The cutest trend are the Japanese Kei truck gardens. I’m not sure if it has a formal name but it gives other drivers something pleasant to look at while stuck in traffic.

Surprised not to see some of the following: Luke’s Diner from Gilmore Girls, Central Perk from Friends, McClaren’s Pub from How I Met Your Mother, Paddy’s Irish Pub from It’s Always Sunny, The Max from Saved by the Bell, Merlotte’s from True Blood, or The Peach Pit from 90210.

Missed a couple...

I like mild-debadging. Get ride of the model & trim badges but leave the Brand badges. A definitely any dealer sticker crap. 

I like mods that make a vehicle look more polished, more thought-out than what came from the factory.

I personally really like de-badging. It’s not to try to make a particular model seem like something it’s not, but rather a lot of modern brand and model insignia is sometimes ‘heavy’ on one side but ‘light’ on the other. So removing it all gives some symmetry to what is going on. I also believe it just looks cleaner.

As much as I love to got fast, no car needs more than 250hp. No SUV more than 350, ditto for trucks. Unless you’re actually using them for the intended purpose, nobody is coming close to utilizing those towing and payload capacities. Especially once you factor all the male enhancement pills added to the outside of the…

Pretty much all of them. I’ve seen people comment with a perfectly straight face that it’s unsafe to merge on a freeway if you don’t have at least 200hp. I’ve never owned a car in my life which came anywhere close to that and yet somehow I manage to get up to freeway speed and merge alive. I daily drove a 95hp…

I think you got your units backwards.
A 3330 Lb car would have 33,300 hp by that metric

1995 Lexus SC400. My uncle bought one almost the day they were released in 1992. To my 22 year-old-eyes it was a goddamn space ship.

I was at a Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac-Cadillac car show in SC in the pre-covid days, so probably 2017-19 time frame.

“I’m gonna get to it” when you mention the project car rotting in the garage for the last ten years and why they ought to sell it. “I’m gonna get to it”, they say. And then one day their grandkids are calling the junkyard to haul the remains away when they are clearing the house...

Well, it’s now sold as the Polestar 2 EV.

Add people who talk about BMW V6s...

lol, there are some really cool Camaro guys but I can see some truth to that. In the Ford camp it's the Cobros (2003/2004 Cobra crowd specifically) which defintely makes the case for "brother from another mother" since they are ate up with a crap attitude. 

This gem:

I really don’t have any petrolhead friends but my non-petrolhead friends love asking about “V4" engines and that irritates the hell out of me because I know they aren’t asking about a Ford Capri or Saab Sonnet.

Once a guy on a local spotters’ Facebook page told me that Toyota bought Scion, because that’s what big automakers do, is buy up small independent car brands to fill out their portfolio.

Louvres for your rear quarterlights. Because in these days of cars with dodgy all round vision, covering up windows is a good idea, what we need is bigger blind spots.

While there’s undoubtedly products that are both more offensive and lower quality, the trend of putting Range Rover-style nameplates on the lower edge of the hoods of basic, depressing crossovers is pretty bad. This set below is exceptionally egregious just for how poorly it was installed.