Toyota Shamu

I believe this is an early Lexus LS / Toyota Celsior. In true Bōsōzoku tradition, the car modification has spread like cancer in the form of multiple taillights and pointles louvers. This car was particularly hard hit, as even it's side reflectors and license plates are multiplying. And the there's that spoiler, which puts the 911 Turbo's whale tail to shame.

Bōsōzoku

So I've stumbled across Bōsōzoku - a Japanese subculture of fugly weirdness who cars I featured previously on my site. I had an inkling they belong to a specific Japanese "style" as they all kinda matched in their own weird and fugly ways, and because of this I had a "Japan" subcategory already made for them. Now that I know what this is called, I've renamed it.

Click here for the new Bōsōzoku subcategory. Note that the label for this style is still "Japan", because I'm too lazy to go back through all the posts and change them.

Star Struck

I highly doubt that helps exhaust airflow...

Art Trucks

They're called Art Trucks. Picture all the neon artwork in downtown Toyko compressed, concentrated, and applied to huge Hino semis. And that's pretty much it. It's almost like American art cars, but with slightly more style and organization. And lots of airbrush paintings. And chrome. The "artists" seem to prefer box trucks and dump trucks, however, as it ads a lot of vertical space in which to mount more paintings, chrome and lights.

Excessive Camber Syndrome

This trend seems to be getting bigger and bigger. To me it just makes them look as if their rear axle has broken.

Smooth Criminal Fug

Unlike most Scamota this one appears to have it's velour or velvet on the outside. The official car of the velvet mafia?

Tin Foil Fug

I've heard of aluminum bodywork to aid in weight reduction, but this is the first car I've seen to be constructed of aluminum foil.

This interesting car also has a W shaped, toothlike hood extention up front. I doubt it would comply to the new European pedestrian safety laws.

Tri-Wing Fug

A couple examples of extreme tri-spoilers. The LS has a stacked effect, while the Q45 has a sorta "spoiler-within-a-spoiler" on top of a ducktail type spoiler.

Viscera

I'm not sure what this car is painted to look like, nor do I want to know.

Club Final

Not sure what the core of this car is. The front has TWO sets of headlights, complete with turn signals (the main ones lifted from a Mercedes). The hood features various types of inlet and louvers, while the rear has some kind of extended bumper below Supra taillights.

Team Risky

Don't mess with Team Risky. The extremely flared rear appears to have unexplained notches along the top, a large rear wing and two skewers. A gold chrome grille ads some class.

LS, Pt. 1

This widboby LS wouldn't look to bad, but unfortunetly has a unique form of cancer in which multiple lights sprout and grow like tumours.

Q45, Pt. 1

Another trend in the Japanese car scene are cars that have both widebody kits and multiple headlights and/or foglights, and this car is a fine example. Although the widebody kit is relatively simple, it does have 6 foglights and is painted an interesting hue of fuschia.

So it's even more strange that the interior looks like a Ferrari threw up. Red and yellow and fuschia do not match. Well - not that that interior would match any car anyway.

Are they even trying?

Given the sketchy looking quality of most of the cars I've been posting lately, it's surprising that you can find vehicles that have worse quality issues than the rest of them.

The first canditate retains it's stock blue colour but ads pink accessories. Of these, the wheel well extensions are horrible. For one, they're just stuck on. Note that up front you can plainly see through the gaps between the body and the extentions. It even bisects a reflector. In the rear, the mounting points have deformed the extention itself. What are these made of - plastic? Also - it has a cut out for the gas door, leaving a gaping hole. I don't know whether this was created as a mockery or not, but looking inside the dash appears to be red velvet or velours. Mounting this would take time and effort, suggesting some for of pride in the cars appearance.

The second candidate looks better and more cohesive, but the rear extetion is also deformed and dented. Also you can see the mounting points, which look as if the flares were bolted onto the body.

I'm beginning to think this is all part of an elaborate joke I'm not getting, because these can't be real...

Crosseyed

A relatively normal looking 300ZX/Fairlady. Except it has something funky going on with the headlights. The right one appears to be up, but has a blocker in place at the bottom. The left one is as it would normally look while down.

Old Meets New

I really don't think a microcar really needs 8 tailpipes. Another classy touch are the seriously dated chrome 2 spoke rims.

Just a Hero, Pt. 1

A member of the "Just a Hero" racing team.

Style-setter

This car combines two bizarre Japanese modification traditions, and pierces the rear wing with the extended tailpipes.

Entertainment on the Road

Posted this one for it's falling apart look. Not the strange texture of the bodywork, and how the wires attached to the air dam up front pull it up in the middle.

The Checklist

I've noticed that quite a few cars I've been posting lately follow what seem to be quidelines for modification. Few cars have all the modifications listed, but if there was one that had them all I'm sure that car's owner would be elevated to a god-like status. Only to be overthrown by the person who has all the said modifications but in a bigger and therefore better form.

The checklist is as follows:

1. Large, elongated chin spoiler / air dam up front.

2. Some sorta of widebody kit, preferably home made. Can consist of wheel well extentions and sill extentions as pictures, or in some sorta of blocky cardboard-esque bodykit.

3. Large an inappropriate rear spoiler. Can be either of the airfoil variety or ramp type. This modification allows for anything actually, as long as it is attached to the trunk and tall. Large sharks fins for example, or possibly a fish tail or even just a large upright box, would also apply here and be appropriate.

4. Headlamp covers, preferable covering only one lamp.

5. Intercooler mounted externally.

6. Miscellaneous stars, whether in vinyl or rendered in shapes in the bodykit itself.

7. Crooked headlights or taillights. Ultimately, one of the crooked headlights should have a cover (see 4).

8. Extended exhaust pipes. To include two items in one - bend the pipe into the shape of a star.

9. Hood extentions (part A): Hood scoops and/or vertical triangular pieces for optimal airflow.

10. Hood extentions (part B): Extending the hood and/or fenders forward.

11. Gaudy paint. Optimally two tone, with stars and stripes, and of two clashing colours.