare a 4 series with a e36 3 series. A base model 430i looks more sporty than a e36 m3
I always wanted a veilside supra. I was in middle school when the first f&f dropped and freshman when NFSU and TER0 came out. I had a riced out Pontiac grand am back in 2011 lol ( bad financial decision). Body kits, under glow and big wings
A personal opinion I have is, whenever I see a nice car with just an aftermarket front bumper, I usually assume it was in a front end collision, or it got ripped off on a curb lol thats just me though. I feel like kits need to be full, like side skirts and rear bumper/diffuser to look complete in my opinion!
Can’t speak for everyone but here in the Carolinas I think they’ve declined in popularity because our roads are falling apart and there’s too many Karen’s pushing for big ass 4 foot wide 6” high speed bumps in every neighborhood and apartment complex. So we say screw them and buy jeeps and trucks and jump those speed bumps lol 😂
I'm so glad these guys do these videos. This is going to sound crass but I can't help it, I have to tell someone... When the dude from Ideal Cars bounces around and makes those mannerisms.. it's just so off-putting. I'm not one to discriminate anyone or anything.. but I can't watch him. So thanks guys 😂
Guys guys guys. You're missing a lot of styles that really brought intuition the body kits it was the Testarossa and then they started making aftermarket kits for them which was expensive and they would go on pickup trucks and all of the drug dealers benz's from New York City and at that time it was mostly Bondo. Then there was a company called erebuni which was one of the first Originators a body kits then so forth with Wings West and so on and so on but they really took the drive and making it a different kind of Market memorable kits. Now if you guys want to know what really killed body kits. It was the simple little Mugen style and type R style lip kit. It sounds funny but that's when everything got so damn jdm ish lol. The kind of people that were putting on body kits were people that were really souping up their car and then the JDM thing started getting more popular with the lip kits because people are too broke to actually buy a body kit. Also what happened is the fact that the body kits started becoming very very cheap quality so they were Gap under the headlights until 4 so it really made anybody able to buy one and it was never installed right so it look like crap. And the biggest thing that killed the body kits was the Fast and Furious movie because now you wasn't seeing it only in communities that know how to hook up cars. People are just buying things and throwing them together and putting pepboy stickers all over them that's what killed the whole body kit thing.
Thanks Alex! I'm really nostalgic now, I miss playing Need For Speed Underground, I remember as a kid they used to sell this video game magazines wich included a demo disc inside with different games, that's when i first played Need For Speed before buying the actual game, it included this already crazy modified grey eclipse man i loved it even though for today's standards it had rice written all over it. In the present i still love cars with wide body kits to me there like a piece of sculpture artwork, specially the ones in the market for the GR Supra.
Stuff just got boring, now a custom car is lowered/air, big wheels and a paintjob. But when every second car is "custom" then none of them are. Its enough to just take a look at big EU conventions, boring af.
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Body kits still around just not as silly looking as before.
2020 mustang wide bodykit by clinched flares
My Cyber Bodykit based on the Mugen kit for my CRX in the 90's (Australia). th-cam.com/video/4vsNMDkh9Fk/w-d-xo.html Fast and the furious was behind in style by the time it was released, we were just happy the small car scene was being represented on the big screen, as the hot rod culture had been in past movies, such as American Graffiti.
You guys make a hell of a good video! I still enjoy me a buddy club kit
Varis and Amuse bodykits mainly !
I love body kits still. The bumpers, flares, hoods, and skirts. It can just look soo good when done right. I grew up on NFS and Midnight Club and I miss it when people modded cars to make them look unique.
@Cody Webb what lexus models are u looking into?
@@sickyridesIde assume a 90's LS
@@aaronsprojects9622 that would be dope
@@sickyrides I would grab one if the control arms didn't have to be replaced every 100k miles. Awesome looking cars.
@@aaronsprojects9622 lmao, i want a is300 or 350/370.
I’m of the generation of old school body kits and part of me still misses the absurdity of it all.
Same here.
They were just creative and cool. I dont give a fuck about whats trendy rn in the car scene, give me creative stuff
What about the recent bodykit revival from "19 till last year? Thoughts on that?
