Personally I love the Rocket Bunny body kits, even the exposed bolts, giant wings and extreme width. But I know and understand this is a turn off for many but I like the rawness of it.
As long as it’s not a turn off for you is all that matters. I hate the scene in the US because it’s so demanding from everyone. We need to learn from japan and accept everyones build. Rocket Bunny kits are RAW.
Any rocket bunny kit done right will always look good an people who are usually not into that style will still like it.. i got a pandem kit on my lexus rc an everyone whos seen it loves it i never got any hate irl for my car just love even my stepdad whos more into mustangs loves it an he usally hates imports lol... it just has to be done right wide never dies
@@wercorteztv3603 accepting shitty "builds" is why the car scene is so trash. A bottomed out 350z p.o.s. on Ebay coilovers and a chopped off exhaust isn't a build, that's a disgrace
Agreed, love aggressive style kits and wings as a kid and recently have grown to also love the nice sleek and fitting mods, i now really love both styles if im honest!
This is kind of sad . I didn't think this could happen To Rocket Bunny. You said that they are still making kits and Im happy for that hope they continue. Im sure people will come back around. Now I'm thinking of I should buy a real front lip or not most of those companies are either closed or discontinued the product for my car. I do get a kick out of buying my parts directly from the manufacturer eg hasport.
I personally dont see anything wrong with buying fake parts if they arent being produced anymore, might be a little worse than the original but not the end of the world lmao
@@cian___ in the classic world we do a lot of repop stuff. Try finding a real set of torque flights nowadays. I did buy a set off an og lowrider that was in his 70s or 80s and i can honestly say i have no idea how i got so lucky.
@@cian___ kind of relating this to shoes. with the resale of the original product being 5-20 times more than the original value. i buy reps because i just want to use that said shoe. same with discontinued car parts, i dont see anything wrong with it if you cant get the original. more or so it looks almost similar to the original too but doesnt give u the same satisfaction as u would buying it from the original manufactuerer
@@zeru4600 why do you buy rep shoes? I always hear about them, how there are good and bad quality reps and so forth. I've just never known where to the good ones, so I've never pulled the trigger on any.
I think rocketbunny was a lot cooler in v1 frs/s13 phase. Back then most of the cars produced with the kits were really good quality builds from Japan. I think once it crossed over into the US, it just got bad. Nowadays I enjoy seeing the renders, and the recent releases for old muscle cars like the Camaro are cool. Edit: FRS V1 is my favorite and I will always enjoy seeing a well built V1 frs,brz,86 anyday.
i think rocketbunny peaked with the boss s14. take it with a grain of salt as i'm personally biased to my favorite RB kit, but i think the boss s14 proved that rocketbunny had the clout to take beloved sports cars and completely flip the script on it aesthetically. i'll acknowledge at the fact that it's still polarizing to this day but i think my other favorites would have to go to the cayman and GR yaris
"once it crossed over into the US, it just got bad" ... that's literally because most people were buying knock of reps and those affordable half baked messes spread everywhere. So many fenders murdered on horrible installs. Craigslist and FB Marketplace is full of wannabe Rocket Bunny abortions.
I kinda feel the opposite, even the expensive stuff looks cheap. I honestly couldn't tell an authentic Scion from one with the ebay kit, and if installed incompetently it all looks like shit. and let's be real you got tired of the look real soon. Especially if you did it to your own car (and especially if you did it for the gram.) I always wonder where the cars go when they aren't online.
Your comment on how RB started with the people's car made me think that RB's departure from the everyman car to collector or high end cars could have negatively affected the company. It blows my mind that there's a kit for the Nissan Titan truck but not a single version of the 10th gen Civic.
It makes sense plus a lot of purist really hate the look of the exposed rivets. But having seen real pandem kits before on well executed builds irl its so hard for me to hate them and I feel like their kits are as good as it gets for letting the hands of one's work be seen in a build it always leaves a nice impression on me.
Not to mention they fit really well. If your building a race car and not a show car pandem/rocket bunny kits are great for just getting your car wider if you aren’t too particular about looks.
tuff for those so called "purists", I have had a passions for aviation and automotive since I was 4, seeing exposed rivets on a car makes my cock hard.
In a short summery: oversaturation, non-stop copy/paste format and overall degradation of quality control via non-professional fabricators is what killed interest and public appeal in Pandem's style. (Quick edit, Pandem is just Rocket Bunny US. Supposedly its for copyright reasoning, most people don't know that Ig)
This Is What Happeneds When We Stop Bulling... People Are Rolling Around With Knockoff Claiming Real Deal....And America Hardly Makes Anything Most Likely It With Say Made In China....China Doesn't Have Copy Write Laws
It just became part of the endless hype train for influencer types I feel. The kind of people who create trends because they need content don't nurture said trends, they move on while suckers hold the bag.
@@derb_ The issue isn't creating or being apart of trends, the issue is people thinking those trends are all that matter. Times change, naturally people look for ways to stand out from the crowd, but if everybody is doing the same thing then what exactly is the point. Worse, a decent sum of people in the car community (at least newbies) seem to forget that there was likely a point to those specific designs: Wide body kits, high profile rims, stance tuning...all to benefit the proformance in a certain way: They weren't just for looks. Today people dropping big bands on mods for attention rather than purpose. If dude is decent, they'd drop 5-15k on a body kit, nice wheels, maybe even go the extra mile to talk to a tuner about getting more power under the hood but in most cases, its all cheap parts, wannabe racers and no experience. Gilded exterior and clapped interior.
