[evolutionmovement]

I've found "tuners" to consistently be the most closed-minded and thick-headed of car enthusiasts and I guess with their prime motivation, it's little surprise. Too bad, as the hot-rodding movement started with far more open-minded people willing to try anything they thought would work, much of it aerodynamically related. Guess the current closed-mindedness also explains the stagnation. Any moron with more money than sense can make an engine more powerful (or even more likely, pay someone else to do it) using well established formulas with slight alterations, but the creativity and actual problem solving skills required to forge your own path is beyond the reach of many. Perhaps that's why they seem personally offended by new ideas, especially ones not so base as simply more power in an inadequate platform—they actually realize on some level just how pointless their pursuits are and how common their results. All tuner articles read like laundry lists, blah, blah, 4-piston calipers, blah, blah, turbo, blah, blah, intercooler... I swear the articles are just forms with fill-in-the-blanks.

I think it looks interesting, but that it works is what counts.