belton
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This might have worked 10 years ago when every supermarket car park echoed on a Saturday night to the pulsating bass beat of the customising culture and Max Power was one of Britain’s bestselling magazines. But today Max Power’s circulation is in freefall – down from 240,000 in 2003 to just 71,000 last year. The trend for young people to fit exhausts like Kazakhstan pipelines and illuminate the underside of their cars with neon is over.
Was reading an review on a new vaux earlier and the reviewer said the above, which got me thinking.
When the modified scene was into huge kits and neons i swear it was alot busier!
Even now every time i go to lakeside i think 'its just not what it used to be'
Or has the OEM+ scene really caught on now?
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Ian
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They need to do their research because Max Power is no longer printed at all.
I don't think there are any less people in the scene.
Consider that you can now do a track day for £60/70 if you pick your venue carefully.
That used to cost hundreds and be full of rich people in Porsches.
F&F killed cruising, too many people complaining now they knew what it was about.
[Edited on 27-03-2011 by Ian]
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Dan
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I was thinking the other day, when I had my kitted up about 4 years ago, there was a shed load of other kitted up cars. Nowadays I cannot think of the last time I saw one. Considering I live on Yarmouth which has always been a boy racer known place, it's a bit weird.
It seems the slighly younger generation are not interested. The kinda kitted cars I see now are all the older guys who were about when I was, but not in nova's. They all in new high performance cars. Like focus rs and similar.
Strange
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Ste L
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didn't even know they stopped selling max power...
must of been about 6 years+ since i last bought one though
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Dave
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The generation that were modding cars at it's peak grew up and no one really followed them. There was a time when there were all sorts of fully modified cars in my relatively small town, now I hardly see any.
Trends come and go, I guess the Max Power type was just one of them.
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VegasPhil
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Nippers round here all drive newer quicker cars than we had when I was 17.
Or maybe petrol just costs too much now.
[Edited on 27-03-2011 by VegasPhil]
Corsa 2.0 16v Vegas - Sold
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FAZ
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Eddx14xe
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I want some neons for my car
But i corsa has a combat kit on it
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derick-sport
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insurance and tighter policing on modified vehicles and events is killing it off
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daymoon
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I think hot hatches was/is a contributing factor.
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Ricky352
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Where I'm from theres still a decent number of people hanging around in the same spots only now in more Dub or Euro or whatever you call it stuff and more standard cars.
Id say the numbers havent really decreased, just went a different way.
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Graham88
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I think financing plays a big part in it aswell. It's alot easier to finance a car now, so people just buy a nice car in the first place instead of buying a cheap car and spending money making it look nice.
Plus as mentioned, OEM+ is the new big thing, well not new but newer than bodykits.
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Generation
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I blame the clothes shops!
All these benders at 17-22 wearing plimsoles are eleasticated bottom jeans, are too posh to get dirty. ONly want brand new cars
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Ian
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j10E W
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quote:
Originally posted by Generation
I blame the clothes shops!
All these benders at 17-22 wearing plimsoles are eleasticated bottom jeans, are too posh to get dirty. ONly want brand new cars
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wwwNOOBcom
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Times have changed, i work part time in mcds and there are about 4 or 5 17 year old lads that just passed there test and they dont even know what a cosworth or a renault 5 turbo is.
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Mike
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How can you be 17 and not know what a Cosworth is? Poor kids 
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dannymccann
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quote:
Originally posted by Mike B
How can you be 17 and not know what a Cosworth is? Poor kids
Because people that age (like me) will never experience those cars for what they are on the road due to the price of insurance / risk of going without it. Also, the Cosworth name was forged when car companies gave a shit about the name's they give cars, now you can buy a Cosworth Impreza, which while its a little bit faster, is basically just a marketing tool nowadays
O and as to the original question, surely phrase popularity such as 'chav' helped this scene to die quickly?
[Edited on 28-03-2011 by dannymccann]
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richc
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quote:
Originally posted by derick-sport
insurance and tighter policing on modified vehicles and events is killing it off. Also fuel is to expensive to aimlessly drive about town.
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Mike
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quote:
Originally posted by dannymccann
quote:
Originally posted by Mike B
How can you be 17 and not know what a Cosworth is? Poor kids
Because people that age (like me)
You're only a year younger than me I spent half my school life pulling my plonker over Cosworths
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pow
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It's the pure cost of it I recon. When I passed petrol was 85p a litre, taxing my corsa cost £115, insurance was at least a grand cheaper. Plus the general cost of living has jumped in recent years meaning less disposable income.
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richc
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quote:
Originally posted by pow
It's the pure cost of it I recon. When I passed petrol was 85p a litre, taxing my corsa cost £115, insurance was at least a grand cheaper. Plus the general cost of living has jumped in recent years meaning less disposable income.
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Ojc
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Because girls these days dont want to be seen in shitty 1.2 Corsas with fibreglass attached to it, they want the footballers wife life and to be seen sat in a Audi/BMW/Mini
Back when I used to have my silver B with Combat Kit girls would speak to anyone, now they are all stuck up cunts.
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RKS
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quote:
Originally posted by Ojc
Because girls these days dont want to be seen in shitty 1.2 Corsas with fibreglass attached to it, they want the footballers wife life and to be seen sat in a Audi/BMW/Mini
Back when I used to have my silver B with Combat Kit girls would speak to anyone, now they are all stuck up cunts.
you are right though!
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DaveyLC
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The boom time in the late 90's early 00's meant people had A LOT more money and young people could get credit etc.. When the cruise scene was BIG halfords/gasoline ally/demon tweeks etc. were making a killing on finance agreements and store cards.
Section 59's, the poor economy and a changing trend for luxury cars has detroyed it.. Not that its a bad thing really because while it was fun there were pleanty of idiots on the road.
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