mekamitchwill wrote:Hi,
I looked at your earlier post with the pic from the showroom floor (very, very nice). Your Solara came without a spoiler? I've seen only 1 without a spoiler in person and only 2 (including yours) on the internet. What are your thoughts on the spoiler? If you get a chance, please read my post under "2007 Solara spoiler options". By the way, the grill is really nice...think I'd like to get one. Thanks.
Mekamitchwill? Wow! That's quite a name. Welcome to SG. I read your posting on spoilers this morning, but the link you included was incomplete, so I didn't take the time to investigate further. Now, after you replied to my posting on the grille, I went back, cut and pasted the information you had inside the () and figured out what you were referring to.
I may have liked spoilers at one point in my life, but when they became so common, I stopped liking them as much. I think they work on some cars and not so well on others. On the Solara, I think they look better on the Gen1's than on the Gen2's like you and I have. However, the lip spoiler that the 2004 comes with on the sports model SE is about as much of a spoiler as I would want on that style. I am totally pleased with the spoiler-less, molded spoiler-look that my car has. It's already hard enough to see what's behind me when I'm backing now; if I had a real spoiler, it would be even worse.
I understand what you mean about the hatchback look, but that doesn't bother me so much. It only looks that way from certain angles. It doesn't take much movement around the car before you see the stretched-out view from the sides. The car was made that way deliberately, and if you want to effectively re-design that look, it will take a very large wing which would otherwise change the whole look of the rest of the car. I am not a modifyer unless I have a very good reason for it based on my own tastes and needs. But I don't knock anyone who wants to do whatever he or she wants to do with their own cars. I rather like keeping my car as true to itself as possible. At the end of the day, it seems to have more dignity that way.
My 2004 SLE inbred spoiler vs a 2004 SE lip spoiler
Perhaps this is the look you don't care for?
Or this one?
It works for me. Jimmm
by BesI » Thu May 14, 2009 6:56 pm I know old-timers like to live in the past but get with the program! bhaha
BesI wrote:nice lookin grill .. how about the upper girl you getting that one too or you just keeping the stock grill?
