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.

[Random_Stranger]

I am just going to tell you guys this. There is a BIG difference between RICER, Bold, and Sleeper.


Some of you are making it seem like Bold means Rice. It does not. Supra has a Bold look, Celica has a bold look. Sleeper, would be something along the lines of Toyota Caldina, Old school Celica Supra, or something like that. At least to me. Otherwise, who ever heard of a Sleeper Corvette? You know what I mean?


Some cars just look bold regardless of what you do. I guarantee if you just change the rims on your celica or even get it lowered or an exhaust, people are going to try and race you. Why? Because the car has a BOLD look regardless. Since they were built to "look" fast.

I just wanted to throw that out there. A lip kid would be subtle adding to the bold statement your vehicle sends out, a full on body kit with crazy $#!T cut in and out of the thing would be considered "Rice", at least from what others would agree on.

This post has been edited by Random_Stranger: Feb 27, 2009 - 1:14 AM