Cheap Cars and Bodykits

Why Oh Why would anyone buy a rubbish car? What is a rubbish car? How could anyone create a rubbish car without realising how awful it is? These are all questions I will be answering in this blog post, with of course, a sprinkling of cheese...

Firstly, What is a rubbish car? Now this is probably the most controversial point as it relies mostly on opinion but the point I will make, before you burst out in outrage, is that there are some cars that are blatently awful. Take the old Nissan Micra, the Ford KA and any Daihatsu in general. Their are certain cars that most people would simply be embarrassed to drive, many of them too cheap to be believeable. I ask of you only this, if you consider a car in the future and aren't very well off in the financial department, then wait, please, because I don't want to have to be woken up at one in the morning because an old Nissan Micra is revving its badly turbocharged engine outside my house.

Secondly, Why would anyone buy a rubbish car? Well, there are various reasons. They can't afford a decent car, they don't care, or they don't know anything about good cars. These are only a few in a myriad of reasons. The first then, if you can't afford a decent car then okay buy a cheap one, but do not, I repeat, do not, customise it in such a way as to ruin the car that was already in bad shape (probably). DO NOT give a Ford KA/Nissan Micra/ Whatever a bodykit/overly large stereo/turbocharged exhaust there is no point whatsoever. All these "accessories do is draw attention to your car, and if your car is a good, expensive, flashy sports car then sure, do what you like with it, nobody will care, but if your car is a piece of rubbish that you bought for £500 then you shouldn't be proud of it, least of all should you be committing the deadly sin of modifying your car without good reason or proper knowledge. People who customise bad or cheap cars without good reason (eg tuning up a cheap car for the purpose of racing it is acceptable) should be ashamed of themselves - cars are designed like they are for a reason, unless you have good knowledge of how you are affecting the car, don't change what's already there, chances are it looks good already and changing it will only make it worse, or the car is too rubbish for your customization to have any noticeable effect anyway.

I will continue this blog post when I have more examples to give for the third and final point - why would anyone make a rubbish car without realising. See you next month (end of february 2010).