My gut wants to tell me the quality of cars. But that would be just an opinion of mine because I'm not really into the whole tuning of cars to the extinct most people are. But reality tells me that times have changed. Car shows aren't what's in these days. In the late 90s/early to mid 2000s, you could find a tuner style show damn near every week. They were everywhere. We were racking up trophies left and right. But as fads come and go, fancy paint jobs, body kits and crazy concoctions went by the wayside and people started heading into a more "performance" aspect of modifying. I use quotations around performance because a lot of people were slapping IHEs on their cars and calling them race cars. Not worrying about paint and such. Also this drifting thing was coming around. People just got disinterested in how their cars looked compared to how they ran.Originally Posted by dc5-rsx
I say NOPI shows were much better back in the late 80s/early 90s because they featured your California lowriders and mini-trucks and, what brought NOPI to the public in the beginning, Volkswagens. The import tuning scene wasn't really in at that time. Bascially, the import tuning scene then was a car version of mini-trucking. You would take your cars (late 80s Nissan Sentras were hot then) and outfit them with wild paint schemes and wheels and drop. A few engine embellishments were added. Intakes were modified and components were painted/chromed or whatever.
Now where I say those NOPI shows were the best, someone of your age, who grew up in the era of the late 90s/early 2000s NOPI shows, would obviously disagree and refer to the shows grew up on were the best. There is no right or wrong answer and that's the beauty of it.
Ahhh. I'm 42.
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