"Ugly" Factory Car Mods That Aged Well!
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
- Riced from Factory? Or NICED from Factory! These are mods that the passing of time has treated kindly. From windows in the hood, to widebody's that show off them T H I C C & C H O N K Y Fenders, we'll be discussing many factory car mods that actually turned out to be way ahead of their time!
Also haha LED Steering wheels go BRR. Mine is supposed to arrive on the 14th or so this month, so we'll see. I may or may not make a video on it. Actually who am I kidding, I will. fOR TaX puRpoSeS oFC.
Also Gumpert Apollo Best Car ever to exist like ever. I'll fight you in the Wildy if you think otherwise. 1v1, Skull only, Smite On, No Protect Item prayer. Let's go.
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I am so glad that I’m not the only one who never picked red cars in games because they blended in with the taillights especially on the R34 in GT2. It’s such a specific thing but i’m right there with you
_I have found my people_
Yes, i hate that kind of blending
@@BladedAngel I always thought this, some people criticised me for not making ferraris red, I generaly make them yellow because of that
The only car I think the rear lights need blending in with the paint, is the NSX, those pointy ends that go up into the spoiler look awful to me lol
@@PoloRolo94 *BLASPHEMY*
I never knew the Hood Window on the C6 was considered Bad, I always liked it.
Whomever said it was ugly is a dummy .
It's my second favorite gen of corvette
C6 zr1 is a mean car and looks great
@@bhcamaro2002 i love how Chevrolet nicked it: The Blue Devil
The Hood Window would have been awesome on the Viper.
I genuinely can't stand the fake exhaust tips
Check out the Diesel S5 S4
@@Fiwek23452 I'm not a fan of the new Audi design anyway but this just made my opinion of them even lower
So does Matt Watson
@@redbeastthechallenger stick of truuuuuth
This new exhaust tips with the extra part are fine. There are a lot of reasons for them.
What I cannot accept are 'true fake exhaust tips' where no real exhaust inside.
Fake Exhaust Tips
Positives: 1. They'll stay clean longer
Negatives: 1. They don't exit the rear
2. Your bumper and lower valance will get carbon build up
3. On a cold day, you'll see the smoke exit before the exhaust tips
4. They look odd from directly behind
in my opinion the most important negative is that they are just... fake
@@littleskeleton420 yes and in my opinion I kinda like the burnt look on my exhaust tips cuz my car shoots flames, I kinda stopped caring on trying to clean them and I honestly kinda like the look…it don’t look dirty it just looks good to me but that’s just me
I was disappointed to see that new Nissan Maximas have fake quad tips when in the mid 2000's they had real quad tips and with Nissan marketing the Maxima as the "4 door sports car" even though it has a CVT you're expecting real quad tips with a marketing campaign like that
im sure that everyone know that but have you notice that the right exhaust on the camry is fake.also ,the v6 version has that on the two side
Yeah real exhaust tips are 10x better, and they really aren't that hard to clean, I have a 98 mustang gt with dual exhaust, doesn't really get covered in soot or anything, just gets some water streaks, I usually dont wipe them down
Wait, the hood window on the C6 was considered tacky? I liked it from the start!
I personally like the c6 zr1 hood as its really unique and it kinda blends with the black greenhouse, it's just suiting and i like it a lot
Nothing like bladed uploading to help you calm down while you’re in the middle of an existential crisis caused by finding the right wheel size for your car.
okay gl with that
21' for the memes :))
18s wouldn't be bad on a Z. It depends on if you want a modern classic look or a classic classic look
The disconnected exhaust tips on the new c8 Z06 are designed to reflect sound towards the cabin, instead of channeling it behind the car.
Personally this is one set of "fake" exhaust tips that I am okay with because as the driver I want to hear the sound, instead of the soccer mom behind me.
Yeah the c8 is forgivable because of true functionality (unlike the amg gt :/ )
Btw nice humour 😂
Yea, this extra pipe is fine, there a lot of benefits.
What I will not accept: fake exhaust without real exhaust inside.