All I can really say is that if your into cars and going fast, I suggest working from the inside out: Yes, having something that grabs attention is nice, but a stock looking sleeper will give you a better reputation than a riced out beater. Also, another reason why the car community catches such a bad rap is all those clowns doing stupid sh*t at meetups: too many inexperienced show-offs, no quality control on who can get in and who can't. Only two ways of finding a meet back then was by invite only or by chance, and if you acted an a*s, you weren't invited back...i.e. being reckless, talking about stuff you knew nothing about or snitching on yourself and your buddies by telling randoms, or these days, streaming yourself like a brainlet. Sorry to tangent off like that but I just wanted to share my opinion on the current state of the car scene.
I think poor kids with no sense of quality style just ruin everything in the car scene. Like literally everything. They buy all the rare cars. Zip tie everything wrap everything around trees and curbs. Just total cancer
Personally, im not a fan of rocket bunny styled builds. This is not to say they're not good looking. The mere prospect of hacking a car then screwing on flares is a tad too crude and irreversible for my taste. I do agree with the replica ordeal, but i suspect some of the more seasoned enthusiasts will echo my sentiments.
I agree, all the street kits that are taking the market and best quality are a the full remplacement fenders and you can keep the stock ones and reverse to stock body in short time
Bolt on fenders are not the issue. If talking about an actual racecar I see these as(even repos) useful mods. Talking as a style choice, this is shit ricer styling plain and simple. I find dome flared out fender hilarious but the first time I saw a rocker bunny kit, I gagged. Cutting the stock rear fenders does make me question my sanity but look at FEED engineering. At least their original Fd3s wide looked good AND was functional. These kits(rocket bunny) ARE KNOCKOFFS OF RWB, just bad ones
Awesome mini-documentary that you've got. I still remember my Dad and I finding early coverage of Rocket Bunny in 2013 on Speedhunters, and being amazed by it as a kid. The reception and attitude for it definitely changed in the past years, and it's interesting to listen to your take on it!! Keep on making contemporary tuning-culture videos like this, I love it!
the thing about modifying a car in this way is that it attracts a much younger demographic usually, and by default a younger person probably has a lot less money to spend, thus rep kits getting the sales. another thing too is the wait on an authentic kit can be a long time, on top of very expensive. gen Z and millenials have a hard time waiting for anything. most of the rep kits were put on the car very poorly as well so its probably a good thing they didn't waste an authentic kit. i think eventually everyone got tired of the bolted on "widebody" look, as it took off pretty fast and seemed like everyone was doing it
The convenience of modern society makes it hard to not feel like everything is at your fingertips, this has nothing to do with genz or whatever bullshit you believe, most old people I see waiting for a pizza at the store are always so desperate for their pizza to finish.
Stance is also on the way out in the scene. I'm seeing fewer new kits with the riveted fenders and "boxiness" of RB kits. If fewer people want the look, the kits will be bought less.
I think what started the downfall of stance was that clown who set his own rx8 on fire and blamed it on a "hater" that never existed I won't mention his name because I don't want to give that clown any attention
Accurate. The rocket bunny frs was so hot for about a year then it got to the point that there were 3 in my local scene after a year. The kits got so common we used to clown on them
@@cian___ there are still people out there who are doing hood rocket bunny style builds, its just unfortunate that most people that go for this style half ass it, plus most of them all look the same.
Reps have always killed or slowed brand names. This is probably before you got into this, but Veilside, Bomex, Mint Blue and a few other JDM brands opened shop in LA in 2000/01. The amount of knock offs offered after about a year made a lot of those original companies close up (Bomex is still around). Almost all the knock off brands weren't as good quality and fitment, but people also didn't want to pay the high price. I got an original Feel's kit for my EK, but there were knock offs a few months later. I paid a high price for an original and it showed.. but knock off prices... you can't beat.
@@xr.spedtech That's a different question that what put out. But nowadays, people have the resources to 3d print, 3d scan... I mean fabrication availability on IG is everywhere, 23yrs ago, it wasn't as plentiful. Then we start to get into the quality and quality assurance of products. It is what it is.
one thing i gotta say is i LOVE the samurai champloo background music! the vid itself was highly informative and well put together but the music taste is def a cherry on top. Keep up the great content!!
very cool video you should consider doing one on wheels from the 90s-00s. I've never seen a video like it and I feel like your style of video would shine some well deserved light on some really well designed and styled wheels. So many different wheels. so many different brands, and such a cool era in JDM history!
@1:03 that's my car when I purchased it from the previous owner! I watched this the first time around and didn't even spot it, a friend just let me know! Agree on the original body styles look so much better, sadly Rocket Bunnys problem was copy kits.
I love the Najubes, Samurai shamploo in the background. It was a great informational video and the editing too. You deserve more credit and subs.ñ man so for now you got a New sub 👍🏻
This reminds me of what happened to the Meyers Manx. Replica buggy’s that did what Meyers did for cheaper, without sacrificing too much in style and functionality.
