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In my personal opinion, modified cars should be about making your car unique and to your tastes and your tastes alone. Unfortunately this isn’t the case with many people, as lot choose to follow trends set by magazines and from things like music videos.

And lets face it, who makes these videos? And where do they find these people who work for these magazines? Many of them are just people who work for a publishing company, and to them its just a job. So they are probably basing What’s hot at the moment on what they saw on MTV the night before, or from an email sent to them from some supplier who has some new wheels out, fresh from the far east.

In the real world, what’s hot is based on who you talk to. There will always be people who love big lairy kits, and their will always be people who love subtle Euro cars. This is shown at the shows we have been to this year so far, there is still the usual mad as toast cars with more fibreglass than you can shake a stick at, and there is also a wide range of other styled cars, all getting attention from the people walking by.

If you do follow modified car fashion then you’ll probably know that jap cars are pretty popular at the moment. In both the styling aspect, and the drifting/motor sport aspect. JDM is a phrase being thrown about the streets at the moment, it stands for Japanese Domestic market and is basically what we Euro nuts have been doing for years

The art of modifying a car and just using pars from other cars either made by the same company, or the same country. A lot of dubbers put Audi or Porsche parts on their dubs, and now the jap guys are doing a similar thing.

Manufacturers pick up on these trends and have started tailoring their products to suit. Wheel companies are releasing old alloy wheels with new JDM styled influences.

I guess fashion is just another word for the end result of some good marketing. And on that note, i bid you farewell.

Ed.

My business partner and I are both heavily involved in the modified and performance car scene, even more so than most people. This is due to the levels of involvement we have with the different people and areas within the scene itself.

We deal with the trade end of the scene, and know that a lot of traders are having a hard time this year. Areas like window tinting, and bodykit sales are down - have those “fads” passed?

In addition to the trade end, we also deal with the show organisers and promoters on a regular basis too. We know that some shows have been cancelled this year as they felt there were too many, and we know that the attendance at the shows has been down too - so far this year anyway.

And finally, we deal with the user end of the scene, the consumers and the customers. The actual car owners themselves who keep the scene alive year after year. In the first few months of this year, we noticed the drop in the scene straight away and we initially thought that it was dying. We thought that new laws being passed, and new fashions springing up meant the end of the modified and performance car scene in the UK.

Then the show season started, and we noticed that there were still the regular hard core show-goers attending, a few new clubs and members too - and although attendance figures were nothing compared to the last few years, there was still a good selection of cars and people which meant the shows were still buzzing with enthusiasm.

So we sat down and started talking about what we had said about the scene, and that we were wrong. The scene isn’t dying, its just changing!

The times of sticking huge bodykits and wide arches onto your corsa seem to be coming to an end, and more and more people are leaving their cars standardish, and are getting more into the motorsport aspect of the scene.

Many of the people i know are now drifters, blagging local tyre places for any unwanted tyres so they can stock up for those days out at DWYB at pod. Most of them have highly tuned Japanese cars, some with exterior mods too, but most with subtle mods, and lots of power!

A fair few of my friends are now into the strip at Santa pod, and also the tracks at cadwell park and silverstone. Instead of taking part in a bit of traffic light grand prix, they save it for the pod and race their mates somewhere where it can be timed to perfection helping you get your 1/4 mile time lower.

Don’t get me wrong, the bodykit and styling aspect of the scene is still around, and probably always will be - but it is the one part of the scene that has changed big time!

So in conclusion, the modified car scene has lessened, and the performance car scene is rising.

I think that overall its a good thing for our world, as it means that the people left in it, are the people who are serious about it. The fact its probably not top of the fashion charts means that there is no longer spoilt rich kid’s driving standard fiestas into a bodyshop, and driving a front page cover car out.

Only the hardcore remain.

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