What Car Deserves A Tuner Following?

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Readers, I was idly browsing Volvo C70 convertibles connected Facebook Marketplace nan different night, and I had a spot of an epiphany. These cars stock their underpinnings pinch greats for illustration nan Mazdaspeed 3 and nan second-gen Ford Focus RS — moreover down to nan five-cylinder turbo. The large quality pinch nan C70, though, is that it's a convertible. Why is simply a drop-top Focus RS not getting much attraction from nan tuner world? What different cars are suffering successful nan aforesaid way? 

Today, that's nan mobility laid earlier you: What non-tuner car deserves a tuner following? With modern level and motor sharing, nan bits and pieces that dress up our favourite capacity cars extremity up reused successful each sorts of different vehicles. The Cadillac ATS sat connected nan Camaro's platform, nan Honda K-series came successful everything from nan TSX to nan Odyssey — location are tuner cars everyplace for those pinch eyes to see. 

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This level sharing intends that engines aren't nan only bits that tin beryllium swapped for illustration Legos. That Volvo C70 up apical tin fresh MadzaSpeed suspension, astatine slightest up front. Sure, nan backmost whitethorn beryllium revised to carnivore nan weight of nan retracting hardtop, but personification must make immoderate suspension that fits. Someone would, certainly, if nan C70 had nan tuner enthusiasm it truthful richly deserves. 

What car do you deliberation deserves tuner emotion and aftermarket support? Do you deliberation Ford Rangers should get nan Datsun Sunny treatment, aliases K-powered Honda Odysseys should each beryllium boosted wrong an inch of their lives? Leave your picks down successful nan comments, and we'll cod our favorites later successful nan week. Bonus points for thing that shares bits pinch a beloved tuner car, but that's not a necessity — if you cognize of a car that fits nan measure moreover without shared parts, that's adjacent game.