Hilarious! Did you guys notice how long the kid's pinky-fingernail was in the follow-up video? Gotta get off the drugs, dude. They'll kill ya much faster than street racing.
I've seem some fast imports too, but I say...who cares? All I can say to someone who puts $15K into the turbo motor of a Mitsubishi (or any other import), throws on another $5K of ridiculous wings and ground effects, is: You're a dumb-a$$. Because all you have when your done is a Mitsubishi. No racing history or automotive legacy of any kind.
What I really think is funny is that the kids spends thousands on turbos, blowers, and nitrous so that their ricer can run a 13-second ET, then the put a stereo system in it with speakers, amps, and equipment that weigh like 600lbs, which totally negates all the performance mods they just did.
I think this is just another stupid fad that will pass (hopefully soon). When I was in high school in the late 80's, the big thing was the low-rider mini-trucks. You guys remember those? Slam your crappy little Toyota down, put speakers in the bed, and some "splash" graphics on the side? Drive one of those now, and you're the laughing stock of the cruise night. In five years, these current kids with their neon lighting and oversized fart-cannon mufflers will get the same laughs.
I've been trying to explain that to all my younger cousins...don't waste your money on a ricer. For about $8-$10K, you can get yourself a very nice used late-model Mustang, put $5000 in mods in it, and blow the doors off most every import in town. And when your done, you'll have a car the will be appreciated by several generations of car nuts, for years to come.
If you share my thoughts, and think that the ricers are the scourge of the current car scene, check out
www.ricecop.com. It's a very humorous anti-import site put together by a bunch of kids who have seen the light of the American muscle cars.
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