Bold looks or sleeper?, Which do you prefer? Options

[blu94gt]

So a buddy and I were having a somewhat heated discussion of what he should do with his G35 and it pretty much came down to this: when building your car, would you rather give it bold looks (body kit, rims, etc) and sacrifice some performance or make the car a sleeper (all performance, pretty much stock looks). This can apply to any kind of car/bike, not just Celicas.

I personally prefer the sleeper. Get a good quiet exhaust, suspension setup, keep stock rims with some good tires, do whatever to the motor you want to do, and blow the doors off any un-suspecting opponent.

My favorite sleeper I've come across was an old POS VW hatch. It was an 80's something, brown and rusty, sounded like ****, running on steelies. He blew the doors off my Mustang, and my friend and I were just like "wtf." Turns out he pretty much had a swap from a newer VW GTi with a bigger turbo, downpipe, engine management, etc and had drilled a bunch of holes in the muffler and exhaust to make it sound like he was just running with an old rusty exhaust.

[Akirad1]

sleepers are cool. but like jcaron said i like functionality and form. why have something that looks like it has 1000 hp, when it only has 100.

[blu94gt]

sleepers are cool. but like jcaron said i like functionality and form. why have something that looks like it has 1000 hp, when it only has 100.

I agree on that note, there are so many body-kitted cars both on this site and around town that have nothing done for performance at all. If you're going to put all the work into a kit like that, give the car some performance to match. That huge wing and aero-bumper set won't do you any good other than looking stupid.

And to be a sleeper it doesn't have to be a POS, but like in the case of my buddy's G35 he has 20's on it, if he were to do say a turbo setup or something with a quiet exhaust, there's still nothing that would distinguish it from any other G35 coupe on the road until he flew away.