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Originally Posted by DeeezNuuuts83
They're not "heavily modified" the way that cars were during the heyday of the cars you mentioned. When the import tuner market started to blow up ~15 years ago, not everyone knew what they were doing. It was trendy for your car to not be stock, and very few people thought about the long term... so people were physically modifying things, especially before aftermarket parts were massed produced. In the beginning before companies were flooding the market with aftermarket parts, people were cutting stock springs, having custom exhausts made, etc. So a lot of mods were done that weren't easily reversible or without their lasting negative effects, especially once people started doing weird paintjobs or putting headlights/taillights from different cars onto theirs with a lot of bondo and patience. Plus since the market was in its infancy while a lot of those getting into it were fairly young, all of that shortsightedness combined with changing laws made things like law enforcement and smog tests a huge pain in the ass in the end.
Nowadays, even the younger crowd who is the same age I was when I first got into modding at least knows what they're up against. Sure, there are some who do things to the car anyway that will end up having similar lasting negative effects (i.e. the Hellaflush crowd), but they at least have the knowledge available that we didn't have, or had to learn the hard way. It is for this reason that I haven't modded a single car since the Honda I had 10-15 years ago.
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Newer cars may not be as cheaply modified as the cars from the 90s, but most buyers still don't want someone else's project. While there are better quality parts available now, people still take short cuts when it comes to modifying their cars. Even though cars like the 350z, S2000, and RSX are only 10 years old it's still getting pretty difficult to find stock clean examples for sale. Most of the twins that I see for sale by owner are either salvaged or modified in some way. Sure most of the mods are reversible, but I personally wouldn't want to be changing out exhaust pieces or peeling off plasti-dip on a car that I just bought. Other performance cars sell for more when stock, regardless of how new they are, I don't see why the frs/brz will be any different.
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Originally Posted by jsimon7777
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