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Here's a better view of how the intakes were on the outside while the exhausts were on the inside. Some people call this a 'reverse breathing' engine.

This front quarter shot is pure sex. THIS is what Merc needs to splay everywhere.

Those bullshit add ons are exactly why people want to hire guys like Tom to perform this service!

Great article. I would like to have heard the rest of the story (may have read over it), as to what happened with he buyer? Did they get the car in Jersey? Are they satisfied? etc.... Thanks for the write up.

Can I just ask why you think you deserve any profit at all?

You just perfectly stated why the dealership model is so flawed.

Travis...you are absolutely correct that I am going to discourage my customers to get those pricey add-ons. But that being said I have had Honda dealers on other parts of the country offer stuff like door-guards, mud-flaps, etc...for a cheap price, so I would tell my customers that if they like that stuff to go for…

I would buy this thing so hard if I wasnt a teenager and poor

Neutral: Do You Think Ferrari Has The Right Vision? Am I just biased, as an American, against the Ferrari ideals. Or does Ferrari have the wrong ideals?

To be fair, on a SMALL number of cars you can actually make it far, FAR better. I'm thinking in particular about the R56 Cooper S, where you can change the hood scoop from non-functional to functional and add a short ram intake to take advantage of it. Still no idea why MINI didn't do this from the factory...

See, thats an intelligent thought haha. The openings are there for a reason, for aero purposes and air cooling, and there is a ton of engineering that goes into it. I'm always confused when forum guys think they know better than an OEM that spent millions on R&D. Of course if you have heavy modifications, or are using…

I was reading some forum posts about the new mk7, and there was a guy who cut out all filled in grille spots because 'a car that makes this much power definitely needs more cooling and area for air intake' ...Common dude. The worst part was that I couldn't believe how many people agreed with him.

This is assuming you think some cars went through wind tunnel testing lol.
Honestly depending on how much you remove and what you do exactly, it won't have a gigantic negative effect unless it's cars designed to get high fuel mileage (volts, Prius, Eco-whatevers)... You'll get a little more drag, but nothing crazy.

Agreed, I would be much more OK with the change if they hadn't used fake vent material and just filled that section in with the same plastic painted to match the body.

That actually looks really cool, imo.

2014 BMW X5 with the M-Sport package. HUGE fake lower intakes

Mercedes SL: the entire lower half of the main grille is fake... and the whole thing is ugly.

Wasting time? in 10 hours they just raised enough money to upgrade the department to military assault weapons and make a down payment on new armored assault vehicle with water cannons.

I never got the Boxster hate; then again, I've been in love with it since it was first introduced. All I can figure is that it's because it's mid-engine.