We see a lot of people in our comments saying they straight up dislike (sometimes hate) the styling of rocket bunny, so it is hard for us to believe replica parts are solely responsible for killing off the RB brand. Just our opinion, This video is super well structured though keep going! 🙌
Yeap. Reps didn't kill Rocket Bunny, its them becoming self generic and being the icon of the bolt on over fender trend, which went out of style, that killed Rocket Bunny.
I'd say those comments are nonsense because a quick scan through Craigslist, FB Marketplace, Offer-Up, etc. yields enough project cars with half assed Rocket Bunny style installs to tell me it's actually quite popular.
I'm not a fan of the RB kits, myself. I don't hate them, though at one point I'd certainly say that I did. I just don't find the look at all appealing.
I mean that's just USA car fans. Our car scene is so emotionally stunted that's its all ego and very little about community or even about car builds anymore
You earned a sub just by your choice of BGM alone. Keep it up. When The Rocket Bunny rps 13 silvia notchback first came out, I've always it's just a more obnoxious rendition of Instant Gentlemen's kit. Never even thought of this brand being able to take off globally compared to it's contemporaries of the era.
Still have my V1 Rocket bunny fenders (Living in Japan, I sent them back to Australia and stuck them in storage), I'll put them on eventually. They take me back to my childhood, with the factory 1977 Holden Torana SS Hatchback bodykit. Watching Bathurst in the 70's with Peter Brock driving the A9X version and even owning a stock one in the 90's, as soon as I saw the 86 kit it was must buy...
fantastic video! i love the comparison between rocketbunny kits and rwb kits. As well, it really goes to show that not only is it worth it to get the right stuff, that purchasing decision has farther reaching implications than just getting a good part.
easy, expensive and not everyone can have it = coolness factor and interest is always up. Cheap and easily available = meh factor and no one cares since anyone can have it now and instead of 1-2 per show it's literally every kid with a 2k credit card, line, etc and suddenly 20+ per show show up and instantly kills the interesting factor.
Well done on this video. We started yt around the same time and were roughly in the same sub counts until recent lol. I've been here since the North America Levin video, I am both jealous and impressed
I don't like this over the top bodykits because they don't fit my vision as an engineer, they can even be cool in pictures, but in reality it's something that, unless you have a full racing car, ruins the driveability, because either you're going to use giant spacers or you're going to use giant tires, either way you are destroying the car's handling without reengineering the suspension. That's why most of these cars are trailer queens, which go against my belief.
Back when I was building a 240sx I wanted to get a RB kit as it was JUST released. Several months later it was so oversatured around and everyone it seemed "had one" I had to drop that idea eventually especially as replicas started getting produced originally for autosport to replaced expensive parts that were trashed on regularly basis. Later it found itself on the market of course and with BRZ specifically it was insane that barely 2 months had passed when you could see those RB BRZ everywhere.. Crazy.
These kits destroy cars. People are probably not going to track their stock car and it makes the car less drivable since these cars wasn’t design to be driven with wider tires especially on poorly maintenance public roads.
This is such a new car guy take. Widebody kits are not recent and they haven’t got out of style.. maybe in the hype, boy scene that no one gives a shit about but that doesn’t make a difference for the rest of us
My only issue with body kits is when you don't fill out the gap with tire. I have seen many builds that take up the space with more offset. The reason that overfenders became a thing was not for looks. It was meant so that you could run a wider tire.
Great video man, you just earned a sub. I love it when i find a small creator like you and others, because I know their is struggle and strife in the content.
I adamantly refuse to support reps period. Seeing how few people know Hayashi but definitely know the Shakotan is a pretty good example of reps being so rampant it hurts the original. Especially when they're a small company. I wouldn't attack anyone but I also wouldn't run reps myself.
Rocket bunny is and always will be known as the body kit for the ricer, everyone used them on cars with no performance, shitty stance builds, that's why it died off
That's bull. I've seen others put power and making it clean, ricers put whatever they want to make their cars attract a crowd, fart can exhausts, all that shit
Although I agree with the points made about cheap replica kits and poor installs. The kit, or more specifically the changes that are needed to be made to the wheel geometry to get it flush with the fender made the car feel heavy and slow. Which is a big negative on such a low powered car like the 86. It wouldn’t be unfair to say that going widebody ruined it. Then owners got dissatisfied and moved on.
The market was flooded with them. It was the go to kit for SEMA when the GT86/BRZ and the A90 was fresh for the Aftermarket scene. I went from "Oh nice RB kit..." to "oh wow ANOTHER car with the same RB kit.. how creative" Then when you played, Forza, NFS or any other game that lets you customize, it's RB, Big Country Labs and Speedhunters. Its interesting how I saw 100s of RB kits on FRS/GT86/BRZs handful on some 350/370s, but they all looked the same. Peak lol is when a 240SX looks like a mix between a 67 Camaro and 1970s Cuda. Don't forget this is a trend society. Once the trend is set, they over commit to it and then it becomes "base"
True! 💯 Never really liked those kind of kits. Race cars in the past had riveted fenders for a reason! It was “Function Over Form”! On a street car it just looks cheap and unfinished… Back in the day people created proper molded-in widebodies for their cars in the Tuning scene!