IMO a body kit and a wide body kit is the same thing.
me too, some of the old-school Japanese bodykit tuners still looks amazing tho even today, like RE Amemiya GT-AD RX7 (pre '07), Sorcery NSX, Advance Flatout NSX, and even the AB Flug Supra S900 gets appreciated in recent times
The title should've been: What happened to making your car thiccc
Haven’t been here in a little while, but good job guys. I was a regular when you were at 100k and now your headed for 1 mil. A lot of the advice and knowledge I have of wheels was based on the content you made and I’ve made good buying decisions because of it. Also did Alex somehow get younger?
Welcome back! Thanks for the support fam!
@@FitmentIndustries Yall have gotten so good you are getting copied by another channel. Ideal cars is a clear ripoff
@@Cwrigh25 i find that guy irritating
@@jvinclarence3977 agreed
Body kit, big body kit, lip kit, ground effects kit.
Body kit lives matter 🤣🤣🤣🤣
All thanks to NFS
thanks for that fantastic comment, Toyota Brony
@@obeseperson ur welcome
We need more body kits. For Toyota/Scion/Lexus enthusiasts, we need more TRD body kits 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
TRD isn't around anymore. GR on the other hand...
@@cyberneticxylem9614 true. But we can find rare ones. GR yes is the new one
@@cyberneticxylem9614 for boy kits yes. But other product for TRD there still around
And flexible bn kits! Especially for the gs!
Aren't they banned in some US states now?
Say what you want, I'm STILL putting a Rocket Bunny kit on my E46 330Ci.
Go for it!
fuck yeah
just be prepared for people to say "ShOuLd HaVe BoUgHt An M3" lol
@@northeastpull735 I have both an e46 m3 and Honda s2k. Both of them are 💯 stock. After modifying my civic and going through all the headaches of a modded car, I am over it. Just leave it stock and enjoy as the engineers designed it...lol
That's not what is being talked about regarding "bodykits" though...
"Riveted fenders" is not a *widebody kit* ...
Life is just an everlasting cycle, sometime in the future, people will start getting bored with all this smooth and minimalist business(not only for cars tho), and will want to stand out more, doing more extreme modifications to their cars, clothing, architecture etc. Because that's the nature of the human mind, we always want to look unique and stand out in the crowd.
The extreme modification era already passed!
You can't even modify modern cars anymore, because they already come modified out of the factory and also the way they are built.
Yea also we are in the era of tall, husky vechiles(SUVs and crossovers) and everyone is losing their minds as if bulky cars that are neither too sporty nor too luxorious and were just sort of generic cars were not a huge thing before(looking at you VW Beetle)
@@Kev27RS That's just a temporary issue to be honest, mechanics evolve and learn new ways and techniques to improve vehicles.
@@luchadorito Yeah, people look at a hatchback and think it's uninteresting, but the moment the manufacturer puts on some plastic cladding and a slightly higher suspension on the same car, people lose their minds like it's whole new other vehicle, this is stupid and bound to change.
Even centuries later, scholars still heavily debate whether Alex is saying " Alex at FI" or "Alex dot FI". Many wars were fought and lost over the subject and yet still no one can seem to decide.
Everyone got into the “clean” culture to leave the body stock or throw rocket bunny flares on it. The scene got to corporatized and mainstream full of unoriginal ideas. It’s become stagnate is the problem . Right now everyone is still going for the fake gt car look
Lmfao so everyone putting fake ass bodykits on their car was original?
@@gt131970 Back then you had a choice. Even the oem manufacturers often had their own kits whether it was TRD, SRT, or HFP for example. Then you had dozens of aftermarket companies with multiple kits you could even mix and match. I think the guys you probably ran into with body kits, prob poorly installed, acted like they were rocking 900 HP Supras when they were barely 140hp integras. So not the most fun to be around. But there’s a whole other scene with guys who just like to mod their cars aesthetics knowing it’s just for fun. No one there thinks they turned their FWD car into a Ferrari by putting wheels and a wing on it.
