Just posing a question. Please keep the hater-ade to a minimum

Why do you personally modify your car? Why take an expensive luxury performance oriented car that a company has spent years engineering and start taking it apart the day you bring it home? I could understand wanting to make a few mods on a Ford Festiva or a Dodge Neon, but a Lexus? I'm not referring to a few cosmetic mods or anything, but the more invasive mods like intakes, exhausts, suspension mods, etc. Whats the rationale?

 

Lex5150, dont matter what car you choose to mod, thing is you start with the best car you can afford to start with and go from there. Has nothing to do with luxury/sports/economy, your either a modder or your not.

I wouldnt even bother modding a Neon... (other than replace the factory spkrs with something better) OH and 5% tint so no one can see its me driving it...

 

Stock looks too... stock. I want to be unique or different, plus it's just a Lexus .

 

*cough* toyota

 

i can see two main reasons why people modify a high-end car:

customization
performance/aesthetic enhancement

 

You wouldn't modify a high end car (i.e. Porsche, Lamborghini, Ferrari, Aston Martin) The IS is far from a high end car, LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLLLLOOOO.

 

:im with stupid: $35 - $40 is not HIGH END..

 

Because no car is perfect. Remember, all manufacturers (Except maybe for Exotic cars) build cars to appeal to the majority of buyers in that class. That means it is a compromise. The right car for someone might just be the car with the least amount of compromise, or compromises that the buyer can live it. I have never seen the perfect car yet.

Also, I for one just modify anything just because it is fun. I think personalizing ones car is just plain old fun to do. People paint as a hobby, people build arts and crafts, I just modify my cars as a hobby. It doesn't matter if it is my moped, or my Lexus. I always do something different to it. It could be simple or extreme, but it never stays 100% stock. It is like buying a house. You can paint the rooms the color you want, add the furniture you want, accessorize it the way you want. It makes your house your home.

 

Luxury cars shouldnt be modified, rather make to look better.

 

The vast majority of Lexus owner's don't mod their cars. People that are inclined to do mods, to be unique, have fun, make a personal statement, or want to get an off the rack car perfected to their taste, tend to show up here. So you aren't getting an accurate sampling of the average IS owner here.

You should see what "higher end" Porsche owners do to their cars.

 

Depends which Neon you are talking about. The Neon SRT-4 just begs for performance mods. With stage 3 tuning, that Neon will put out well over 300 horsepower and do the quarter in the mid 12s. http://www.automobilemag.com/reviews...n_srt4_stage3/

 

I won't mod it in any way that would affect the warranty (or make it look tacky IMO)

 

and mods beg for vandalism and theft

 

stand out from the rest of the crowd especially with increasing numbers on the streets

 

exactly... and yeah.. i dont think the 2is is anywhere close to being high end.