3 personality types of people pimping their rides.
Car Pimping or car tuning is really a big term in modern automobile industry. This stream started from America and movies like too fast too furious or popular mtv program called pimp my ride, created instant fashion for pimped cars. Both programs have something in common, cars. In Hollywood movie you would expect cars like Lamborghini, Ferrari or Porsche, but not here.
2 Fast 2 Furious was about normal cars, the ones you see ever day on the street, but what’s the difference? Looks, power and interior. Main Pimping concept is to take some used crappy car and turn it to roaring beast with more power than you need and interior stuffed with tons of gadgets like game consoles, TVs and super big woofers.
Why do you need all of this stuff? Good question, and that leads us to 3 personality types of car pimpers/ tuners.
1. Power Freak. This guys only aim is to create as fast car as he can, he wants to achieve this target no matter what. He will strip cars interior from everything that is useless, change every body part from steel to carbon to reduce weight. He will buy a new engine turbo-charge it and just in case it is not enough add some N20 bottles so there is no possibility for him to run out of power.
The dark side of power freaks is that sometimes they get so concerned about engine etc. that they forget about chassis. They make a 500hp car on fabric old Toyota corolla frame, springs and brakes. By doing that you can be more than sure that something will snap and you are in trouble…
2. Visual tuning Freak. Visual freak is a complete opposite of power freak, he will put all the gadgets you can inside his car like fridge, TVs in every bolster, game consoles or something crazy like aquarium. He simply wants to make a home on wheels from his car.
Of course real visual tuning freak will also make a total makeover of his cars body, adding side skirts, spoilers and buying new super big rims.
The problem is that all he does is changing the outer look of a car and leaving old engine which usually isn’t some monster big and all this additional stuff makes the car even slower.
3. The middle guy. As always there are people who don’t know which way to choose so they mix the two creating cars, I personally like the most.
They are fast enough to travel with a reasonable speed and contain all the useful gadgets that make traveling much more entertaining and comfortable. Usually middle guys tune body by adding some additional small side skirts, but they make it in a classy way so car doesn’t look like a Christmas Tree.
Summing it all up, car tuning is a great hobby, but during the pimping process you have to remember that by adding more and more power to your car you are increasing chances of accident. You think that it is nothing, keep in mind that you can crash with other people and this is something you will be responsible for.
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