You fuckin said it dude
I think they will start making a comeback. It feels like that 90s/early 00s car scene is getting a resurgence when looking around a car shows. Plus car manufacturers reviving some old lines and updating new ones in the next few years (new Integra, rumors of 11th Gen Evo, 400z). It really feels that tuner scene is coming back.
It will never be the same...
@@Kev27RS It's not suppose to. Appreciate the past by remembering it in the future.
@@aezzil3536 True! 👍
The new Z is just the Nissan Z. The 400 won't be part of it
@@insanetaco98 Exactly!
It's a good thing to be honest.
In the early 2000's, mostly after the influence of the original the Fast & the Furious and Need for Speed games, I remember going to all of these "Tuning Events" with my mother & grandmother. Back then as a kid it was so fascinating. Seeing all of these tuner cars you'd normally only see in games or movies. The over the top bodykits, big ass spoilers, tribal decals, neon lights, etc. Hahaha, damn.. I still have a lot of pictures though from these events in different photo albums. Everybody was taking their pictures with the disposable cameras you needed to return so they could complete the pictures for you lol. Crazy how time flies and things have changed over the past 15-20 years!
I always thought movies like The Fast and Furious kick started the whole movement, and games like NFS latched on after the fact. But anywho, elements of it are coming back. I’m starting to see a lot of cars rolling around with underglow. Brings me back to my high school days in the early 2000s lol.
For me underglow never died lol. I always thought it looked dope so I'm very happy to see it coming back. Plus it's even better now that it's LED strips instead of those janky neon tubes that used to be around.
People have just had so many other concerns with all the lockdowns globally that i am not surprised some things are disappearing. Some places you are barely even allowed to drive anymore lol.
The "movement" already existed *before* The Fast And The Furious!
The movie was filmed in 2000.
The only car mods I see on the streets in SC are lifted trucks 😅
As someone who daily drives 2 Veilside widebody 350Z's... I felt this in my soul... lol. I came out of high school when the body kit craze was starting. It is weird sometimes to feel like an analog clock in a digital world. The younger generation wants to either Rocket Bunny everything with a muffler delete or add a lip kit with 17's. The craziness is going away and I miss seeing it on the road. This episode is 100% facts and I applaud you all for making it.
VQ Gang!
Would you like to see a souped up time-attack ready car every now and then? I probably would.
Im keeping my 350 stock body with mild aero and then my s13 is just getting chuki skirts and rear valances to line up with the OE lip
@@insanetaco98 Niiicccccee! Sometimes less IS more to be honest. Plus, stock body 350's will be by far more sought after should you ever want to sell in the future.
There's also another issue. I don't got the time for making one from scratch and I can't find a single body kit for my 99 camaro or for my 2012 maxima.
Man, I remember back in school when I said to my buddy that I'd get myself an RX7 with a Veilside Fortune kit. Back in the days when both were expensive but like not "an arm and a leg" expensive.
absolutely love body kits... wish there were way more being made!
A more beautiful fun time in the car scene, Let it come back I fucking loved it, Still do 🤘
Make Bodykits Great Again
Side note. If I order some wheels can pick them up in person? I live 1 hour away. Jw
You could do that if you have them shipped to our office! The warehouse and marketing hq are about 15 minutes apart🤙
Awesome. I just hate waiting for snail mail. Haha
They are more about looks than function. I like when they are molded to the body, and not riveted or bolted on. I might put fender flares on a vehicle someday to run wider tires, but that is as far as I would go.
Molded looks sooo much better!
Yeah, I hate riveted fenders.
Looks cheap...
Just bought a Artisan Spirits lip kit for my 2005 LS430, I think it enhances the look of it and I plan on keeping it forever so why not personalize it a little bit.
I just want to take a second to appreciate the attention to detail that goes on every single one of your videos. From the production, the set design, the writing, the lighting, the editing. Everything is so polished and well done and I honestly think you guys don’t get enough credit. 10/10
I second this!
Did Alex just "body kit shame" Dakota?
Bring back body kits!
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@@FitmentIndustries Cornbread?
