VIP Style refers to the modification of Japanese luxury automobiles to make them lower and wider stance seen with aggressive wide wheels, suspension and body kits. VIP style is typically large, expensive, rear-wheel drive sedans, though automotive enthusiasts use other cars like minivans and KEI car. Once associated with the yakuza, VIP Style modifications now are a subset of automotive modification.
HISTORY
VIP Style modifications and history is often associated with the Yakuza. By using JDM cars with modifications associated with the creation of limousines, gangsters could avoid detection by the police and rival gangs.
Both Osaka street racers and Kanto area Bōsōzoku (motorcycle and moped gangs in Japan) adopted the style in many ways. Osaka street racers, after suffering various police crackdown Hanshin Expressway in the early 1990's, turned to sedans after police targeted sport compacts as a way to cruise while remaining incognito. Kanto area bosozoku group took a somewhat different approach, by modifying sedans with cut coils and mufflers and often courageous and strong, known as "Yankee Style". Their style cues are actually taken from the Super Silhouette race cars of the 1970s and 1980s. They also drive recklessly, such as causing traffic jams and avoiding paying tolls. To mimic the yakuza counterparts, they used large black sedans.
CHARACTER
Cars associated with VIP style usually have common characteristics, such as excessive wheel luxury with style. (The design is usually broad faced) with low offsets that sit close to the fender, exhausts that stick out past the rear bumper (although not so much emphasis on this day), full bodykit or lip kit, glossy paint and a lowered ride height. It's not uncommon to see a very negative camber on many VIP style car. Traditional colors of VIP Style cars are usually black, white, grey and silver.
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