This is bang on. The Rocket Bunny style has been aped and it's now made for everything. I could even buy a Rocket Bunny style kit for my commuter DD, a disposable, base model Ford Fiesta. Whatever car you have, someone is making Rocket Bunny style fenders for it and that waters down the style.
@@AthenaAutocross Yup. Yet, Rocket Bunny does not make a Fiesta ST kit. Someone else makes a Rocket Bunny style kit for it, hence the point of the video.
@@AthenaAutocross Uh yeah dude, aping the style waters down the brand. That's my point, thank you for reinforcing it. Thanks for trying to tell me what I already know about Fiesta chassis too. Here I thought it was luck the parts were interchangeable, lol. I don't know what fight you were hoping to pick but, uh, you seem to be both winning and losing in your mind.
@@AthenaAutocross weird, Googling "Rocket Bunny Fiesta" yields products for sale, forum posts and galleries of people calling some rando wide body kits a Rocket Bunny. I hope your dedication to being upset is giving you whatever self satisfaction you need my guy.
It's what happens with all the car trends. You get a really cool concept/style that comes to light. Everyone jizzes over it but, no one can afford it and then the rep companies come out and price everything down along with the quality. That concept/style is now way more accessible and the people with poor taste come in to ruin it for everyone. Think underglow, slamming cars, bodykits and paintjobs from the 90s-00's, etc.
@@MrNorotic there are no trends for proper stuff. Style is forever. A slammed s13 with tucked vsxx’s, a bn sports kit and some window stickers still looks as cool as it did over a decade ago. Only the bad stuff become a ‘trend’ by the clueless people who eventually grow up to realise how garbage it is
i personally dont think that rep markets are a problem, cause in crushing majority of cases those who buy reps would not be able to afford the original product. Rep markets actually grow the popularity of the original products, and i mean, as you said it yourself, they are doing fine, those who can afford an original rocket bunny bodykit will buy the original product. I understand that in this case the popularity of reps "damaged" the aesthetics of the original product, but idk man, i dont actually think someone would refuse to get an original body kit cause the reps look bad, doesnt seems to make sense to me
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Personally I love the Rocket Bunny body kits, even the exposed bolts, giant wings and extreme width. But I know and understand this is a turn off for many but I like the rawness of it.
As long as it’s not a turn off for you is all that matters. I hate the scene in the US because it’s so demanding from everyone. We need to learn from japan and accept everyones build. Rocket Bunny kits are RAW.
Low and wide has always been cool imo. Shoot, chop tops, trimmed or deleted fenders, and wide slicks have been popular since the 30s.
Any rocket bunny kit done right will always look good an people who are usually not into that style will still like it.. i got a pandem kit on my lexus rc an everyone whos seen it loves it i never got any hate irl for my car just love even my stepdad whos more into mustangs loves it an he usally hates imports lol... it just has to be done right wide never dies
@@wercorteztv3603 accepting shitty "builds" is why the car scene is so trash.
A bottomed out 350z p.o.s. on Ebay coilovers and a chopped off exhaust isn't a build, that's a disgrace
Agreed, love aggressive style kits and wings as a kid and recently have grown to also love the nice sleek and fitting mods, i now really love both styles if im honest!
This is kind of sad . I didn't think this could happen To Rocket Bunny. You said that they are still making kits and Im happy for that hope they continue. Im sure people will come back around. Now I'm thinking of I should buy a real front lip or not most of those companies are either closed or discontinued the product for my car. I do get a kick out of buying my parts directly from the manufacturer eg hasport.
I personally dont see anything wrong with buying fake parts if they arent being produced anymore, might be a little worse than the original but not the end of the world lmao
@@cian___ in the classic world we do a lot of repop stuff. Try finding a real set of torque flights nowadays. I did buy a set off an og lowrider that was in his 70s or 80s and i can honestly say i have no idea how i got so lucky.
@@cian___ kind of relating this to shoes. with the resale of the original product being 5-20 times more than the original value. i buy reps because i just want to use that said shoe. same with discontinued car parts, i dont see anything wrong with it if you cant get the original. more or so it looks almost similar to the original too but doesnt give u the same satisfaction as u would buying it from the original manufactuerer
@@zeru4600 why do you buy rep shoes? I always hear about them, how there are good and bad quality reps and so forth. I've just never known where to the good ones, so I've never pulled the trigger on any.
@@cian___ I have a rep body kit on my 01 civic
I think rocketbunny was a lot cooler in v1 frs/s13 phase. Back then most of the cars produced with the kits were really good quality builds from Japan. I think once it crossed over into the US, it just got bad. Nowadays I enjoy seeing the renders, and the recent releases for old muscle cars like the Camaro are cool.
Edit: FRS V1 is my favorite and I will always enjoy seeing a well built V1 frs,brz,86 anyday.
i think rocketbunny peaked with the boss s14. take it with a grain of salt as i'm personally biased to my favorite RB kit, but i think the boss s14 proved that rocketbunny had the clout to take beloved sports cars and completely flip the script on it aesthetically. i'll acknowledge at the fact that it's still polarizing to this day but i think my other favorites would have to go to the cayman and GR yaris
"once it crossed over into the US, it just got bad" ... that's literally because most people were buying knock of reps and those affordable half baked messes spread everywhere. So many fenders murdered on horrible installs. Craigslist and FB Marketplace is full of wannabe Rocket Bunny abortions.