They will make a comeback, eventually like underglow did with LED innovation, with the 3D printing tech
I was just thinking the same thing
My mom ran one of the shops in the beginning of that era that worked on many of those show cars in the mid-late 90s in California. Autobots, Jetspeed, Prototype, Apokalypse, etc. I remember everyone wanting to put supra tail lights on their cars lol. I also remember meeting the original Andy from AAS before he got caught for chop shop related things. Oh good times.
90s import tuner scene! 😍
The best part was your homie getting one and it sitting in garage forever unused... Because it didn't fit correctly. Lmfao
While in HS I worked at an import tuning shop that specialized in body kits. I remember having the body kit molded to the body was a big deal. I botched a few cars, whoops
Molded in widebody fenders!
Looks so much cleaner than today's *riveted fenders* trend...
Looks *cheap* ...
Although bodykits ain't seen as often as they used to be, I still use them. I'm in the middle of doing a mk2 Focus up with a bodykit and even though the scene seems somewhat dead, bodykits on a car will still turn heads and probably even more so these days as the scene is believed to of died out. I just wish that it made a massive comeback so I'm not the only guy locally with a car and an outrageous bodykit on it, if not I doubt it'll stop me in the future!
By the way good vid, you had me at "Richard Hammond with less injuries"
I still love the classic body kits. A80 Bomex kits were so gorgeous. Also, Veilside finally released a kit for the BRZ/Hachi-Roku, and I'm kinda looking at it it with intent right now
i still love those bodykits. nothing changed for me. dont care about following fads and hypes.
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Just know that your local cavalier with a body kit used to get its owner buttcheeks back in '01
Legit widebodies were THE talk of 2023, like every person had or wanted a car with a bodykit, and the second 2024 hit they disappeared, I havent seen a slammed or bodykit car at a car show since 2023
I have to say, I'm getting pretty tired of all of these kits that put lips and wide fenders on the car but don't change the design of the original bumpers, as these have always looked incomplete to me. To each their own of course, but I really hope that a resurgence of more creative and interesting designs will come alongside this new era of sports cars that we're entering now.
The cavaliers are insane… there’s one in my area with a kit on it and it looks like it came right out of 2004 lol I also just got offered a trade of a stock body cavalier for my clunker of an explorer and really thinking about the trade so that I can have another manual
Used a cavalier as a winter beater last year. Indestructible.
I’m still getting a body kit like Drew Peacocks mustang
Huh? Both of them are basically stock body
@@luisuribe5432 yea but the kit adds 1.5 inches for wider rear tires plus it looks better imo
@@RedKeyCam ohhh on the s197? I never noticed damn
I wanna do a full Fujimura body kit on my 370Z. Don’t care if it’s rice but I wanna do underglow also.
Because the 90's and early 00's cars often had very plain and simplistic design in their stock form, so it opens up quite a bit of freedom of reimagination on the design for whatever styles you could think of. For modern cars they all had very definitive and optimized designs, it's kinda restrictive and can be difficult to completely reimagine a new form of them, in most cases you'll just ends up with adding touches or bit on the original design.
exactly, sometimes the body kit looks can get amped up to 11, prominent examples would be Top Secret V12 Supra and RE Amemiya Greddy AZ1, as both cars looks entirely irecognizeable from their original forms
Definitely not into the bodykit thing honestly I don’t like anything too egregious maybe an aftermarket front bumper n spoiler to call it a day or if allowed something oem like the racing divisions
I really want body kits to come back to make modern cars LESS aggressive. To make the front bumper vents less chopped up, delete those enormous non-functional diffusers that so many cars come with (looking at the M3 as a particularly bad offender), and just overall remove fake aerodynamic features and clean up the designs. Who knows, maybe some day, with some money, I'll be the change I want to see.
I can save you 13 minutes,from a guy who lived the 90s/2000s street racing world and kitted everything I had. I like everyone else at the time got sick of cops asking for the coke can in the cup holder to use for their “is this guy getting a ticket or not” tool
It gets old swapping bumpers every time you get pulled over or lifting your coilovers to do donk status to get clearance.
