Actually, I disagree.
As far as dumping money on anything for cars, it's all a waste of money if you really want to hear the truth.
I always see "$xxx.xx invested" in car ads. Really?
Cars are not investments...they are liabilities. So whatever you choose to dump the money in, it doesn't really matter unless it's a super rare old school something or other, or a supercar.
To be quite honest, if you are gonna throw $1000 at something to make it faster, you've already spent that much on making it fast...it may as well look good so spend another grand on it.
When I first got my car...I was all about performance; about a year later, I got laid off from my job. I was in school for 3 years driving on fumes half the time...I would take it to L&R and ask Lowell to hook me up with a good deal just to keep it alive. Afterwards, I was tired of fucking around with waiting on the side of the road for flatbeds and being late for work. Face it, when you performance mod a car, you better have another one for back up because wear and tear goes way up...as does the tendency for other shit to go wrong with it.
Over the years, I bought cosmetics for it here and there to make look newer and more modern.
My full intentions are still to one day turn it into a 600+hp monster...but until that day, I'll do everything else to it but that. It's not gonna be something that happens over night either. It'll be parked in my garage for years...with me putting a couple grand to it every year or so. And one day when I'm old, it'll be finished.
Basically what I'm saying is that just because someone puts a kit and spoiler on a car, doesn't mean he should be shot down for that because no one else thinks it looks cool. Maybe he will back it with power, maybe he won't. Either way, you shouldn't really criticize unless you know that person's situation.
Sorry for thread jackin'