YES, finally someone else who hates red cars for the tail lights.I absolutely love seeing tail lights pop on a car, so every one I've owned has been white or silver. It's also the reason I can't stand tinted or blacked out lights, it just looks bland to me
Blacked out lights are really dumb imo. But I can't make a video on it, or I'd get dragged by all the edgelords. Thankfully there's an FB Group dedicated to draggin them called, "I tint my tail-lights so they work less"
@@BladedAngel Not to mention that some of your earlier fans will remember Calli having tinted taillights and will go "BuT bLaDeD yOu HaD TiNtEd tAiLLiGhTs BeFoRe," despite the fact that as we get older opinions can change, and in your case regarding taillights it has were I did the opposite because as a kid I liked clear taillights but now I don't but I also don't like them being so black you can't see any red I like a little bit of red and a little bit of tint but nothing excessively edglord
I don't like blacked out tail lights either but I love smoked tail lights (like the OEM ones) with LEDs because it somehow makes the lights pop in a way lol.
The Valenti fogged taillights on the 86 platform looks really good. Might seem a little bland but on my old burnt orange 86, they looked great!
@@DeVanHelmoski On a burnt orange they might actually look cool. I don't see many cars that color though, mostly silver or white, red or blue these days lol. Can't say too much though, every car I've had was white or silver, favorite car colors personally. Just a shame they get dirty way to easy haha.
Funnily enough all of these cars when they came out back in the day I appreciated a lot
I hated red on BMW for that exact reason actually the taillight just blended in and it looked horrid, for some reason no other cars had an issue like that for me haha
You're entitled to your opinion, but in my opinion the fake exhausts has never been good looking and will always look bad imo.
You said imo x2
However, it is more functional to have fake tips over real tips as gaudy as they may look in your eyes. If you ever get get rear-ended by some idiot not paying attention to what he or she is doing and your car has a real exhaust all the way through, chances are greater that your exhaust system is going to be damaged and need to be totally replaced and that would be a more expensive repair cause the exhaust system would be ON TOP OF replacing the rear bumper. However, if your car got rear-ended and it had fake tips instead, The repair would be cheaper as you would only need a replacement bumper and that is really it. I mean, which would you rather have to replace? Both the exhaust and rear bumper and having to pay more for it? Or just the bumper and paying less? Mull that over in your head a bit and you would come to that realization that functionally fake tips are better than real tips.
@@alecday3775 you're gonna replace the exhaust either way because it still extends into the bumper, there's just additional fake tips that serve no purpose
I prefer saying “I never liked the fake exhausts and I will never like fake exhausts.” Good and bad are more objective terms which obviously don’t fit subjective opinions that well. Of course there are things that are objectively and factually bad and deserve to be labeled as such but this isn’t exactly one of those things. But this is just a suggestion and you don’t have to do this.
The digital gauges on the C4 Corvettes look absolutely amazing, retro af
Car manufacturers in the 80's be like: "Screens are the future everything will be behind a screen even your speed!"
And then the 90's hit and screens basically went down to the ones that were in your radio, clock, and odometer and then fast forward about 30 years and look where we're at now
@@meep9935 they jumped the screen technology
The C4 is just the perfect 80s sports car, it looks a lot better than most people give it credit for
7:25 2 reasons
1- it cost less to make an exhaust with a tip that does not have to be nice ( just a pipe)
2- it got generalized for "low speed hit" to prevent the whole exhaust from being damaged and the whole exhaust line to be pushed and damaged.
So why the cant leave the pipe without fake exhaust tips? It wouldn't look as ugly and pathetic than this factory fake stuff in my opinion.
Yeah like say some moron could be behind the wheel texting and he or she could hit you while she isn't paying attention to the road ahead and you wind up rear-ended with a bent bumper but your real exhaust is still in perfect working order. So yeah, I agree with you on the functionality front.
@@frz_lehmann3003 Cause it is more functional to have fake tips as he stated. If you ever get get rear-ended by some idiot not paying attention to what he or she is doing and your car has a real exhaust all the way through, chances are greater that your exhaust system is going to be damaged and need to be totally replaced and that would be a more expensive repair cause the exhaust system would be ON TOP OF replacing the rear bumper. However, if your car got rear-ended and it had fake tips instead, The repair would be cheaper as you would only need a replacement bumper and that is really it. I mean, which would you rather have to replace? Both the exhaust and rear bumper and having to pay more for it? Or just the bumper and paying less?