HOLY HELL DO I NOT MISS BEING YOUNG!!! Lol jkjk I wouldn’t change a thing,good times!!! But yea for most people it was the tickets
Hey, I'm from the UK, and our scene here in the 00's was ridiculous. Please please look up some Max Power UK cars. Things got ridiculous for a while, and then there was a huge crack down on modified cars, so everything went to a more OEM+ look.
I think my most favorite bodykit ever would be Smoky Nagata's Top Secret Supra V12, the one with the front end change. I also like 80s euro bodykits like Strosek, and also 90s JDM like RE Ameniya RX7s and what not. :D
I've been waiting for a Body Kit from Driven by Style for over a Month. I'm getting pissed
That's a why a I am doing a full early 2000s sleeper build complete with un painted worst body I can think of. With a powered by honda sticker.
Ironically, I have a sticker on my 5th gen Prelude that says "stock-ish". When I got the car back in 2016, my goal was to keep the car as stock as possible. My reasoning was simply because I didn't want to have my uncommon Honda clapped/riced out. I thought the unpopularity of body kits was simply because younger people (I'm a millennial) were not into cars as much. I will say, I get compliments almost daily by guys (not girls, that only happened with my e46) of all ages and backgrounds when I drive around. All I've done to my base Prelude is lower it 1", replace foggy headlights with OEM ones, added OEM spoiler, painted the rear & side skirts like the SH version, mounted/painted an "OEM" front lip & rubber lip, and change over headlights, fog lights, interior lights to white LEDs. Laso, a clean touch screen head unit with almost hidden buttons. It sounds like a lot but it just slightly changes the original look.
You wanna know why body kits disappeared? Because they went out of business, because of cheap ass kids buying reps and not supporting the original business. Same thing that’s gonna happen to wide body kits.
Body kits were before F&F, the movie just escalated the movement. If you're from that golden era, you'd remember.
simple designs like front lips, side skirts and diffusers equal less turn around time and can be easily mass produced which saves time and money unique designs like full kits cost more to make and are sold for more, The current car scene is basically big business at its finest everyones cars looks the same and enthusiast have no problem with it because it didnt cost them an arm and a leg it all comes down to budget .supply and demand baby i remember back when the rocketbunny kit first came out those who had them were treated almost as royalty. were now its an everyday thing because it was mass produced .
I’ve got a duraflex r34 bodykit on my 06 accord
Japanese mindset when it comes to car. Simplicity is beauty, performance first before body kits because they want to make there cars to look like a sleeper. Less expense though.
@10:43 @fitmentindustries YES!!!!!!! Finally u mention xB!!! And to be specific, that is a 2010 Scion xB RS 7.0. Which is a 7th special edition, that body kit is made by DAMD, it had 19” TRD alloy wheels, TRD sport center muffler that came only on special edition xB models. And they are around 2200 units of them in existence. Very rare and very collectible. They are fun to drive. Especially in 5 speed manual. 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
xB gang!
@@MrRichstitch amen to that 🙏🏼😎
But has anyone seen the corvette with the Ferrari bumper or The Toyota 86 with the Lexus bumper on TikTok? They look sick.
Theyre expensive as fuck + the car needs to be repainted so everything matches. All about Chargespeed though
6:10 HIT ME IN THE FEELS BOY I SCREAMED IT!!
my girl started laughing because we were synced 🤣🤣
😂😂
The Black Widow kit for CRX was insane. I remember when those first came out
He also played runescape😭❤ man this channel just won my goddamn soul.
Can't beat a 370z with an Amuse kit and an Ings+1 wing :D
Liberty walk, rocket bunny, wide body, the mk5 is a BMW with a Toyota kit. Its simply been integrated with in the trim.
Am I the only one that thinks rocket bunny looks rich asf
Much better than the spoiler craze.
Funny how I see people slap on huge spoilers on a mini van
The body kits and kits that make your car look like a luxury or expensive car disappeared becasue of monopoly, the companies that control the market destroyed the other companies like "vaydor body kit" so you need to pay 60k-200k for a sport looking car when really they worth between 20k-30k max.