I really like v2 because its not too aggressive and not too little. Its just perfect
I kinda feel the opposite, even the expensive stuff looks cheap. I honestly couldn't tell an authentic Scion from one with the ebay kit, and if installed incompetently it all looks like shit. and let's be real you got tired of the look real soon. Especially if you did it to your own car (and especially if you did it for the gram.) I always wonder where the cars go when they aren't online.
I hated the dimple style that the v2 had, that's why V1 and V3.5 were my favorites
Your comment on how RB started with the people's car made me think that RB's departure from the everyman car to collector or high end cars could have negatively affected the company. It blows my mind that there's a kit for the Nissan Titan truck but not a single version of the 10th gen Civic.
It makes sense plus a lot of purist really hate the look of the exposed rivets. But having seen real pandem kits before on well executed builds irl its so hard for me to hate them and I feel like their kits are as good as it gets for letting the hands of one's work be seen in a build it always leaves a nice impression on me.
Not to mention they fit really well. If your building a race car and not a show car pandem/rocket bunny kits are great for just getting your car wider if you aren’t too particular about looks.
tuff for those so called "purists", I have had a passions for aviation and automotive since I was 4, seeing exposed rivets on a car makes my cock hard.
Don't leave out drift also
Am not the biggest rivet fan, but when done right...
I personally like the exposed rivets. Gives it more of a “built” look instead of a “Oh, the car is supposed to look like this” vibe.
In a short summery: oversaturation, non-stop copy/paste format and overall degradation of quality control via non-professional fabricators is what killed interest and public appeal in Pandem's style.
(Quick edit, Pandem is just Rocket Bunny US. Supposedly its for copyright reasoning, most people don't know that Ig)
This Is What Happeneds When We Stop Bulling... People Are Rolling Around With Knockoff Claiming Real Deal....And America Hardly Makes Anything Most Likely It With Say Made In China....China Doesn't Have Copy Write Laws
It just became part of the endless hype train for influencer types I feel. The kind of people who create trends because they need content don't nurture said trends, they move on while suckers hold the bag.
@@derb_ The issue isn't creating or being apart of trends, the issue is people thinking those trends are all that matter. Times change, naturally people look for ways to stand out from the crowd, but if everybody is doing the same thing then what exactly is the point.
Worse, a decent sum of people in the car community (at least newbies) seem to forget that there was likely a point to those specific designs: Wide body kits, high profile rims, stance tuning...all to benefit the proformance in a certain way: They weren't just for looks.
Today people dropping big bands on mods for attention rather than purpose. If dude is decent, they'd drop 5-15k on a body kit, nice wheels, maybe even go the extra mile to talk to a tuner about getting more power under the hood but in most cases, its all cheap parts, wannabe racers and no experience. Gilded exterior and clapped interior.
All I can really say is that if your into cars and going fast, I suggest working from the inside out: Yes, having something that grabs attention is nice, but a stock looking sleeper will give you a better reputation than a riced out beater.
Also, another reason why the car community catches such a bad rap is all those clowns doing stupid sh*t at meetups: too many inexperienced show-offs, no quality control on who can get in and who can't. Only two ways of finding a meet back then was by invite only or by chance, and if you acted an a*s, you weren't invited back...i.e. being reckless, talking about stuff you knew nothing about or snitching on yourself and your buddies by telling randoms, or these days, streaming yourself like a brainlet.
Sorry to tangent off like that but I just wanted to share my opinion on the current state of the car scene.
I think poor kids with no sense of quality style just ruin everything in the car scene. Like literally everything. They buy all the rare cars. Zip tie everything wrap everything around trees and curbs. Just total cancer
Rocket bunny was very much a product of its time. It became the Ed Hardy of body styling.
That's a perf example
Very interesting take. Although I don’t like any Ed hardy but I do like the quality RB builds… although I probably wouldn’t do one haha
Personally, im not a fan of rocket bunny styled builds. This is not to say they're not good looking. The mere prospect of hacking a car then screwing on flares is a tad too crude and irreversible for my taste. I do agree with the replica ordeal, but i suspect some of the more seasoned enthusiasts will echo my sentiments.
Very true, honestly I’d only hack and cut a car up like that if it was a drift build
@@CamCadie exactly, which makes alot of sense because the car is now purpose built for competition.
I agree, all the street kits that are taking the market and best quality are a the full remplacement fenders and you can keep the stock ones and reverse to stock body in short time
@@franmt4275 that’s only for the front fenders tho, still have to cut up the quarter panel
Bolt on fenders are not the issue. If talking about an actual racecar I see these as(even repos) useful mods. Talking as a style choice, this is shit ricer styling plain and simple. I find dome flared out fender hilarious but the first time I saw a rocker bunny kit, I gagged. Cutting the stock rear fenders does make me question my sanity but look at FEED engineering. At least their original Fd3s wide looked good AND was functional. These kits(rocket bunny) ARE KNOCKOFFS OF RWB, just bad ones
Randomly found this on my recommended and I really enjoyed the video. Keep up the good work
Awesome mini-documentary that you've got. I still remember my Dad and I finding early coverage of Rocket Bunny in 2013 on Speedhunters, and being amazed by it as a kid. The reception and attitude for it definitely changed in the past years, and it's interesting to listen to your take on it!! Keep on making contemporary tuning-culture videos like this, I love it!