@@alecday3775 It doesn't affect rear ending when you have an ugly pipe under your car instead of an ugly pipe with fake exhaust tips (Both not at the end of the car, but like 10cm shorter). You would have to replace only the bumber in both ways. The bumber without fake exhaust tips would probably be cheaper. Anyways why would I care about the costs if i get rear ended. The person which caused the accident would have to pay for it.
@@frz_lehmann3003 it protects your actual exhaust from being damaged in the wreck. If you have a real exhaust and someone rear-ends you as i said, the chances of it of getting bent up as well as the bumper are greater than if you had fake exhausts. I do get that you dont like how they look but if you look at it from a functionality standpoint, you would be glad you had them cause your repair bill would be A LOT cheaper thanks to them.
The taillight part hit me hard ngl
I'm used to collecting 1/24 car models.
One of the model makers is Maisto and quite often they don't bother making taillights a separate plastic piece, just red paint on a metal body.
However on red models they don't even bother to *APPLY* that paint, which results in taillights having the *EXACT SAME PAINT* as the body.
Look up their 1/24 370Z as an example, it's hideous.
Eww Maisto makes the worst garbage quality models I have seen, I'll rather buy hotwheels!
Holy fuck the 370 is horrible
Oh it’s awful.
Maisto as a company Is terrible when it comes to quality control. Almost all of their cars have orange peel, my spoilers keep falling off, and the wheels wobble more than my fat cat. It's just not worth the price.
No clue what you people are talking about. I have a 60 dollar centenario model at home and it looks great and is built well
Bladed, thank you for putting the Proton Wira Special Edition at the beginning, really calms my Malaysian heart, very proud to see that my country gets a representation in your video. Yes, the wing is rice (because the car only had 8% more horsepower than the standard Wira Aeroback), and my uncle had one without the wing, but it's cheeky, and I love that.
WHERE'S THE WIRA??? HERE'S THE WIRAAA!!!!
5:36, yeah I can relate to that.
When I was a kid, I would try to avoid red cars when the taillights directly touched the body (and I still do actually), unless it is a different shade of red. Even for Test Drive Unlimited, I remember going for a yellow Enzo and a white F430 because of the taillights. In other games where you could place decals and vinyls wherever you like (like NFS, Carbon, Most Wanted, Pro Street, and Juiced 2), I would have to use something to separate the body from the tails if I wanted a red car.
If I ever own a supercar, which I doubt, I rather have a grocery getter exhaust than fake tips. Good grief it feels like I'm driving a politician: promises cool shit, is a bunch of misplaced metal and smoke in the end
Dude I just cannot agree with clear tail lights. Red tail lights are part of the aesthetic of cars in general to me.
Works with some cars and not others. Works for some people and not others. To each their own.
My 2012 F-150 came with clear tail lights and it makes the truck look better. I agree with you about the clear in red. It looks good. Love the videos!!
Bladed doesn’t miss with these videos recently
My views show otherwise :(
@@BladedAngel let's hope the algorithm helps out
@@BladedAngel pray to the algorithm gods
@@BladedAngel it’s unfortunate man, u deserve way more views than u get. I’ve been watching u for a few years so you’ve helped me shape my taste in cars in some way lol, and I thank u for that.
Also I partly blame u for why I’m a weeb now lmao :)
Just watched the new Life of Palos video and he gave you a shout out for this video. Never heard of this channel before but great commentary and loved the video!
Best lost trend: individual keys of different shapes for different functions.
Worst trend: piano black plastic that gets dirty and scratches even if you don't touch it.