This makes a lot of sense, thanks for the info!
I think its because most modern cars dont need a widebody kit. Hence everything today is just doing clean stuff. Example. An evo 10 can accomodate 285s on stock fenders. Meanwhile to an evo 7 8 9, you'll need a voltex kit to fit 285s.
and yet it doesn't stop the bodykit desginers making one for it (at least in Japan) cause I personally think the Evo 10 looks pretty sick on JUN Auto and Varis bodykits respectively
I will always be modding the exterior to my cars till the day I die
I raised my hand so hard just now. Games got me into cars, but the passion died way back when I was little and couldn't play them much. Fast-forward to now, and I can do what I want to, and I want to love cars again. Thanks for the amazing content back to back.
8:28 $'$$$.$$ just for looks when it's a $$$.$$ add on for more power. AKA: another guy to buy from the dealer that didn't care to go all the way, no one buys a new car if there banking structure isn't able to go all the way... not going all the way means ya don't care, by that your kids wont ether so that means they wont be in the +$$$'$$$.$$ loop.
translates into a 30 year advanced projection of poor effort at work.
normal ppl: BABY COME BACK!
me a car person: KB COME BACK!!
Veilside was were it’s at. 180sx with it in the day. Was scrapping everywhere.
Don't forget that having the body kit screams to police "pull me over, I'm modified"
I don't buy that one. If you are driving a sloppy jalopy that is out of place in a given area or looks unkept, you are more likely to be pulled over than a guy driving a 60k car unless that person doesn't look like they belong behind that wheel.
Hey can you guys make rc wheels and tires? I need more options!
Cars with body kits looks like cars in cases. I’ll stick with the stock looks
Me: "A bodykit would look nice"
My bank account: (-$0.02)"We don't do that here"
Loan
If I ever have a chance to buy a Mazda rx7 fd in a few years later, I would put a Veilside Combat 2 side skirts and a rear under spoiler. A CWest N1 front bumper. I would make the RX7 look like it was customized in the early 2000s but I would not rice it out and I would keep it clean. I kinda felt like bolt on body kits were starting to get a lil bit popular in 2015 after Need For Speed 2015 released.
This might be intreresting channel, but this guy is too annoying.
Body kits never disappeared , they only changed.
I was in my early 20s in the height of the body kit era. Cheap knock off bumpers that would bust the first time it scraped the ground smh
Even though every car in Underground 2 (except for SUV’s) had widebody kits, only one of them actually fit the car. The rest looked too ridiculous and bonkers.
I never liked body kits. There was a divide between "show" and "go" where I lived and basically car enthusiasts were either throwing body kits on their cars or making them fast. In the time and place I think most people could only afford to do one or the other. I was content building a sleeper with a swapped engine, coilovers, and maybe a couple of stock trim pieces from other cars. Drag racing was super common and if a Fast and the Furious Eclipse replica (there was one in town) pulled up next to me I knew he was slow because he dumped all his money into a body kit, green paint, decals, and a monster tach. There was another aesthetic going on at the time, which was slapping as many authentic JDM parts onto your car as you could afford along with some carbon fiber bits. I liked that look a lot more because it was a lot more personalized than a kit, but it attracted a lot of theft. For reference, I was in the car theft capital of the US and that definitely encouraged me to spend less money on looking flashy.
Bodykits just went to "drift" style cars.
The RuneScape shout out ftw lol
Body kits stopped being a thing when people realized that they make your car slower. The interest in faster cars outweighed the bulky aggressive look. Also most of the generation that had these body kits on their cars gre up and started getting 4 door sports cars.
It kinda feels like they are starting to make a bit of a comeback. While it’s not the same as it was before, finding rare or legit kits has become a bit bigger now that those of us who wanted them when we were kids have grown up to be able to afford and build them. I mean aside from that, there’s still a handful of widebody kit manufacturers. But for the most part a solid lip kit in carbon fiber is all anyone really wants. Though in the E210 community we’re starting to see bumper swaps from sedans to hatches.
