"highlighting the understated beauty of lightly customized automobiles?"

Well played, sirs.

People still read DUB?!

Pentabortion. Tastelessly delicious!

I bet I see at least 39 of those rolling down Gratiot by summer.

I once saw a contrasting *pair* of dubbed out Azteks cruising a Detroit freeway. I honestly couldn't decide what joke to make.

Now I have seen the answer to the question that nobody cared to ask.

And does that Nitro have an afterburner poked out its butt?

Never thought they could make the Sebring more ugly. I was wrong.

I'm no latin scholar, but allow me to quote an SAT prep manual:

"When you see the dub-, you should remember the word doubt"

Some help me understand the appeal of this styling. I've always been baffled -- especially since millions of people love this kind of thing.

I used to work with a guy who was in the "import/export" biz between the US and Japan..
He had 2 H2s... one was lifted with 35" tires, the other was lowered on 26" rims...

I gave him a pass though because he also had an F355 and a modified 240Z that was one of the best sounding cars I have ever heard (triple carbed)...

I pity the fool who can't differentiate between "different" and "better."

@ash78: Zing!

Who greenlights this crap to actually be built?

Besides, if you're not rollin' on 42"s, you are a FAILURE. These cars aren't even half-trying.

@Miscellanea: People who buy DUB can read?

@NICKNICK: Modern society doesn't really differentiate between the two, especially among the noncompetitive classes (often referred to as underprivileged or underrepresented).

Remember, we are all unique snowflakes with every right to express ourselves in every way possible and there is no such thing as objectively bad taste or poor financial decision-making. It's all subjective.

/rant off

What's really sad is the banner. One of the "customs" illustrated is a Jeep Wrangler. The only way to customize a Wrangler is with Mud!

@ash78: You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.

Nothin' says class like Dub
... or is it nothing says class like Donk? I get confused sometimes.

DUB Magazine: Because bored frat boys need something to look at when they aren't buying roofies and drugging high school girls.

and just to prove that DUB isnt doing anything different
heres a picture of a Chrysler 300 Dub was touring around in 2005!!
[www.gluck.net]
Lambo Door Kit? CHECK!
Black Paint? CHECK!
Big Wheels? CHECK!
DUB Sticker? CHECK!
okay. NEXT!!!

@crazygutgut: what is gluck.net? that is really close to my last name...

@FatBraff: Are you saying that this Nitro really BLOWS?

@UDMAN: never thought they can make the entire Chrysler line uglier...but we're all wrong.

Wow, I guess there a lot of people looking for ways to make their cars into total slugs, complete with non-compliant ride and bent suspension components. Let's drop the already sub-par gas mileage on Jeep vehicles to even lower figures.

But the icing on the cake. Your car looks silly and you look like a tool driving it.

@ash78: underrepresented? then who's always rep-re-sent-in?
oh no you di'int!

@bmrfile: Here is one for you... Jeep Wrangler on 30's

There isn't one true playa out there who would be caught dead rolling dirty in a fucking Sebring.

Maybe a white guy. . . .

@ash78: "no such thing as objectively bad taste or poor financial decision-making"

Wrong.

Are you seeing the pictures above?

30"s are for pussies; now 40"..........

[i11.photobucket.com]

@cyclopticgaze: No WAY... You see so-called "playas" driving the dumbest shit around...

How many pimped out 4-door, 4-cyl accords do you see on the road? TONS of them...

@poxpopulus: what happens when you want to turn?

@FatBraff:
it is my last name! now I have to kill you...
are you a Glick? in the 1890s our last name was either Gliick or Glück but written in cursive its hard to tell...

@poxpopulus:
Im a coining a new phrase right now.
Redonkulous...

@FatBraff:

Tuned 240Z = AWESOME

I was going to do more, but im too tired.

@FatBraff: Turnin is fo suckas. Chuck it in da guttah and go buy anothah!

@Dr.Danger: LMAO, Well said.

Just think of it this way, every DUBed out Sebring is another B or G body saved from this treatment. And I'm not saying I like this, but these seem to be well done examples of the trend (inasmuch as giant slabs of chrome can be appealing). Most of the craptacularity is on Chrysler's end.

@poxpopulus: I hope the 40" wheel sets come with a coordinating ladder...

@FatBraff: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

It's like seeing a mistreated dog chained up in someone's yard. Go back and rescue it!

@crazygutgut: Glucker

@JoSCh: HOLLA!

I prefer the flat black trend to the DUBification of these ve-hickles...

It's official, DUB corners the market on UGLY!

@poxpopulus: Every time I see one of these 70's convertibles that look like this, I want to hang their creator by the balls. What the hell.....

@slackinfux: Except none of their cars can actually corner... SNAP!

Outside these walls, people say Bling Bling... but here inside the walls of this AutoShow... We call it Bling Bang...

I ... like big wheels and I cannot lie

I have a frequent house guest who always rents a car from the cheapest place around- usually Fox- and almost always ends up with a Sebring or the Dodge counterpart.

The interior is monumentally cheesy, even by rental car standards, with even the ignition switch having a soft-rubbery feel when turned. The whole car gives off the impression that all Chrysler has done is re-bodied old k-cars from the 80s that they picked up off of Craigslist.

The worst thing about them is the fact that when you lock the door, whether by using the key in the lock, or the button on the fob, the horn blasts at full volume. Is there any way to turn that off short of fully disabling the horn, or leaving the car unlocked?

What a bunch of crap.

that sebring is ugly

How can you call a 30' a dub? Shouldn't it be Trub mag now? I can't remember the last time I saw 20's in their mag.

Paint is cool but the rims are gaudy and ridiculous.

@Dr.Danger:

You've done enough. Many thanks.

That jeep makes me die a little inside every time I look at it... Forever doomed to a life of ugliness, never to see a trail or ounce of mud again...

So sad.

@Citizen Braff: seriously? Glucker? I never heard that except when people were making fun of me...

@RoninianHoon: I'd just simply call it ridiculous.

@LuciferV8:
no the accepted term (as I established a half hour ago, is Re-DONK-ulous

I've run out of vomit, may I borrow some of yours?

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."

Tragically stupid, tragically uncool.