Around 6:30ish you are NOT the only one who feels that way about red tail lights. You hit my thoughts on them exactly. I personally don’t care for red paint so much because of it’s difficulty to match, but my truck is the one exception. She’s a clean-ish sh**box, though I can’t say I will buy another red vehicle. I like the passion you put into your video, this is my 1st. You made a sub outta me! Safe to way what’s next to binge
Jeremy Clarkson: The Apollo is too flashy
Ronald Gumpert : I took that personally
Tengen Uzui: I took that spiritually
i didnt see that coming
To me the Gumpert Apollo was always a gorgeous car... trends I hate, matta black abs plastic on the exterior of cars... my 2020 civic has it and I've been slowly painting them to gloss black to match my color scheme of gunmetal and black
4:25 Shows a 944 with clear taillights but didn't mention the 944 in the widebody section. When Porsche took the 924, wodebody'd it and released the 944
Bladed I think that when time goes by the multipla could get beautiful. It's Probably ahead of its time.
i dunno bout that one chief
@@BladedAngel you never know bladed. you never know...
@@BladedAngel i mean it's not pretty from factory but i think that if you bag it,paint it black and aftermarket wheels it could look better or even decent
Bro I totally agree with you on the red taillight thing. Red cars with clear taillights are sick. But when you get red lights on the red car it feels like it’s just a detail that doesn’t mesh. It’s a small thing but can bring it all together
Aye i just saw you in the meet in JC on Tuesday. Your vette is beautiful in person man hope I can see you around more!
As a malaysian, I know what the wira thing at the start.
That car is called "Proton Wira" Made by a malaysian manufacturer "Proton", it's a sedan/coupe sedan, it was released around the 1990's and there's still a lot of them today, half of them that I saw are not stock based on my experience. Hell, some people even converted it to Evo 3.
cool seeing you drive through martinsville to indy , done that drive back and forth from Bloomington to indy a million times
You put it perfectly into words regarding the red tail lights. I feel the same way too since like forever!
For me it's rear diffusers. I use to think they looked out of place but more and more carmakers have been getting better at integrating them into cars' design in a way that look pretty good.
That whole bit with the red cars, you vocalized something that always lowkey bugged me in the back of my mind that I also couldn’t quite put my finger on
0:06 wow I NVR thought Proton Wira SE will be shown here (I'm a Malaysian btw, good work bladed angel)
1:24
Just gonna say. I didn’t know even know about the window. Seems weird but also good idea for a corvette. But now I know
I agree with number 3, i prefer clear taillights because they match the headlights
great perspective bro I like clear ones for the exact same reason
Man the Gumpert Apollo was like my favorite cart as a kid! Also the Multipla is a gorgeous in an utilitarian sense. It is one of the most ergonomic and easy to drive cars. You have all the visibility and you can pack a lot more stuff into it than other minivans from it's class.
Even the bgm in Bladed's videos is always so thoughtful
on the topic of tail lights, I agree with you with red tail lights blending into red cars. I like both red and clear tail lights (prefer red a little more, but still like clear), But I think Red on Red is too much blending, and I also think clear lights on a white/light gray car is too much as well. Red on white/gray and white on red look great in my opinion. And as for the other colors, either tail light looks good, although i think red lights on a lighter color, and clear on a darker color looks the best.
I also had the same red car gripe that you had. From games like Forza Horizon 3 to Lego City Undercover there were very few cars that I put red on because you couldn’t see the taillights.
I love the corvette zr1. My absolute dream corvette and I also have clear tail lights on my 10th Gen civic. They look like diamond and with my type r style headlights they’re perfect 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
I first discovered the Gumpert Apollo when I started playing forza horizon 1. I was 12 years old at the time and instantly fell in love with this car. I sometimes load up my old xbox 360 to drive it.
0:05 yes that comes with a weird silver rear spoiler *(all show and no go)* on that Proton Wira Special Edition (WiSE). It has about 88+- hp. The WiSE also came with bucket seats, a sports exhaust, a tuned suspension, a red speedometer, an aluminium gear knob, aluminium pedals, and 16-inch GTi-spec wheels.
Didn't the speedometer are based on body paint?
I'm surprised seeing a proton wira in one of bladed's videos
funny you mention car colors effecting details. Its the single reason ive gotten either very dark grey or black cars or white or silver cars. the contrast is what makes detail pop.
There's nothing i love more than a nice car havin a little bit of thiccness to it from wide fenders. Thats why i loved my CTS Coupe, and why i intend to get the V-model coupe now
Holy crap you just helped me figure out why I love red but not on cars. You’re definitely not the only one!
