Spoilers and body kits

I am sure you have seen cars fitted with spoilers and body kits. Even if they are not sports cars. After all, even your normal family sedan can be fitted with them to try and give it a sporty look. Well, while some people like cars to look sporty, my own take is that not all cars can be made to look sporty.

A family sedan, the smaller ones that is, can be made to look sporty with these accessories. They are usually small and sleek enough already, so adding a spoiler and body kit can give that additional sleek, lean look to it. So all those Toyota Vios and Mitsubishi Lancers can look much more sporty with the addition of accessories.

A huge MPV such as the Toyota Alphard, when fitted with a spoiler and body kit, becomes a fierce-looking road machine. The huge MPV is already a huge monster by itself, and adding accessories only add to make it look fiercer.

A small MPV, like the Toyota Wish, is a totally different story. It is not sleek like the small sedans. It is not huge like the bigger MPVs. It is really neither here nor there. Unlike a small sedan, which looks even more sporty with accessories, or a huge MPV, which looks even more fierce with accessories, a small MPV can neither achieve a sporty look, nor a fierce look, with the addition of a spoiler and body kit. The end result is a car that tries to be what it cannot be.

So before adding accessories to your car, think again. What is the look you are trying to achieve, and is your car able to achieve that in the first place?