Spoilers

Spoilers are the one of the most common upgrades a person can get for their car. It does help a little to the car's performance and it does improve the overall appearance a lot. But sometimes you just can't help but wonder why some of the people get extremely large spoilers. I mean, I understand that they want to improve their cars. In this case larger does not necessarily mean better.

I've seen spoilers wider than the body, and spoilers on family cars, it gets crazy. Well, it's their car. I'm sure you can find a lot more examples of what I'm talking about on the web.

Muffler tips

What is it with muffler tips? You can see a lot of cars with huge muffler tips that produces noise you can hear 3 blocks away. I've read an article once that having a larger exhaust pipe could actually help the engine a bit because the large exhaust pipe and muffler helps the engine by letting out the exhaust a lot easier. The engine doesn't need to force the exhaust out anymore.

But then I also read a lot of articles claiming that these changes does not affect the car whatsoever other than just making a lot of noise. I don't get it. Although I have to admit having a slightly larger muffler tip does look a bit better than a small one.

Whatever the reason may be, it does help the overall look of the car. Regardless of being able to help the car become faster or not.

James Bond wannabe

I found this at Carforums.net and I don't know if it's really cool, or really lame. This guy claims he installed James Bond type of mods on this ride. It has oxygen masks, a pistol compartment, can leave oil slicks and tacks from the rear and even has shotgun turrets. I mean, it's cool to have that kind of shit on the movies and if you're the mysterious spy guy type who has a lot of enemies. But let's be real, How often can you use oil slicks? or even the nail tacks and the shotgun turret?

It says it has about $350,000 worth of mods. With monitors everywhere, and touch screen controls, and even smoke screen. SMOKE SCREEN! you have got to be kidding, let's say you're driving on the freeway trying to evade cops or whatever, you use the smoke screen, then what? I think it only works on ninjas, and the people who do kung fu, not on cars. You're driving, so smoke gets blown off everywhere, I think it's totally useless to use that.

Basically, if what he says is true and he did put all those modifications on that car, I think he's nuts. Not only is it useless, but ugly as well, I mean look at the interior, it's plain ugly. But that's just me, maybe some rich dude who has a passion for this type of craziness will actually buy it, who knows.

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Custom paint jobs

When everything's done on the inside of the car I guess it's time to get that custom paint job to accentuate everything. Nowadays there are a lot of options when it comes to getting a paint job. You could get anything from small decals to larger than life airbrush designs (for the more adventurous). The latter I believe is the most popular. There are now a lot of airbrush designers who are in the market for designing and painting the exterior of a car, the only limits would be the limits to your imagination.

I guess this is the best option when it comes to giving your car it's own personality. There have been a lot of crazy airbrush designs and it's still getting crazier. From old paintings to Christina Aguilera, it definitely shows that airbrush design has come a long way.

Here are a couple of the sweetest designs I found. It belongs to an Australian design company, check them out here.