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From Merriam-Webster's dictionary:

Stance noun - a way of standing or being placed :  posture

Now that I have your attention, let me start off by saying that everyone that "hates stanced cars" must hate every single car that came out since the Ford Model T. Everything has a "stance" or posture. A buddy of mine said it best:



I went on to elaborate by saying that literally every vehicle out there has some sort of "stance". Lifted trucks, drift pigs, race prepped vehicles, stock vehicles, etc. Frankly, I'm absolutely tired of hearing or seeing someone's hatred towards "stanced" cars. Last I checked, that word doesn't exist nor is it a verb.

Here are some examples of vehicular stance:
FWD drag race stance
(http://image.hondatuningmagazine.com/f/features/htup_1104_1992_honda_civic_cx/32171668+w620/htup_1104_02_o+1992_honda_civic_cx+callos_front_end.jpg)
RWD drag race stance
(http://www.myrideisme.com/Blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/1964-Pontiac-GTO-Drag-Racing.jpg)
Rice stance
(http://media.urbandictionary.com/image/large/ricer-17803.jpg)
Stock supercar stance
(http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2011/03/koenigsegg-agera-r-geneva.jpg)
Aggressive wheel and tire fitment stance
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qNv5MrwJ5Og/SqcIK4QHNDI/AAAAAAAAADM/w2AMe1Ouyq4/s400/mcoupedumped-1.jpg)
Drift stance
(http://cdn.speedhunters.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/Car_Tour_1_Drift_Nissan_S14_3.jpg)
Purpose built air bag stance (this gets driven HARD on the track with over 550hp on tap)
(http://cdn.stanceworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/airlift-bagged-subaru-title.jpg)

Hope that clears things up and you stop using a noun as a verb.

Like.

Me too.. I was never 100% sure what it meant, for that reason I didn't talk about it. Thanks for laying it out :)

Lmfao.

Stance, in the car scene, is when you have enough rear camber so that the sidewall of the tire sits as flush as possible with the fender/quarter panel. The car is sitting in a specific way, not just any normal way of standing.

I wish there was another word to name it. I understand what you mean but it is what it is

No. See the description again and take a look at the z4m. Stop being so damn ignorant.

While every car technically has a stance, stanced seems to by synonymous with hellaflush even if it's a less extreme example.  I believe this is a more accurate definition of a stanced car when taken in the correct context.


Maybe a more extreme definition leaning more towards herrafrush.

While the above definition is correct, it's yet another example of how the English language is butchered to ever living shit. The one style that originated in Japan that Jer posted in the car whores thread is an example of "demon camber" and that is just plain ridiculous. There was a video I saw a little while back of several examples of these demon cambered vehicles (generally the large bodied Japanese vehicles) leaving a meet and all of them were less than 1/4" off the ground. It was hilarious how they all rolled out of this lot at an extreme angle and scraped their undercarriage the entire way as well as on the crown of the street.

Yup.  Demon camber is the extreme version of hellaflush.  I'm not a fan of any of these styles.  There's a fine line between proper fitment and looking like an asshole.  When you can't drive your car on normal roads, you have become that asshole.

Completely agree with you there Tim.

:hmm:

^I get it. Lol

Unfortunately, stanced cars fall under that asshole category.  Most people that say their car is stanced, is usually a degree less than hellaflush.  Still non-functional, but not as bad with the hellaflush poke and stretch bullshit. 

If anything, I prefer hellafunctional with proper fitment.

It's not being "ignorant" because I'm far from it.
That's what stanced is in the car scene, deal with it and move on, old man lol.

Tell me how your definition above equates to the definition below.

Stop trying to pick a fight Jonathan.

How am I trying to pick a fight? He's wrong. That simple.

You've been pretty argumentative with Ariel actually.

I'm like that with everyone. He does like to provoke it more than most.

I'm not sure anything is being provoked you guys have differing opinions on the definition of a fad. You could argue for days about this shit. What's a true hot rod, what's rice etc... Lets drop the bull shit and move on. We are all here because we enjoy the same scene. Lets continue to enjoy it and not get marred down with stupid shit.

You know it's bad when Mike is the voice of reason.     :tongue:

Jonathan, I still love you.

I'm assuming full homo since you didn't say, "no homo" at the end.

What's wrong with just plain old brotherly love?  I like the Z4M stance.

^