the thing about modifying a car in this way is that it attracts a much younger demographic usually, and by default a younger person probably has a lot less money to spend, thus rep kits getting the sales. another thing too is the wait on an authentic kit can be a long time, on top of very expensive. gen Z and millenials have a hard time waiting for anything. most of the rep kits were put on the car very poorly as well so its probably a good thing they didn't waste an authentic kit. i think eventually everyone got tired of the bolted on "widebody" look, as it took off pretty fast and seemed like everyone was doing it
The convenience of modern society makes it hard to not feel like everything is at your fingertips, this has nothing to do with genz or whatever bullshit you believe, most old people I see waiting for a pizza at the store are always so desperate for their pizza to finish.
It's easy to point fingers but I'm pretty sure you're part of the problem.
Bolted widebody never looked good to me. But I always preferred late 90s styling.
Idc I still like how it looks
I immediately stopped liking the kits when I met a couple of the car's owners at a meet. 4 words. Douche. Bags. Parent's Money.
Stance is also on the way out in the scene. I'm seeing fewer new kits with the riveted fenders and "boxiness" of RB kits. If fewer people want the look, the kits will be bought less.
I think what started the downfall of stance was that clown who set his own rx8 on fire and blamed it on a "hater" that never existed
I won't mention his name because I don't want to give that clown any attention
@@retrogamersev5543 it was dying way before he ever got clout
Accurate. The rocket bunny frs was so hot for about a year then it got to the point that there were 3 in my local scene after a year. The kits got so common we used to clown on them
I honestly still like them, I went through a phase of hating on them, but its hard to not admit they were baller when they first came out
@@cian___ there are still people out there who are doing hood rocket bunny style builds, its just unfortunate that most people that go for this style half ass it, plus most of them all look the same.
@@cian___ same they are still nice kits but yea it was like everywhere so obviously what was cool was not cool anymore sadly
BRZ. Same styling
@@ralcolfwolfcoon8207 Please tell me you know that the brz, frs, and gt86 are the same cars
Reps have always killed or slowed brand names. This is probably before you got into this, but Veilside, Bomex, Mint Blue and a few other JDM brands opened shop in LA in 2000/01. The amount of knock offs offered after about a year made a lot of those original companies close up (Bomex is still around). Almost all the knock off brands weren't as good quality and fitment, but people also didn't want to pay the high price. I got an original Feel's kit for my EK, but there were knock offs a few months later. I paid a high price for an original and it showed.. but knock off prices... you can't beat.
If knockoffs kill companies. Should drivers design their own kits ?
@@xr.spedtech That's a different question that what put out. But nowadays, people have the resources to 3d print, 3d scan... I mean fabrication availability on IG is everywhere, 23yrs ago, it wasn't as plentiful. Then we start to get into the quality and quality assurance of products. It is what it is.
WINGS WEST made a look-a-like kit of the FEEL’S widebody kit.
loved the music choice and video bro very well done
This was a great video. Also thumbs up for the song choice. One of my favorites.
What's the first song called
@@lucaspaulshinefagan5813 Najubes - too lazy to look up title
one thing i gotta say is i LOVE the samurai champloo background music! the vid itself was highly informative and well put together but the music taste is def a cherry on top. Keep up the great content!!
Pandem/rockt bunny kits are always amazing
The samurai champloo background music goes hard.
this video is so well put together, honestly dude, topic of the video aside, kudos. this videos great
very cool video you should consider doing one on wheels from the 90s-00s. I've never seen a video like it and I feel like your style of video would shine some well deserved light on some really well designed and styled wheels. So many different wheels. so many different brands, and such a cool era in JDM history!
Nujabes! I haven’t heard him in a minute, RIP!
The bolts always killed me! Molding the kit to the body is what turns my head.
i always thought of it as like med evil armor, or even futuristic video game space armor.
starting to realize why people dislike hyundai owners
@@vortexx3028 why? 😂 bolts showing just looks cheap. Looks so out of place to be on a car.
@@nmode22 No way bros talkin bout cheap with them bigahh crome badonkadonk wheels on his huyundai💀
@@vlcallmeprince-x6032 😂😂😂
@1:03 that's my car when I purchased it from the previous owner! I watched this the first time around and didn't even spot it, a friend just let me know! Agree on the original body styles look so much better, sadly Rocket Bunnys problem was copy kits.
I love the Najubes, Samurai shamploo in the background. It was a great informational video and the editing too. You deserve more credit and subs.ñ man so for now you got a New sub 👍🏻
great video bro. and the nujabes. adds taste. Deserve much more than 1.4k subs !
Just found ur channel and loving the content and *aesthetic* . Well deserved sub, no idea how you don’t have way more subscribers
agreed
The champloo music though... Great taste my friend.
Any industry of creativity will ebb and flow between periods of flashy style to subdued looks
Underrated channel 😢
Super high quality video tbh. Would watch again
The samurai champloo background music is such a nice touch, good job
congrats on your first big video. 🎉 can't wait to see what you produce next!
