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The days of teenagers stoplight racing in Civics with coffee can exhausts seems to have died off and been replaced by teens racing pickup trucks instead. I noticed this back in Ohio and also now in Washington/Oregon.
Not really. It has to do with whats cheap and available. The 6/7th gen civics arnt as enjoyable as the 4th/5th gens. Plus the supply for those mid 90's civics is running out.
Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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I'm in the Seattle area and while there are a lot of pickups, they are mostly adults. Hang around the high schools (we have 3 in our city) and you will find mostly Lexus, Acura, some Mercedes and even Teslas. Most are using Mom's car or a late model that was demoted to the kid, and they are not really interested in performance mods or racing.
It is just the area you are in. If you go to a city like LA, the "ricer" crowd is still there in full effect. However it won't be "teenagers". Most of the true teens aren't interested in cars at all. If you can pry them away from their smartphone for 2 seconds., you'll find that all they care about is video games, and technology. The only group still interested are young people in the country. They normally get dads or granddads old pickup.
My oldest son is 11, he is very much into motorsports, and I can tell you that not a single kid in his class shares his enthusiasm.
Not really. It has to do with whats cheap and available. The 6/7th gen civics arnt as enjoyable as the 4th/5th gens. Plus the supply for those mid 90's civics is running out.
^^ Pretty much this.
What I'm seeing around suburban Atlanta more and more are 20-30 year-old BMWs, usually 3-series, modded out for street racing, complete with tailpipe you could fit a watermelon in and wildly impractical amounts of negative camber.
Location: New Albany, Indiana (Greater Louisville)
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I think the OP is talking about customized vehicles not just what young people drive. In my area it's a mix of lifted up trucks, old American cars, and a few compact Japanese cars like Civics. It blows my mind that people will pay thousands to make a vehicle smoke or replace perfectly fine wheels with fancy wheels.
Usually when an idiot floors the acceleration on a raised truck from stop sign, I cannot help but think about that person's single digit IQ...
If one wants to be "fast/furious" last thing they should want, it is a heavy vehicle with high distance from the ground that will tip over at curves and cannot stop in a decent safe distance.
Here it's mostly older fat guys wearing backwards baseball hats driving an over-boosted turbo diesel truck.
Some of them have modified them with hot rod roms and even added vertical smoke stacks so they can blow coal black smoke and pretend that they are driving an 18 wheeler. They also frequently leave the beast idling whenever they park.
I think it's compensation for the feelings of inadequacy do to their having small "hands".
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