Car clubs
I've been a member of several car clubs over the years and it's always amusing.

Essentially you'll normally have an online forum, much like this one, where people go on and on about the mods etc they've made to their cars and how it's got 200bhp and their metro cuts up porsches etc etc.

Then sooner or later someone arranges a rolling road day to get cars checked and adjusted etc. Always there is some smug git with his "200bhp cavalier turbo etc" who has the smile wiped from his face when an unimpressed spanner monkey takes it off the rollers having measured a totally standard 120bhp etc.

Yup astoundingly a bodykit and alloy wheels don't make your car go faster.
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 12:52, 4 replies)

Aha.....but what about a big exhaust?
Surely that must do the trick?
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 29 Nov 2007, 15:19, closed)

Is that really a case of *them* lying?

Because, let's face it, if you've spent any time reading some of the more fanciful claims in the adverts in the Car Tuning press, it's easy to see how the less mechanically-minded could be taken in.

Claims of ridiculous BHP without qualifying it by quoting the revs it was measured at, for example. "Spot" readings taken at the right time by an unscrupulous Dyno operator magically adding 10 BHP....

So, more a case of being taken in by certain tuning firms.
( Stevedix http://www.stevedix.de/blog, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 15:45, closed)

No
but painting it red does!
(Emily Bruce-Dickinson http://jovialfellow.blogspot.com/, Fri 30 Nov 2007, 10:15, closed)

Type R badges also work
especially if the car isn't even a honda.
( rawr isn't really here., Sat 1 Dec 2007, 4:10, closed)