- As Alex says, there's some things that age like fine wine.
No, I'm talking about Halo 1 multiplayer
Runescape soundtrack, and S2000s.
Then there's some things that didn't age well at all,
like me stretching my ear lobes, Area 51 takeover,
and well, some car trends.
So I thought it would be fun to go back
and look at some goofy things that happened
that maybe didn't quite stick.
Honestly, they'll probably end up
being trends again five years from now.
So somebody please come back to this video
and check in five years, put that on the calendar.
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All right, so sorry for all the plugs,
but let's dive into this like me at a Chinese buffet.
This list has no particular order,
and we're gonna start by talking about
wide bodies, fender flares.
Bro, our kids are gonna try and go and buy cars
when they turn 16 and have three grand.
And they're only gonna be able to buy
these cut up piles of metal.
They're gonna be rusted out and too bad.
I'm not quite sure the exact point this all started
but wide body kits and fender flares
took the car scene by storm.
If you go to your local meet or any car show
for that matter,
you will see these kits everywhere.
And it ranges from people cutting up their car
for the first time and really having
no idea what they were doing,
to people who paid thousand and thousands
to have a shop mold their wide body to their car.
It's gotten so crazy
that I honestly get a little bit excited
when I see a really dope clean stock body car at a show.
Now I can already see some of you getting red in the face
and typing mean comments at me.
Hold up, hold on.
I like cars with flares and wide bodies,
My boy Gels just did it to his RX-8,
and I think it looks great.
Nailed it.
Super blue, like a Smurf.
All I'm saying is I'm not the only one with the mindset
that the car scene has wide body or flared out
every single car in existence at this point.
And it's getting to the point
where we need to start dialing it back a little bit.
There's more wide bodies than stock bodies.
(upbeat electronic music)
Next up on the chopping block, crackle tunes.
All right, you caught me red-handed.
I'm guilty as (beep) on this one,
my license plate on my ST was even GOT POPS.
And yeah, I cringe thinking about that now.
But if you don't know what a crackle tune is
because you live under a rock with ear plugs,
it's a tune for your car, usually an additional add-on,
that doesn't help the performance of your car literally,
literally whatsoever.
And some even will argue it does damage over time.
Not much, it's pretty subtle, let's forget about that,
But to make it pop and bang and crackle and be obnoxious
is the main point.
I must say it made me laugh and giggle while I had it,
and while I was driving, but it did get to the point
where I was getting annoyed of my own car.
Which that's not ever a point you wanna be.
It's extremely popular on Focus, and Fiesta STs, GTIs,
and other platforms too.
If you go to a car show,
you will hear this happening immediately,
with cars entering the show,
with cars being parked at the show,
and revving the piss out of them,
and then once they're leaving the show.
You're just gonna hear it the entire time.
Also I don't know if you guys all have that one car in town
with the straight pipe exhaust that pops like crazy.
But we do, and it seems like I can go outside
at almost any point of the day or night
and pinpoint exactly where this person is.
This has been widely accepted by the car community as taboo.
And I see it dying out more and more,
but probably never fully fizzling out.
It's gonna be around for a little bit.
I'm excited to see who still remembers this one
but sticker bombing.
I remember wanting to sticker bomb
the trunk of my Cobalt SS so bad,
but never fully committing.
This trend went (beep) nuts for a while all right?
Entire panels being covered, entire cars being covered.
A lot of people didn't do this right either.
Stickers aren't made
for being on the outside of car's paint for years.
No, no, that's not.
I feel like this is one of those trends
where it looked really cool for some reason
when we were young,
but you look back at it and just shatter a little bit
and your eyes starts twitching.
And you're like, what the (beep)?
I think this was just one of those mods
that was pretty cheap, it was easy to do.
And it took literally no knowledge of working on anything,
so we just all did it.
And plus like car companies
doesn't always come like 50 stickers with everything,
like if you're from Fitment you get a sticker
just the thing makes you extra happy.
But obviously that didn't age too well.
And that's why it's making the list.
I still enjoy stickers, but just not don't sticker bomb.
It's too much.
All right, this one I've been wanting
to talk about for a while and it needs to stop.
Paint matching your interior trim
to the outside of your car, it just never goes well.
I feel like this really happened a lot in the early 2000s,
because while you're getting your crazy body kit painted,
you might as well just throw the entire
interior trim in there as well.
With things out like Plasti dip, vinyl wrap, and more,
I think that this has gotten even more popular.
It just doesn't look good.
It's too much of a good thing.
I think you absolutely can do some updates
to your interior though, whether that be like wrap
or some things to change it around a little bit
and it can look good.
But if you have bright candy red paint
and you transfer that to your interior,
it's just not a good move.
It's not gonna end up well.
Even some car manufacturers,
when they try to make the seats match the exterior
and (beep) like that, it can just be a bit too much.
Tone it down a little bit.
I don't need all these loud colors everywhere.
I think a few others that are worth noting
but I won't go on and on,
about our huge custom fiberglass enclosures
for subwoofers and people's trunks.
You just don't see that anymore.
Intentional rust like people literally rusting
their fenders, hoods or cars for that like patina look.
Chameleon wraps where your car is like
five different colors.
They got super common,
but they're starting to die out is all I'm saying.
I remember being at Walmart at like 12 years old
and pushing the button over and over
that made the head unit flip out and go back in.
Remember that they had that at Walmart
like that radio wall where they showed all of them off
and like it had speakers and stuff by,
and you could like blast a song and then run away.
That couldn't have been my Walmart only I hope.
Anyways, what trends you guys think died?
Comment below.
I'm gonna read them all.
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