> the problem getting worse Where's your data? As a sort of petrolhead-lite with a penchant for 80s and 90s Japanese performance cars what I'm mostly aware of

> the problem getting worse Where's your data? As a sort of petrolhead-lite with a penchant for 80s and 90s Japanese performance cars what I'm mostly aware of nowadays is how few substantially modified (badly or otherwise) cars there are around relative to the 90s and noughties. There used to be a website called barryboys.co.uk that was literally devoted to pouring mockery on badly modified cars, but it was closed down in 2019 due to a lack of new material: http://www.barryboys.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=7&p=1348564 http://www.barryboys.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=7&p=134856.... There simply aren't as many badly modified cars around as there used to be. I used to see hilarious shitboxes on a day to day basis, but they're mostly gone nowadays. This culture peaked in the era of the first few Fast & Furious films, also coinciding with the time when games involving modification and tuning like Gran Turismo 1 - 4 and Need For Speed: Underground 1 & 2 were popular, and has been on the decline for at least a decade. I highly recommend a browse of this site, particularly the older posts, to see how bad it got. Shed of the Week is particularly entertaining: http://www.barryboys.co.uk/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=12 http://www.barryboys.co.uk/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=12. Sure, you do still see young people meeting in cars in supermarket car parks on a Saturday night, and places like the Starbucks at the roundabout on the north orbital just across the M25 from Watford are certainly gathering grounds for cruisers, and people do still modify cars, but with nowhere near the ubiquity that you'd see 15 or 20 years ago. Not one of these people has ever given me the slightest bit of trouble (and no, it's not because I look like an aging boy racer - my last 3 cars have been a Rover 75, the ultimate Werthers Original sucking old-man-mobile, a Saab estate, and a Volvo estate; I definitely don't look like "one of them" these days).