When Vehicles Go Bad: Ten Mods Gone Horribly Wrong

July 16, 2018

Do you remember learning to ride a bike? You probably fell a lot, I know I did. Every joyful moment of forward momentum under your own power was marred with at least one session of scraped knees and bloodied elbows. It’s a harsh lesson when you’re young, but an important one: skills take time, and often pain, to gain. Modifying a car is the same. For every amazing project we cover, there are countless ones that go horrendously sideways, sometimes literally. Whether that’s due to a lack of experience on the builder’s part, shoddy craftsmanship, poor choice of car or parts, zero taste, or any number of other reasons, the result is the same. A lot of money spent, with bugger all to show for it save for some ugly piece of trash. In this article, we’re going to look at ten car mods that have either been done badly or should never have been done at all.

A Jaguar On Stilts

Imagine being crazy enough to think that this was a good idea. Imagine waking up one morning, viewing the world through a kaleidoscope and thinking “what the world really needs is a Jaguar with huge ground clearance.” If it wasn’t brought about by a delusion, what Jaguar — a venerable company with a history of creating incredible cars — did to earn this person’s ire is unknown. Maybe a Jaguar ate their father when they were trekking through the jungle or something. This automotive atrocity was spotted by CarGurus writer TGriffith, and how it didn’t cause them to curl up in a tearful ball on the floor, I’ll never know. There’s a special place reserved in hell for whoever thought that jacking a Jaguar up by six feet and refusing to take good care of the body was a sound idea.

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