77i9

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creative - One who displays productive originality
originality being the key word

GTE4Life

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I personally think that the original GS in this thread is kind of unique, i do hat the camber but that could be corrected for a pretty clean car... yes t has 6 exhaust tips but at least they are nicely and tastefully done, they actually look very well made and i think are not too tacky (unlike the orange GS on page 2 which i think is nasty, it has one of the worst exhausts i have ever seen lol) .

Have you seen the corvette exhausts with the four tips all right next to each other, sure it is not six total tips but it is even more tips jammed together than the black GS.

I am all for off-the-wall originality as long as it is well exicuted

BCHDAZ

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anyone think they can pull this one off?



here's another of the orange car.... change of angle and light makes a huge difference.

Sonic_RC

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LOL Thanks but no thanks. That's valuable time I can spend surfing ****

mk2tmr2

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Well played.

The close up of the exhaust on the orange car is actually really attractive. So well made and such high attention to detail. On a micro level it's a work of art. I'm afraid, however, on a macro level as a part of a larger car it's just a pill I can't bear to swallow.

Sonic_RC

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I remember actually seeing that orange Aristo last year at Tokyo Auto Salon. It didn't really do much for me but creative.




How's this for creativity. The pictures really don;t do this car justice. It it one of the craziest builds I've ever seen. You wouldn;t even believe the base platform they used for this car.

LuxuryGS3

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Hey hey.. This forum is for cars, not transformers, LOL. Couldn't resist.

Sonic_RC

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JZZ30TT

G50 Q45 of course

EDIT: Damn I didn't realize they mentioned it in the video... ah well.

99 GS3

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There we go, now this thread ****ing getting somewhere.

JZZ30TT

Your disposition is a bit refreshing to be honest. Although I think a little too focused on the word creative and it's definition, it's nice to seem more people on this forum who are not ok with the general complacency CL is known for.

Complacency just breeds more complacency. Thus my statement earlier about TTE lips and coilovers. TTE lips were super popular back in '05-'06 but it seems the US community (mostly CL) hasn't been able to move on.. largely in part to threads like this, and people being afraid to get criticized I would assume. Then again, no matter what half assed disaster is see posted on here it is ALWAYS followed with 3 pages of people saying how it "looks good". Too afraid to hurt someones feelings by not liking their particular style.

So you have a group of people too afraid to try something different, who are also too afraid to hurt someones feelings and be honest = TTE lips and Coilovers

EDIT: Just so that post isn't taken the wrong way, it clearly doesn't apply to everyone, there are some extremely nice builds on CL, just few and far between.

TTurboPimp

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That orange GS is bad *** minus the exhaust.

JZZ, the bottom line is people have different tastes, period. To generalize people with TTE lips and coilovers as afraid to be different is rediculous. Perhaps those people actually love their understated clean lined GS'. Everyone has different styles in cars, clothes, girls, etc, etc....

DaveGS4

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You are confusing complacency with diversity. There are tens of thousands more members on Club Lexus with a 2GS than in any other community. That means a whole lot more variety, invariably bringing along with it folks with very different tastes than yours. You want a smaller focused group with style that mirrors yours, there are plenty of niche communities to cater to your taste where you can flame the new guys for not liking their style. Here we've got a little bit of everything.

Because someone does something different than your style doesn't mean they are complacent. You aren't going to get ten thousand 2GS owning members that want to turn their GS into a nearly undriveable negative camber show car. We've got folks that just want to get to work. We've got members like TTurboPimp that have sunk huge sums into their GS simply for the sake of performance. Others want to build a VIP car of some flavor. Many like me transition across several styles over the many years of ownership of their GS (including a TTE lip and coilovers ).

It's all good and ANY enthusiasm somebody's got to take interest in their Lexus and improve it or fix it themselves is what we're here for. The desire to call out another member's ride they are building to meet their own personal goals as a complacent 'half assed disaster' because they really like a TTE lip and coilovers, or going off on a rant about somebody complimenting another member on their car doesn't make sense to me. Honest constructive criticism is absolutely fine and encouraged, just do it without the rude flames. Just respect that not everyone will want the same thing you do and their goals or budget may be very different.

As this thread went downhill after my last post I'll chip in again:

JZZ30TT

I never said they were afraid to be different, but you're missing the point completely and getting offended.

My last post was about the general community attitude here, not individuals in particular.

Also, by "Clean Lined" I'm assuming you meant "Stock Lined" which is fine and it certainly has it's place. If that's what you like that's cool but isn't really what this thread is about.

JZZ30TT

I certainly didn't call anyone out, in fact the OP is the only one who did that...

I never said cars with tte lips were a half assed disaster either, so I'm not sure why you are interpreting what I said as something it isn't.

You can feel my post was a personal attack, but it wasn't. It was simply an observation. You may or may not agree with it (I guess that depends if you have a tte lip or not.. lol). I don't have anything against that lip, I simply used that as one example of many.



This thread didn't go down hill the conversation just got more personal, it's still a conversation and still on topic.