Real exhaust tips need to become more mainstream. What’s the point of the fake ones rather than “being clean”
The fake exhaust tips have a second important purpose in that if u have a rear-accident it's easier to just exchange the bumper rather then the whole exhaust system.
Bro that's literally exactly why I never did or still do bright reds in games or irl, that's why my favorite red on a car is a good dark cherry pearl.
I also relate to the red car and tail light bit I never made a car red in any game before unless I can tinit the tail lights like in NFS
5:30 NIIIIIAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Also, i never realized it before but that is a good point about how red lights blend in to red body color cars. Now i think I'm gonna look at every red car and go "hmmmm, should have clear lights" lol (the only exception is my red 88 C1500 because that was designed to blend in and it looks amazing)
I definitely understand the red tail light entry because my favorite color is red but I don’t wanna paint my car red and I just realize that might be why 😂
My first introduction to the Gumpert Apollo was the DLC for Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2010. I already loved how it looked as a racer in that game, but the livery that the cop version sported made it the only car in the entire game that I genuinely stopped for a minute to appreciate before getting back to playing.
DUDE SAME I've always had issues with red and yellow cars for the same reason! I've never liked how the taillights look on those color cars!
6:00 I have those tail lights! My OEM ones went out so I got those they are clear when off. I think they look great on the s197. The OEM ones have their own charm too though
6:30 bro same lmao, I always thought it looked uninspired
I just noticed that in the background footage you drove through my home town. My brain is melting.
Yep I have euro spec tail lights on my 05 Cadillac STS4. There were clear American lights but the led’s are all red, the euro spec have Amber and red, they look sick.
Honestly, I haven't ever imagined that the Gumpert Apollo is now considered a beautiful car, I mean, to me it's still just as ugly, it's function over form all the way, and way too static looking
Yeah it's still not a great looking car. It wasn't ugly because of the widebody look, it was ugly because it looked like a childs drawing of a racing car that crashed into an autoparts store.
The whole widebody point didn't really make sense because there were tons of homologated race cars for the road with widebodies before the Gumpert (which is also a road legal race car) which are commonly viewed as attractive and/or design classics. Not to forget classic wide bodied sports cars such as the 911 turbo, 288 GTO, Countach and many others
for me too, didn't knew that anybody ever called it beautiful...
nice vid. really liked the tail light intel. A few things though: turn signals need to be orange in Europe, not yellow. And all lights must be separated from each other is the second reason. The second comment: LCD stands for Liquid Crystal Display. These lights you mentioned were LED's (Light emitting diodes) and existed way before the 80's and were used often in cars. Putting them in an HD screen came way later (2005-ish) and then replaced the LCD and TFT screens. But overall good info and informative vid
I feel the same about red cars because I can’t see the tail lights. I’m glad I’m not the only one lol. I was surprised that you said that.
yeah im the same when it comes to red tail light almost, i remember back in underground 2 days id paint my 106 red so the tail lights didnt look out of place haha. not really heard anyone else with this issue before, now iv seen clear tail lights o.o although some look like headlights on the wrong end of the car, some actually looked nice, i still like the aftermarket red and clear tail lights for the JZX 100 tho. this is something to keep in mind for custimization for sure, thanks for sharing
Loved the Gumbert Apollo as a Kid too i remember in 2009 i collevted matchbox cars of it
I never thought about or noticed that with the red cars and taillights... Mind blown!! 🤯🤯
ive loved the zr1 quirk and never knew people hated it, red cars with the clear tail lights is clean and see what youre saying and i now have an issue with the red on red
never knew these thing before,ty for telling us :D
saw a gumpert apollo sport on teh highway once. ill never forget it. such a dope car.
6:56 i actually DO FULLY agree on the tailights, in the kind of kind who preffers the side markers on the regular yellow color, like that makes more sense. That's why I love switchbacks leds so you can have the good of both worlds
I'm 100% with you about red cars and clear tail lights. I first noticed on the nissan gtr r35 the round lights are iconic. The red car wreaks it.
