Minneapolis Street Sighting: Scion tC

As with any form of car customization styles, fads come and go; in the late 1990s to the mid 2000s, thanks to magazines like Import Tuner and Super Street, the ricer fad started--then the movie series "Fast and Furious" came and amplified the trend by a million. Now that the ricer trend has all but died down, the "Fast and Furious" movies, as well as the magazine, Super Street have changed focus, instead focusing on nicely-tuned imports versus bodykitted wonders.

Around 2008 or 2009, a new form of the ricer trend was developing; it's called stance and its where you fit exceptionally wide wheels onto a car and leave it for the most part looking stock-- save for hoards and hoards of stickers, and possibly a garish paint color. Sometimes the cars are done up reasonably well, and I don't hate them, and other times, all the work is done to car that honestly doesn't deserve the attention, as is the case here.

Like my buddy Alan explained on his blog Auto Neurotic Fixation, the stancetards love these little shits; not a sports car by any stance, these things were offered with a TRD Supercharger from the factory, bumping the horsepower from a 160 to an even 200. I suppose the idea of a supercharger makes these idiots think that its fast? Sorry pal, it's still an Avensis.  I doubt many Scion owners (much less "bros" who modify them) even know what that is. Props to you if you're in the know, because the car is boring enough that I'd fall asleep if I had to write about it.

In many ways, the Scion tC is equivalent to the Paseo of the 1990s; it wasn't fast, it wasn't a sports car, but it didn't really look offensive--- until some dumbass does this to it. Then we have a problem--and being white, it was probably either a dealer demo, or an ex-driving school car.

As I explained above, I really don't like these things-- much less this one; it's loud, the thing shakes like a 1997 Cavalier RS on its last legs at a stoplight, and the tires rub on the fenders every single time there's a change in road conditions. Cool? Nope, you're a fucking poser that thinks being a car nut means driving the loudest, fartiest, scraping-est thing in uptown.

I like your "fuck you" sticker, too. Classy, dude.  By the way, that's what all of us who have to hear your loud-ass piece of shit think of you. Oh, and you wasted a clean set of Volks--unless they're knockoffs, which they probably are. And the "Form> Function"  sticker? Yeah. I don't see any form--all I see is a compact car that used to haul groceries and crap to and from a college campus. Now, it's primary function is to go over speedbumps at an angle as to not fuck up the tires.  Dumbass. Oh, and your "lower it" sticker? Your shit isn't lowered; its just sitting on wheels with no suspension. Hence the shitty ride; I hope you enjoy fake teeth, because yours are all going to fall out if you keep driving this shitbox.

Okay, rant's over; this has been "fuck a Scion tC" with slightly more profanity than you're used to. Case closed. End of discussion. Scion tCs are poser cars.