Modifying exotic sports cars may seem like an odd thing. If someone can afford a top-of-the-line sports car, why ruin it with needles alterations? Yet many owners love to put a personal stamp on a vehicle via a good paint job, some body wraps, or even kits. In some cases, it does make a car look better and also aids the performance. Sadly, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and too many modders have tastes that go against what most sports car lovers can endure.
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Lousy paint jobs or wraps are one thing, but worse is the need to put on body kits, alterations, and other touches that end up ruining the car. That some beautiful sports machines are subjected to horrific paint jobs and modifications is stunning as the owners think they’re improving on their cars. Here are ten modified sports cars no rational driver would try to show some folks just shouldn’t own these beauties.
10 Rusty Ride
For some reason, the “rust wrap” has become a popular mod. Somehow, owners think making it look like their cars are ready to fall apart at a moment’s notice is a terrific look to get attention. It’s one thing for a low-level car, but doing it to a BMW I8 is a shame.
Rather than show off one of the most beautiful sports cars the company has put out, Austin Mahone gave it a wrap/paint job that looks horrible and mars the sleek look. While some claim it's not bad, others feel making an I8 look rusty is a terrible idea.
9 Not Very Dazzling
A Porsche 365 may not be among the most potent models, but it still has a spiffy performance and a classic style. Thus decking it out head to toe in what looks like bedazzling glitter is a terrible move.
The red and black coloring would be cool, but instead of shining like a diamond, the Porsche looks like a cheap kid toy left out in the sun too long. The fact folks around it don’t seem that impressed shows how this is the opposite of “Dazzling” in every way.
8 A Disgrace To Enzo’s Name
Enzo Ferrari is a sacred name in car circles. The company naming a unique Ferrari after him only made sense, and it’s a fine collector’s item with a stunning V12 engine. One can imagine him weeping to see what was done to this car in his name.
The ugly aqua green color is bad enough, but the modifications alter the smooth shape into a mess that sums up into a disgrace to one of the most celebrated automotive designers who ever lived.
7 It’s A Stingray, Not A Shark
If you’re going to mod your car to look like an animal, maybe have it closer to its namesake. A Stingray is already a cool speedster without much need to add body kit stuff. Adding in a wrap or color like a wave or a stingray is okay.
Making the front grill with a shark’s mouth does not look intimidating, just plain stupid. It turns one of the coolest cars around into a joke and the air intake also hurts the engine so this should be dumped in the ocean.
6 Wing, Not A Bench
Adding a wing to a Dodge Viper can be tricky, given how well that tears it up without the wing slowing things down. But it can be done with the proper size. Instead, the owner took what looks like a park bench and put it on the rear.
It sticks out way too much and catches too much wind to slow the car down. The ugly orange-brown color doesn’t help either as “winging it” on modifications can end badly.
5 $11 Million For This?!
Switzerland is known as a land of beauty and sharp mechanical minds. Yet designer Ueli Anliker thought it would be wonderful to take a McLaren SLR and give it an atrocious body kit. It transforms an ordinarily strong and powerful machine to an ugly mess that looks too much like a cheap Hot Wheels toy.
Anliker then dared to put this up for sale for a whopping $11 million. Talk about an overinflated price for this ugly car.
4 Too Much Shine
One shouldn’t need heavy sunglasses just to look at a car. A few chrome pieces may be okay, but having an entire car decked out is a major sight. More appalling is that this is a Lamborghini Aventador, a speed machine meant to be sleek and astounding on the road.
Weighing it down with so much chrome robs it of speed and is far too distracting with a driver literally seeing their reflection from feet away. This “shine” muddles the Aventador up way too much.
3 Wheels Off
There’s stance...and then there’s stance. How this car even manages to operate at all is baffling with the wheels so skewered that they might as well be on the sides.
Worse is that this is with a Nissan 370Z, one of the better models of the company. To take a car meant for high speed and handling and then stance the wheels this much should merit having one's license revoked.
2 Donked Camaro
Trying to “Donk” a car is one thing when it’s a cheap vehicle put on massive wheels. But a 2012 Chevrolet Camaro given that treatment is horrible. The prominent part is those ridiculously huge wheels that make it harder to take curves and slow a car down.
Then there’s the chrome slapped on that the owner thought would make it shine but cheapens it. There are a lot of terrible “donked” sports cars, but this is one o the worst offenders.
1 86 This Look
The worst thing a modder can do is take what’s a perfectly beautiful sports car and ruin it via “additions.” A key case is this Toyota 86 GTS, an excellent sports machine that works with little modifications.
First, rather than keep the nifty small spoiler, the modder puts in a colossal steel wing that weighs down the entire back. The awful blue and black paint job don’t help, but really, it’s adding the massive wing that drags this GTS down too much.
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