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Hey everyone, i'm curious to hear your thoughts on wether my car looks better with the GTR wing or better with out it?

P.S. It will be lowered in the future! Sorry about the picture set up as I don't know how to resize or get the picture directly displayed on the post side by side

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I've been told that they look to much like a sedan with the wing off! I actually took it off for a while and then it went nuts and no one had a wing, so to be different, I thought i'd put the wing back on. My only problem with the wing is the M-spec front bar because the wing gives a performance car aura but the entire front end is soft, round and not menencing at all!

Cheers for the responses, keep them coming >_<

Edited by ellie

Looking at the pics again, I think if i have the center intake of the front bar extended up for the intercooler and maybe extend the lower edge down a couple of cm's all the way around the bar it might balance out the more aggressive look of the rear spoiler. What do you guys think?

I know it comes down to my personal taste but i known you guys see hundreds of skylines modded in different ways and it's always good to see things from a different perspective >_<

No wing, its not a GTR

I took my wing off my GTR.

Makes it look more sleak IMO......

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Note, the car has since been dumped, had the GTR badge put on and had the stock rims replaced.

That pic was fresh out of the panel shop.

So yeah, WING OFF i say...... :P:D

I think at its current height the wing looks ok but when you lower your car and you get a more aggressive squat to it, the rear end almosts appears lower and fatter. (an optical illusion if you will)

Cheers for your inputs :P

Edited by ellie

Your photo is "case and point" of something else i was going to say = I think the wing off look really promotes that low fat drifter appeal which to set it off nicely, you really need a great set of deep dishes like yours which look sweet. Where as I have forged alloy, super light weight (sumwhat pretty) white enkei NTO3 racing rims. A performance orrientated rim but also look pretty which causes one of those optical illusions I was talking about causing the car car to look slimmer than if i had dishies.

The point to the ramble is at the moment the wing acsentuates the look and it will have to be reassessed when lowered :O

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