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Marathe · Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Location: Spider Hole

Okay so after 8 months of enduring example after example of godawful cars over here i feel the need to tell the world.

Listen. All you prospective young koreans who have seen fast and the furious several dozen times and are convinced that you are, in fact, vin diesel on vacation, calm down. No matter how much stuff you stick onto your 1991 Hyundai Scoupe, its still a 4 cyl 200 cc engined car. That or no matter how many wings and stickers you put onto your van extolling its 2.3 liter v6, it remains a van.

I'm just perplexed. After seeing kids back in the world tune up civics for the past 10 years, i'm used to seeing questionable modifications to cars - the basic difference being that a civic is made by a company that knows something about the production of engines (Honda) as opposed to those racing dynamos, Daewoo, Kia and Hyundai.

And my final note on this rather disjointed rant is the fascination with stickers on cars. If you have the part in your car, by all means, put the sticker on your car. You've paid for the upgrade and if you want to, tell people. But if you don't have it, don't flaunt it. If it doesn't even make parts for your car, don't bother (thinking of the numerous Mugen stickers i see on hyundais - they make parts for HONDA, people). And putting goodyear and mobil oil stickers on your car? Why? Are these performance mods that i hadn't heard about?

Alrite thats it.
thanks for listening.

simulated stereo · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2003 9:10 pm Post subject:

Tico power!

makushi · Joined: 08 Jun 2003

The stickers is whats keeps the hunks o junk from falling apart...

BTW any of you noticed the Hyundai " onata?"

According to my observations, approximately 30 percent of the Sonatas have lost their "S" and have been transmorgified into a lowely "onata."

Same with Avantes becoming plain old "vantes"

Wasup with that...could splurge to get the good glue?

Cthulhu · Joined: 02 Feb 2003

I saw a Matiz with a godawful spoiler on the back the other day. On a windy day the thing might just tip backward...

But apart from underpowered cars with questionable spoilers and pointless stickers, it'll take Korea awhile to match this:

http://www.beaterz.com/

peppermint · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 5:07 am Post subject:

I can't explain the "vantes", but one of my students told me about the craziest Korean superstition ever.

High school students aspiring to be accepted into Seoul National University STEAL the "s" from Sonatas as a good luck charm!!! Rolling Eyes

Anyone else heard this or was the guy pulling my leg?

dutchman · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: My backyard

Marathe · Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Location: Spider Hole

www.ricecop.com

www.anti-rice.com

beaterz doesn't update enough.

Circus Monkey · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: In my coconut tree

How I would love to crush all these rice rockets with my hulking '76 Oldmobile Cutlass Supreme. Not in a race mind you, but a demolition derby.

hellofaniceguy · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: On your computer screen!

Get a 4x4, 8-10" lift kit will 44" tires, big block and roll over 'em!

richinkorea · Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 4:09 am Post subject:

My brother in laws Korando:

Me: Does it go off road ?
DJ: There's no off road in Korea.

Me: Hey, let's check out this dirt road...........
DJ: HEy, Rich, cool road.....

Me: Hey, DJ, what's this ARB sticker for ?
DJ: I want to get lockers.......

etc, etc.

Marathe · Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Location: Spider Hole