Nope, you’re not alone. I’m with you. Red is my favorite color, but have only bought one car (among 20) that was red and the taillight thing bothered me so much that I had to tint them and never bought one since for this reason 🤙🏾
if you ever thought about how gumpert apollo was made, the concept is even better.
it's actually named Tornante (the ones with aston martin-ish taillight, not the other one)
I’d say for the red car and red tail lights thing it depends on the car. For example on older domestics the red tail lights (at least on my Charger, since it has a full wraparound rear bumper) the chrome breaks it up and plus the actual plastic housings around the lenses are painted black, so it still pops nicely even though the car is full solid bright red
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From a designers / standpoint I can understand the fake exhaust tips allow better flow of lines such as the RR’s and Lexus.
It would be not only inconvenient in sense of production and cost to fab specific exhaust tips for every vehicle,
But one of the most common accidents include rear fender benders and more often than not, the exposed exhaust will get damaged , vs an easily replaceable bumper / QP fender. The receded exhaust/ fake tips has grown on me in regards to functionality.
I never liked the clear taillights personally, so I guess I'm a goofball
The rest is on point to me tho, good work! :3
the tail light rant was so relatable
Theres no car on this Planet which enbodies racecar for the road better than the Gumpert Apollo. Sadly most of the ppl forgot it, undeserved if u ask me. Im happy you talked about it
A black or yellow car with red taillights always looked good to me. Any other colour I think clear overall looks better aesthetic wise. Circle tail lights like some vettes or skylines looked great in yellow with the bright red tail lights.
Red cars with clear headlights is something I never knew I needed, but now I need it.
I also hated the red colored hotwheels because the taillights couldn't stand out (I used to just color them black as like a tint)
Hell nah, that early 2000s ferrari interior you showed on screne would look amazing with shift lights
Wait....Proton Wira came in your vid?😂that a shock seeing my country brand be in high subs channel
Totaly with u on the Gumpert Apollo bro, as a top gear fan that was where I saw it first, but unlike Jeremy Clarckson I loved the car's looks. also, to this day I'm a bit disapointed with them cuz the model the took to the track was the mid range and not the one with more power; that damaged it's lap time and along that the apeal the car could have had for potencial buyers; plus, to this day, I still wonder if it wouldn't have been a lap record at the time...
Yesss you’re not alone with the red cars on red tail lights! I have a red MX5 and my red taillights bother me a little 😅
best video posted on my birthday :)
I really love my clear valeo headlights on my Golf 5. They are beatiful and have really nice leds
also in Europe, the turn signal also needs to be operated by a separate bulb(s) than the break lights. so, any light that red is a break light. It isn't just about what colour shines through.
Small spoilers on the back of 2000’s cars. I thought they were dumb when I was younger but as I have gotten older I realize they help complete the look of the car. For example the Chevy Cobalt
Fun Fact: The outermost pipe on 18-22 Toyota Camry dual tips is welded on and does not actually connect to the exhaust, the innermost pipe is the only functional tip
the tail lights and Nia got me
0:05 damn didnt expect to see my country's(Malaysia) car brand in a bladed angel video, about the car, some people do modify it to be like the evo 3 because it shares the same design and if youre lucky, you might find one that is engine swapped to a 4g63 because it just makes sense
I too hated red tail light for not popping at all, but also, on classics, it looks just fine.
I feel the same about taillights. I wanted non alteza style, non red taillights for my gen one focus but could never find them and people thought I was insane. I don't feel alone now 😎
5:48, i completely agree. I too say red tail lights with red cars, blend the tail lights too much. Its weird
Clear taillights have been a thing since the 2000s.
Toyota Altenzza.
You could get Altenzza style lights(ie Clear/Crystal) for EK civics.
I like the 924/944's colored taillights, clear ones just look like weird headlights.
Me feeling proud when I see my country's wira in a Bladed video xD
I 100% agree with the red car/taillights point. I also NEVER picked a red car when playing any racing game because I liked being able to see the shape and design of the lights. The light design has always been one of the first identifiers for different car models for me.
5:51
I always thought this, thinking I'm the only one with this idea, finaly someone with a common perspective as mine !