Sleeper or Standout?

[BullittSV6]

What do you prefer or own?

A Sleeper, blending into the rest that every Falcon and WRX driver thinks is just a stock standard Commodore...until they get a shock at the lights when you blast past...

Or a Standout, wanting to impress the crowd, your master piece, seeking all the attention and complements or putting to fear into every man and his dog.

Me, I like the Sleeper look. I'm not aiming for a show stopper or attention, just a car I'm going to enjoy driving with a few goodies to set it apart from the many Impulse SV6's on the road.
I'm talking about a stock headunit with phreddied outputs and new speakers sitting in the door mould hidden from nasty eyes. Stock mags, stock ride height but a decent exhaust and tune.

[eurekamad94]

to me lowered wheels some sort of trick lookin paint and then add a few thousand horsepower :whistle:

[EvoVIIIJDM]

Sleeper - well factory looking with major balls under the hood.

[Philthy]

Clean and neat with a nice drivable package under the bonnet. Nothing way over the top

[VN_Luke]

I totally recently had this dilemma

I decided sleeper with a wild motor - although it should look standard but very well maintained/cared for.. not a total dunger.. I rekcon it's just a lot more practical.

Pros:
- less police attention
- less thief attention
- less "you're a hoon" attention
- getting to see the look on the face of high-end sports car owners when they get cained by a "stock commodore"
- ability to run mismatched wheels & tyres etc, and cover with hubcaps.
- not having to worry about scraping everything on the road
- not worrying about cost of tyres (for those of us with stock 15's )
- not having to massively stress about pricy paint job
- not having to keep the car clean
- being able (in the case of a commodore) to have 400,000 other cars the same model and colour around to blame for that youtube stunt.
- less people bag the car... cause there's no 'personal taste' to pick on - just tame genuine factory lines wheels and colors!
- MUCH less likely to be canaried/epa'd etc once pulled over...
- people seem to have a 'soft spot' for sleepers

Cons:
- people think you have a crap, standard car. lol


for me - it's about how the car drives and feels - an appreciation of all those hand-assembled parts working together to form an awesome driving experience - Personally I don't really care whether people are gawking at me enjoying that experience or not

[minux]

Sleeper for the win.

[TVR-190]

sleeper, with a lil bit of bling (rims)

[azkwazere]

Both... i love a hot looking car... but at the same time i love the idea of a car that looks **** and goes like a mofo...

Its a tuff call really...

aZk.

[BullittSV6]

Both... i love a hot looking car... but at the same time i love the idea of a car that looks **** and goes like a mofo...

Its a tuff call really...

aZk.

That's why I included "A bit of both" for indecisives like your yourself hehe. I know what your saying. I like seeing cars with look at me paint jobs, infact I was going to get all the satin chrome parts and get big mags and I thought nah, we'll keep her "stock"

[excalibur]

Gotta love the sleeper

[Jesterarts]

I recon a fairly stock looking car with just subtle hints that something is up...

Like... all stock but lowered and say... an intercooler...

[Lumps of cheese]

Sleeper for sure.
Think Transformers when they pop Bumblebee's hood for the first time.....

[Jesterarts]

^^^ Haha... loved how both the chick and the dude were basically not at all suprised to see that engine in there... lol

[h0Ld3n`VN]

i totally agree with VN_LUKE on this one

[greenacc]

but at the same time i love the idea of a car that looks **** and goes like a mofo...

aZk.[/QUOTE]

Yes, my thoughts Exactly

[Reaper]

Easy question. Subtle is the key. Nothing says wanker than a car that promises so much with wild body kits and go fast "performance" stickers yet deliver so little on the race track.

Reaper

[Sphinx]

Sleeper look I think. Best I change those plates then hey. haha

[VL_5SPEED]

If a newer car, standout. If a old car, complete stock look but with good paint and overall good condition. Old clean cars are always going to turn more heads then a brand new car what you see about 50 times a day.

[50DWN]

Sleeper lowered on some race wheels and dark tints ftw....

[BLO-4RD]

i would want a sleeper, lowered, rims,then all the money spent under the hood, and blo off every1 down the straight, in what looks like a bog standard car.

[nicko]

for a daily i think a bit of both. Some nice rims nothing massive though and lowered and some nice performance mods to boot. No stupid plates like i h8 fords etc etc. just stock plates stock kit and a not so stock motor

[VSIIISU]

A bit of both. I don't like a standout car with standard interior, makes me think of `rice' . Then again, sleeper is a bit restrictive for the options I want on me ute. I guess at the end of the day its functional and it goes, that's all I care.

[blackpearl]

can i go one of each? i have a show and no balls but its very fun when ppl pull up and try to race , but not interested and now going to start a sleeper well try to make a 10sec sleeper and when i succeed the only thing that will stand out will be the plates 10SEC

[Full Spectrum]

I'm a bit of both. More subdued in looks nothing to overboard clean and nice. Engine can go overboard.

[vkwalks39]

SLEEPER for me. It give less attention from the Locals (Cops)...