Static x hahahahaha brings back memories
Yo, what kind of glasses are those?
Maybe the local Seattle car scene is in a bubble, but body kits here have never fell out of fashion. The amount of unique builds with bodykits from Aftermarket Tuners I've never heard of are obscene. And no, I'm not talking about your average Duraflex 350z, I'm talking Preludes with NFSU kits. There are also many custom aero people make here, most notably custom lips especially on cars with little after market like Classic JDM and Euro cars here. The drift scene here is no stranger to flamboyant VIP bodykits from SerialN9ne to BNSports to the German counterparts (forgot the tuner names)
Day 240 of asking for "So you want a VW Passat W8".
ayo Fitment Industries, give him that video, I see him everyday here
Every car over 200hp now has fake black vents and lip spoilers from the factory now. Probably why ppl don’t go as far as body kits anymore with customization. I mean compare a 4 series with a e36 3 series. A base model 430i looks more sporty than a e36 m3
RIP to my 2002 Honda civic with a wings west body kit. So much money spent on that car but it was worth every penny 😬
I always wanted a veilside supra. I was in middle school when the first f&f dropped and freshman when NFSU and TER0 came out. I had a riced out Pontiac grand am back in 2011 lol ( bad financial decision). Body kits, under glow and big wings
Well I would say that rocket bunny still is going strong though....
A personal opinion I have is, whenever I see a nice car with just an aftermarket front bumper, I usually assume it was in a front end collision, or it got ripped off on a curb lol thats just me though. I feel like kits need to be full, like side skirts and rear bumper/diffuser to look complete in my opinion!
Can’t speak for everyone but here in the Carolinas I think they’ve declined in popularity because our roads are falling apart and there’s too many Karen’s pushing for big ass 4 foot wide 6” high speed bumps in every neighborhood and apartment complex. So we say screw them and buy jeeps and trucks and jump those speed bumps lol 😂
I'm so glad these guys do these videos.
This is going to sound crass but I can't help it, I have to tell someone...
When the dude from Ideal Cars bounces around and makes those mannerisms.. it's just so off-putting. I'm not one to discriminate anyone or anything.. but I can't watch him.
So thanks guys 😂
Guys guys guys.
You're missing a lot of styles that really brought intuition the body kits it was the Testarossa and then they started making aftermarket kits for them which was expensive and they would go on pickup trucks and all of the drug dealers benz's from New York City and at that time it was mostly Bondo. Then there was a company called erebuni which was one of the first Originators a body kits then so forth with Wings West and so on and so on but they really took the drive and making it a different kind of Market memorable kits.
Now if you guys want to know what really killed body kits. It was the simple little Mugen style and type R style lip kit. It sounds funny but that's when everything got so damn jdm ish lol. The kind of people that were putting on body kits were people that were really souping up their car and then the JDM thing started getting more popular with the lip kits because people are too broke to actually buy a body kit. Also what happened is the fact that the body kits started becoming very very cheap quality so they were Gap under the headlights until 4 so it really made anybody able to buy one and it was never installed right so it look like crap. And the biggest thing that killed the body kits was the Fast and Furious movie because now you wasn't seeing it only in communities that know how to hook up cars. People are just buying things and throwing them together and putting pepboy stickers all over them that's what killed the whole body kit thing.
Thanks Alex! I'm really nostalgic now, I miss playing Need For Speed Underground, I remember as a kid they used to sell this video game magazines wich included a demo disc inside with different games, that's when i first played Need For Speed before buying the actual game, it included this already crazy modified grey eclipse man i loved it even though for today's standards it had rice written all over it. In the present i still love cars with wide body kits to me there like a piece of sculpture artwork, specially the ones in the market for the GR Supra.
🙋♂️Alex and his love for the 3kGT 😆 mad respect 🍻 🏎💨 🙋♂️... may I put my arm down now 🙋♂️...💀
Stuff just got boring, now a custom car is lowered/air, big wheels and a paintjob. But when every second car is "custom" then none of them are. Its enough to just take a look at big EU conventions, boring af.
the video is nyc , but you shout alot