Bra.. U deserve so much more subssssss plss keep posting I love your vids🥺
nujabes background music hooked me in lol
This reminds me of what happened to the Meyers Manx. Replica buggy’s that did what Meyers did for cheaper, without sacrificing too much in style and functionality.
We see a lot of people in our comments saying they straight up dislike (sometimes hate) the styling of rocket bunny, so it is hard for us to believe replica parts are solely responsible for killing off the RB brand. Just our opinion, This video is super well structured though keep going! 🙌
Yeap. Reps didn't kill Rocket Bunny, its them becoming self generic and being the icon of the bolt on over fender trend, which went out of style, that killed Rocket Bunny.
I'd say those comments are nonsense because a quick scan through Craigslist, FB Marketplace, Offer-Up, etc. yields enough project cars with half assed Rocket Bunny style installs to tell me it's actually quite popular.
I'm not a fan of the RB kits, myself. I don't hate them, though at one point I'd certainly say that I did. I just don't find the look at all appealing.
I mean that's just USA car fans. Our car scene is so emotionally stunted that's its all ego and very little about community or even about car builds anymore
Yeah, it would be this shit podcast defending reps.
You earned a sub just by your choice of BGM alone. Keep it up.
When The Rocket Bunny rps 13 silvia notchback first came out, I've always it's just a more obnoxious rendition of Instant Gentlemen's kit. Never even thought of this brand being able to take off globally compared to it's contemporaries of the era.
Is that a nujabes song im hearing!?!?!?! We need to protect this man at all costs
Still have my V1 Rocket bunny fenders (Living in Japan, I sent them back to Australia and stuck them in storage), I'll put them on eventually. They take me back to my childhood, with the factory 1977 Holden Torana SS Hatchback bodykit. Watching Bathurst in the 70's with Peter Brock driving the A9X version and even owning a stock one in the 90's, as soon as I saw the 86 kit it was must buy...
fantastic video! i love the comparison between rocketbunny kits and rwb kits.
As well, it really goes to show that not only is it worth it to get the right stuff, that purchasing decision has farther reaching implications than just getting a good part.
I would definitely consider buying a original RB kit if it wasnt so close to impossible to get it street-legal here in Germany.
You won't be driving cars there much longer anyway
Kannst du per einzelabnahme eintragen lassen.
I'm just here before you blow up. You deserve WAY more than 164 Subscribers!
i love how you used nujabes in the background as music , love champloo
easy, expensive and not everyone can have it = coolness factor and interest is always up.
Cheap and easily available = meh factor and no one cares since anyone can have it now and instead of 1-2 per show it's literally every kid with a 2k credit card, line, etc and suddenly 20+ per show show up and instantly kills the interesting factor.
Well done on this video. We started yt around the same time and were roughly in the same sub counts until recent lol. I've been here since the North America Levin video, I am both jealous and impressed
Thanks, I've seen your videos as well haha
Dope video man, never heard of rocket bunny but i was hooked in the first 20 seconds.
I don't like this over the top bodykits because they don't fit my vision as an engineer, they can even be cool in pictures, but in reality it's something that, unless you have a full racing car, ruins the driveability, because either you're going to use giant spacers or you're going to use giant tires, either way you are destroying the car's handling without reengineering the suspension. That's why most of these cars are trailer queens, which go against my belief.
Bro holy shit you don't have enough subs! This was such a great watch!
Love the channel love the video and I totally related to the super street browsing any time i had a computer at school!
Awesome content! You're underrated bro
I saw BRZ and FRS and I clicked, then learned something new. Thank you! :D
I hear the Nujabes and instantly know I gotta watch the whole thing...
RIP Seba Jun
Nice to see old Alexi/Noriyaro at 2:35 in his s13
Back when I was building a 240sx I wanted to get a RB kit as it was JUST released. Several months later it was so oversatured around and everyone it seemed "had one" I had to drop that idea eventually especially as replicas started getting produced originally for autosport to replaced expensive parts that were trashed on regularly basis. Later it found itself on the market of course and with BRZ specifically it was insane that barely 2 months had passed when you could see those RB BRZ everywhere.. Crazy.
The moment I heard Racing Lagoon's soundtrack I had to hit like
These kits destroy cars. People are probably not going to track their stock car and it makes the car less drivable since these cars wasn’t design to be driven with wider tires especially on poorly maintenance public roads.
This is so true, especially when sometimes people cut up their cars just to fit that RB kit... RB only makes your car slower.
This video is nice and simple. Also i like the Samuria Champloo music in the background
Man that Yaris RB kit is amazing on the eyes of a rally fan.
Funny to stumble across this, seeing these cars cruising through Port Melbourne and down Beach Rd. Seen them driving around
to this day, i still love the rocket bunny kits, even with all the reps out there, they are just stunning.
This is such a new car guy take. Widebody kits are not recent and they haven’t got out of style.. maybe in the hype, boy scene that no one gives a shit about but that doesn’t make a difference for the rest of us
My only issue with body kits is when you don't fill out the gap with tire. I have seen many builds that take up the space with more offset. The reason that overfenders became a thing was not for looks. It was meant so that you could run a wider tire.
Great video man, you just earned a sub. I love it when i find a small creator like you and others, because I know their is struggle and strife in the content.
