Which Brand is "Doing Work" In The Stance Scene?

[vbrad26]

if you ain't rubbin' you ain't dubbin...

[PavelK313]

Stretch, slam, poke, is purely European thing. VW's are the cheapest euro cars you can buy in US and that is the reason why VW's are leading brand in this department.

I think I need level 10 flame resistant suit! lol

[Split]

agreed.

same here

[geminidubber]

I think Euro guys (as a whole) were doing what's "in" now a long time ago (stretch, slam,poke, etc) Voted "other"

agreed.

[NELSON09]

I think Euro guys (as a whole) were doing what's "in" now a long time ago (stretch, slam,poke, etc) Voted "other"

[I.CON]

The Euro guys been doing it since the 80's. Japan caught on shortly after.

There are different guidelines for each scene. Poke might be considered cool in the VW crowd but gets frowed upon by the hardcore VIP guys. Now a days, perfectly flush fitment (where the lip of the wheel rests on the edge of the fender when parked) is not popular in the Japanese scene. Thats more of a drift "hella flush" thing. Slightly tucking is whats popular in the Japanese VIP scene because you can drive at low heights that way

[Dangler]

2004 ? ..

sorry i guess 6 years ago isn't long enough for you.....in the car world alot changes in 1 year let alone 6.

and that black mk3 has been around for at least since '91 (last year they were made in Europe, was 1998) so that car could be anywhere from 12 to 19 years old.


point is, that this style has been a part of VW's for a while. that's all cheif

[Fusion]

Anyone remember these?

[punkhop83]

i vote euro!
euro's pushed the limits...

[tivs31]

My inspiration was always VW based, and from what I've seen the start of it all began with VW's...

I remember back in 2000 when I started, there were tons of people talking about going "low" and wide.

The whole tire stretch issue stems from a law in the TUV rules, stating that none of the tread of a tire can be outside of the fender of any car. Hence why people started to stretch tires to fit a lower offset wheel to still conform to TUV standards, which are checked annually and at police stops.

It has since been done in drifting and such to give a firmer more consistent sidewall to help drift cars be consistently on the edge and in control.

In looking at Vw's lately, I see a whole lot of low, but honestly not that much wide (in the mark 5>), but in the JDM scene there is a terrific balance, which makes me feel warm and fuzzy all over, so kudos for that .

[Dr.AK]

I gotta say Euros in general.

The euro and japanese have been stancing to some degree for decades, but the euros were always more internationally present. The japanese scene's only really started to swap over internationally in the late 90ies, early 2000s. Back then it was also mostly VIP in terms of stanced cars that could be seen internationally, the other japanese styles have only slowly evolved in the past years, or at least gotten more present.

Euros, especially in Europe, have been doing it since I could think. I have been reading car magazines for as long as I could read, before then I even looked at them for just the pictures. For most of the past 20 years, europe has been stancing, except for the early 2000s, that's when most of europe started to follow the Fast and Furious trends with big ass spoilers and sunk in wheels, it's been getting less and less in the last 5 years though, and I'm glad for that.

In Germany the most obvious and visible scene has always been the Volkswagens, followed by Opel, BMW and lastly Ford.

[WhiteStripes]

I have to give it to the Dubbers as well. It just seems like I always saw VDubs slamming it up before I saw Bimmers. My heart still lies with the Blue and White, but I still love me some proper stance sporting VW's.

Although I have to admit, I've only recently payed attention to the Japanese crowd, so hell, they could have been doing it first indeed.

[Spencer]

What about the rat rod builders from the 50's and such?

[525iT_Feen]

I said VW although there are a shit ton of well fitted JDM and VIP cars running around and have been for years.

VW/Audi mainly because pound for pound there are more of them stanced in the world then any other marque, they started the whole fitment craze, and they're probably going to finish it.

My .02

[slimadi]

In my books i think VW have had the biggest inspiration for many stanced rides of today,as the VW boys say If ain't rubbing or scrubbing you ain't dubbing it right!