While, I can understand that many people are getting sick of all the negative, and critical opinions, that doesn’t mean that the person criticizing is doing it without reason. More often than not, the criticism are often based on very valid perspectives.

I’ve criticized a lot of cars up here, and more often than not, I hate a build, rather than love it. But, I am always very consistent in my criticism, and it’s not fake. Because, the cars that I love represent my ideal vehicle, and unfortunately, those vehicles are not a dime a dozen. Those vehicles go above and beyond, precisely because they set a bar, that is higher than the rest. And, fortunately, some people do meet, or exceed those expectations. And, rare as it may be, I never fail to congratulate someone who has built something truly exceptional.

The problem, IMHO, is that we seem to believe that this honor can be applied liberally. I’m sensing that there is some degree of entitlement from ‘the car community’ just because an enthusiast bought a supercar and decked it out with custom livery and equipment.

To me, there is zero redeeming qualities in a car build that focuses on looking like a tacky theme park ride. But, to each his own; and, different strokes for different folks. But, please, don’t ask me to pretend I like it. That’s just too much to ask for.

I’m building a couple of cars at the moment myself, and they’re all just sort of things I wanted to do. One of them’s essentially a restoration, although the car isn’t really old enough to call it that- putting the vehicle mostly back to stock form. One’s a track car that I’m building purely to have fun driving. And one is just a car I have wanted to build since I was a kid. I didn’t give a damn about what the rest of the car scene thought when I was twelve, and I still don’t now. I’m building that car for one person and one person only- me. What others think… Well, honestly I don’t even really care if everyone’s completely indifferent. It’s easy to say “I don’t care if you hate it” because if someone hates it they’ll still remember it, you know? To hate something you still have to care, to a degree.