Japan is home to numerous car and transport inventions and advancements. Japanese car manufacturers are considered to be one of the most advanced and successful nowadays, so people of this country seem to be having a great passion towards cars.
It can be clearly seen by the number of thematic car meets and design trends, which have influenced Japanese tuning style as a whole. Currently experts distinguish several popular car cultures and modification styles, which originated from Japan: VIP style, Bosozoku & Onikyan or Demon Camber.
The VIP style is said to have originated from design preferences of Yakuza gang members. These outlaws had a thing for luxury cars and spend a good deal of time and money improving their specs. The luxury cars & business like styling were chosen to blend with other cars and avoid detection by rival gangs and more importantly, the police.
Bosozoku car & moto culture is all about teen rebellion. Teenagers, inspired by popular comic shows and TV animations, try to build not only fast cars but style them, as if a comic book hero would drive it.
Onikyan or Demon Camber become a just a visual design style, after such modification was abandoned by the drifters.
Many people thought that cars with negative camber would handle better around the track but such modification had more disadvantages than advantages. So some people added such feature only as a visual modification.
This is just a brief review of popular car cultures in Japan. If you would like to know what auto tuning looks like in other countries, please check out this video presentation: [ Ссылка ]
We have briefly reviewed such styles as hot rod, sleeper, drag racer and some other cultures.
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