- minica wrote:
- juri begini (yang tidak faham konsep) dan barangkali tidak pernah ikut autoshow yang kasi rosak semangat orang ikut autoshow...
sistem marking aku dengar international punya.. 
VIP Style refers to the modification of Japanese luxury
automobiles to make them more fashionable and even more luxurious. VIP
Style are typically large, expensive, rear-wheel drive sedans, though automotive enthusiasts use other cars like minivans and Kei cars. Once associated with the yakuza, VIP Style modifications now are a subset of automotive modificati
HistoryVIP Style
modifications and history have often been linked to the yakuza. It is claimed
that VIP Style came to be due to the risk of gangsters riding around in
high-profile European sedans like the Mercedes
S-Class or BMW
M-Series. The attention could either bring about police action or
retaliation from rival gangs. By using Japan domestic market cars with modifications
associated with the creation of limousines, gangsters could avoid detection by the police
and rival gangs.
[1]Both Osaka street
racers and Kanto area
Bosozoku (motorcycle and moped gangs in Japan) adopted
styles in different ways. Osaka street racers, after suffering numerous police
crackdowns on the Hanshin Expressway in the early 1990's, turned
to sedans after police targeted sport
compacts as a way to cruise while remaining incognito. Many design cues
were taken from Mercedes-AMG cars. Kanto area bosozoku gangs took a
somewhat different approach, by modifying sedans with cut coils and mufflers
and were often bold and loud known as "Yankee Style". Their styling
cues were actually taken from the Super Silhouette race cars of the 70's and
80's. They also drove recklessly, such as causing traffic jams and avoiding
paying tolls. To mimic their yakuza counterparts, they used large black sedans.
Automotive
enthusiasts adapted beyond luxury sedans, utilizing minivans and Kei cars. One
advantage presented to enthusiasts is that such modifications can make a car
luxurious without being expensive.
[2]CharacteristicsCars associated with VIP Style usually have common
characteristics; usually large diameter rims (usually broad faced designs) with
low offsets that sit flush with the fender, exhausts that stick out past the
rear bumper (although not so much emphasized these days), a full bodykit or lip
kit, glossy paint and a lowered ride height (usually with coilovers in USA or
air ride in the Australia). In Japan, cars use primarily gas. It is not
uncommon to see extreme negative camber
on many vip cars. Traditional colors of VIP Style cars are usually black,
white, grey and silver (although more recently almost any color goes as long as
the style characteristics stay true).
Most CarsVIP Styled cars are
Japanese luxury cars such as the Nissan
President, Nissan Cima, Nissan
Cedric, Nissan Gloria, Nissan Fuga,
the Toyota
Celsior, Toyota Century, Toyota
Crown , Toyota Majesta and the Toyota
Aristo, many high end flag-ship European cars are also known to be modified
in such ways (most of them German luxury sedans such as the Mercedes S-Class
and the Jaguar XJ sedans from the UK). As automotive enthusiasts began to do
their own versions of VIP, everything from minivans like the Toyota
Estima and Honda Odyssey, to keicars like the Suzuki
Cappucino and Toyota bB have received similar modifications.
United
States enthusiasts use USDM equivalents, such as the Lexus GS and LS series and
Subject: LISC AUTOSHOW 2009 
14/4/2009, 4:06 pm
