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My Cyber Bodykit based on the Mugen kit for my CRX in the 90's (Australia). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4vsNMDkh9Fk.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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
@@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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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"
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
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.
@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. 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
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
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.
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 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
I was THAT guy in my small country town. Blitz front bumper, M3 side skirts, Z3 finders, and a buddy club rear…. On my 95 dodge neon. Good times indeed.
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.
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
I think it might be also because now we appreciate 80s, 90s and early 2000 cars because of their nostalgic look and with how they contrast when parked next to modern day cars that look like spaceships (Hyundai Tucson, Peugeot 3008, ds3, etc.). Before we used to see them as modern cars and, especially with early 2000 models, they all had a bubbly and kinda boring look. So the only way to make them look “sporty” was to get fake hood scoops, aggressive body lines, bright paint jobs, etc. plus if you look at sporty models now they look like they want to bight your face off from the factory (focus rs, megane rs, bmw 3 series with any kind of m-performance package, etc.)
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.
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.
Body kits weren’t just USA and Japan in the early days. It was big in the Australia too with Holdens and Falcons. A well known example is the Mad Max car.
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.
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!
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.
It wasn't until several years later that I found out Dom's car on FF1 was an RX-7 with a veilside kit. I just assumed it was some japanese market only car that I somehow hadn't seen in gran turismo yet.
YOOOOO that Runescape reference was super dope man. I started playing when I was 10 in 2005. I wont deny that I never actually quit... I always come back to the game. Maybe after 3-5 years sometimes, but it's too nostalgic.
Toyota Japan still offers body kits with the Modelista style package for many models of vehicles. The CHR has many packages available to bring back the 90s look.
I liked that you touched more on the subject of the fact that the suppliers kind of dwindled of them. And the reliability of being able to recieve the parts from supposed suppliers seems a bit sketchy. I'm sure there are plenty of us that still would like to get body kits and do those things people have done to their vehicles in the past. Especially as everything starts to go back to OE and modern newer vehicles. A breath of fresh air and some change, some style and unique expression would be nice.
I think a missed point was just how much more complex it is now to make add a bodykit and lights compared to old cars. Headlights used to be 5 bolts, now it's remove the bumper with all these little plastic pops and disassemble half the front end. It's all integrated into one mass and is very complicated The lines of cars are now complex and to match that well requires the kits to be that as well. It's not reasonable for a smaller scale operation to make complex bodywork when we can just do the old school bolt on fenders to solve the problem of wider tires and cut holes to make room for bigger turbo and superchargers
like somebody else was saying thanks for all the actual good information on figment u guys are the only reason i know what size and offset i’m gonna need on my car
I personally miss the body kit times when people would actually make the same car look different from one another. Now days it's either a front lip or you go wide body nothing in between
imo as of why theres less people having bodykits on their cars ; they wanna resell it later on. factory looks or/+ special catalog adds-ons gonna cost more than having bodykits.
I’ll be getting an e30 soon and I’ll be putting a wide body kit and going to match it with some classic alpina rims and lower it. Going to be my summer cruising car I’m so happy!
I think body kits have been less popular nowadays with a lot fewer manufactures making them and with main ones left as widebody kit manufacturers like Liberty Walk and Rocketbunny. However, the popularity of ground effects and wings have been rising on the other hand with many car enthusiasts going for the whole time-attack/track look for their car builds.
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.
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 like them subtle more often than not now but if it looks or is done right, an absurd-seeming one is more like transforming the car into a different one.
You should make a video about how a lot of car people are making their engine bay more stock looking. More of a oem + build. Or make a video on what oem + really is.
I think one big reason for it is cars of today have waaay better fitting bumpers than cars in the 90s. In the early 2000s you could grab a GFRP bumper and stick it onto your civic and its looking nice! But bumpers of GFRP as we all know are a pain in the arse! They crack, they split they fall apart. Try to fit a GFRP bumber on a Golf mk6😳 that 'll look horrible if not done by a professional. And I think that is a major reason for bodykits disappear.
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 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
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.
