Does the current trend for clean and simple sound the death knell of the bodykit?

It's only a few years since every modified car you saw, on the streets, at a show or in a magazine, was graced by a bodykit of some sort. Anything from an outrageously styled custom-made piece of brilliant design, to the cheap plastic tat that did nothing for the car.

As we're all noticing, the current trend amongst the movers and shakers is to the more subtle: clean lines and OEM parts that are more sympathetic to the car's original design. It's all about making the car look better, whilst retaining the look of the car as it originally was.

On the opposite side, there remains a large group of modifiers who stick with the old school style. Some because they prefer that "look at me" effect, others because they're yet to embrace the new.

So is this the end of the stick on plastic extensions? Will the next year or two see a dwindling of the number of kitted cars, or will the kits always be with us in one form or another?

And what do I think? I think it's cyclical - the smooth clean look will run for a few years until people start to want to become extreme again, to distinguish their cars from the morass of smoothed out Euro-clones.


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Written by:
Jason Aughton - jason.aughton@emap.com
Web Developer