vip a coupe

[kzhou91]

i have reserching on the vip style but i have noticed that they are mostly 4 door sedans but i was wondering if anyone did it with a coupe like a legit vip setup not jus rims and stance.

also what makes your car vip

[OutToWinPAHC]

VIP is luxury, high end cars, great wheels, and stance..... usually with a very nice interior as well..... why VIP..... because your slamming a premium car worth serious coin, on serious legit wheels, on a serious legit suspension. Not something the average joe can do....

You want slammed, nice wheels, great stance on a normal car.... then its just what it is.... Do it to a premium V8 RWD, Luxury car with a 40+ price tag then your VIP

[OutToWinPAHC]

http://forums.nicoclub.com/vip-forum.html

[renn]

there are vip lexus sc's..

[OutToWinPAHC]

What is VIP

" *** This is a generalization. This information was gathered from Wikipedia. All credit for this goes to Wikipedia and the sources that they have used to obtain this information. Feel free to ask questions or offer up suggestions as you see fit. ***

"VIP Style refers to the modification of Japanese luxury automobiles to make them more fashionable and even more luxurious. VIP Style are typically large, expensive, rear-wheel drive sedans, though automotive enthusiasts use other cars like minivans and Kei cars. Once associated with the Yakuza, VIP Style modifications now are a subset of automotive modification.

History

VIP Style modifications and history have often been linked to the Yakuza. It is claimed that VIP Style came to be due to the risk of gangsters riding around in high-profile European sedans like the Mercedes S-Class or BMW M-Series. The attention could either bring about police action or retaliation from rival gangs. By using Japan domestic market cars with modifications associated with the creation of limousines, gangsters could avoid detection by the police and rival gangs.[1]

Both Osaka street racers and Kanto area Bosozoku gangs adopted VIP Style in different ways. Osaka street racers, after suffering numerous police crackdowns on the Hanshin Expressway in the early 1990's, turned to sedans after police targeted sport compacts as a way to cruise while remaining incognito. Many design cues were taken from Mercedes-AMG cars. Kanto area Bosozoku gangs took a somewhat different approach, by modifying sedans with cut coils and mufflers and were often bold and loud. They also drove recklessly, such as causing traffic jams and avoiding paying tolls. To mimic their Yakuza counterparts, "Bos Bippus" used large black sedans.[2]

Automotive enthusiasts adapted beyond luxury sedans, utilizing minivans and Kei cars. One advantage presented to enthusiasts is that such modifications can make a car luxurious without being expensive.[3]

Characteristics

Cars associated with VIP Style usually have common characteristics; usually large diameter rims (usually broad faced designs) with low offsets that sit flush with the fender, exhausts that stick out past the rear bumper (although not so much emphasized these days), a full body kit or lip kit, glossy paint and a lowered ride height (usually with air ride or coilovers). It is not uncommon to see extreme negative camber on many VIP cars. Traditional colors of VIP Style cars are usually black, white, grey and silver.

Cars

Most VIP Style cars are Japanese luxury cars like the Nissan President, the Toyota Celsior, the Toyota Aristo, and the Nissan Laurel, although many European cars are also known to be modified in such ways (most of them German luxury sedans such as the Mercedes S-Class). As automotive enthusiasts began to do their own versions of bippu, everything from minivans like the Toyota Estima and Honda Odyssey, to Kei cars like the Suzuki Cappucino and Toyota bB have received similar modifications.

United States enthusiasts use USDM equivalents, such as the Lexus GS and LS series and Infiniti Q45.

Notes

1. Scott Tsuneishi, Keepin' it Gangsta Homie-san, Import Tuner, December 2006 (#93). 2. Carter Jung, VIP: Our Scene's All Grows Up, Super Street, June 2007 . 3. Chris Chase, VIP Very Important Passion, Modified Luxury & Exotics, November/December 2006.""

[kzhou91]

i was gonna vip my eclipse but now it makes me look like a total tool

[OMGz Turbo]

Originally Posted by kzhou91

i was gonna vip my eclipse but now it makes me look like a total tool

LMFAO!!!

In the next 4 years ill own something VIP status. More then likely a CLK430

[OMGz Turbo]

aint this a sc300??? if so vinny, **** drifting do this.

[djb5118]

^that car is gone unfortunately, but that's not really VIP anyways

[GarageSpec]

Coupe is not Vip... Vip is evolving as they are building Rolls Royce in vip style..One of the main things is rwd sedan and a complete car , interior , exterior, sound, suspension, legit 3pc wheels etc etc