I adamantly refuse to support reps period. Seeing how few people know Hayashi but definitely know the Shakotan is a pretty good example of reps being so rampant it hurts the original. Especially when they're a small company. I wouldn't attack anyone but I also wouldn't run reps myself.
The Racing Lagoon and samurai champloo music was a very nice touch.
Mint choice with the Racing Lagoon background music.
I never knew people started disliking it in the first place, this is news to me.
this was a great video, your editing is so simple and good.
really well put together video 👌🏾
Only 499 views deserve more this is a top quality video
thank you for bringing this up, I had no idea how bad it was
also subbed
Great vid mate you got a new sub
Rocket bunny is and always will be known as the body kit for the ricer, everyone used them on cars with no performance, shitty stance builds, that's why it died off
That's bull. I've seen others put power and making it clean, ricers put whatever they want to make their cars attract a crowd, fart can exhausts, all that shit
Love the nujabes music in the background at the start man's the goat
loved that you used the soundtrack from racing lagoon you got my sub
Subbed. Well executed RB kits were extremely cool for a time and watching them become the replica standard on 86s was terrible.
What? The BRZ looked slick with that kit. Plus power.
Great video and fantastic music choice 👌
Was that the racing lagoon soundtrack I heard?
Although I agree with the points made about cheap replica kits and poor installs. The kit, or more specifically the changes that are needed to be made to the wheel geometry to get it flush with the fender made the car feel heavy and slow. Which is a big negative on such a low powered car like the 86. It wouldn’t be unfair to say that going widebody ruined it. Then owners got dissatisfied and moved on.
The samurai champloo background music was an excellent touch.
The market was flooded with them. It was the go to kit for SEMA when the GT86/BRZ and the A90 was fresh for the Aftermarket scene. I went from "Oh nice RB kit..." to "oh wow ANOTHER car with the same RB kit.. how creative" Then when you played, Forza, NFS or any other game that lets you customize, it's RB, Big Country Labs and Speedhunters. Its interesting how I saw 100s of RB kits on FRS/GT86/BRZs handful on some 350/370s, but they all looked the same. Peak lol is when a 240SX looks like a mix between a 67 Camaro and 1970s Cuda.
Don't forget this is a trend society. Once the trend is set, they over commit to it and then it becomes "base"
True! 💯
Never really liked those kind of kits.
Race cars in the past had riveted fenders for a reason!
It was “Function Over Form”!
On a street car it just looks cheap and unfinished…
Back in the day people created proper molded-in widebodies for their cars in the Tuning scene!
Wow that AE86 is super nice. Love the cage from what I can see on this phone over here it's beautiful, amongst alot of those other builds. 👍😎
When rocket bunnys line stops i bet these things are gonna be a big trend later *in our lives
Dude. We currently live in the 21st century. So I think the window on that is closed.
@@brandons9138 that was a little embarrising of me
@@donovanwalker5222 Perhaps, but maybe you're a time traveler. Who knows.
New Cian video made my bad day better
Thanks boss
Bro this video is blowin you up 🎉 great video and congratulations on your growth!
Nice little morning vid with some breaky
In theory: the auto scene was kinda stagnant and was trying to do something different.
In reality: gen z turned 16
A really aweasome video. Really enjoyed it
Your gonna get big man more videos like this!!
This is bang on. The Rocket Bunny style has been aped and it's now made for everything. I could even buy a Rocket Bunny style kit for my commuter DD, a disposable, base model Ford Fiesta. Whatever car you have, someone is making Rocket Bunny style fenders for it and that waters down the style.
@@AthenaAutocross Yup. Yet, Rocket Bunny does not make a Fiesta ST kit. Someone else makes a Rocket Bunny style kit for it, hence the point of the video.
@@AthenaAutocross Uh yeah dude, aping the style waters down the brand. That's my point, thank you for reinforcing it. Thanks for trying to tell me what I already know about Fiesta chassis too. Here I thought it was luck the parts were interchangeable, lol. I don't know what fight you were hoping to pick but, uh, you seem to be both winning and losing in your mind.
@@AthenaAutocross weird, Googling "Rocket Bunny Fiesta" yields products for sale, forum posts and galleries of people calling some rando wide body kits a Rocket Bunny.
I hope your dedication to being upset is giving you whatever self satisfaction you need my guy.
@@max_coast find a company who is selling their flares or widebody labeled as rocket bunny. You won't.
@@AthenaAutocross LOL I don't know what your infatuation with me is from, but I'm taken bro. Your failure to use Google is also a deal breaker.
It's what happens with all the car trends. You get a really cool concept/style that comes to light. Everyone jizzes over it but, no one can afford it and then the rep companies come out and price everything down along with the quality. That concept/style is now way more accessible and the people with poor taste come in to ruin it for everyone.
Think underglow, slamming cars, bodykits and paintjobs from the 90s-00's, etc.
Underflow can be done tastefully
underglow, slamming cars, bodykits, liveries are all cool and still being done. You ever looked at the drift scene? Final bout is a great example
@@blur4916Never said it isn't all cool. My point is that people with no taste ruin trends.
@@MrNorotic there are no trends for proper stuff. Style is forever. A slammed s13 with tucked vsxx’s, a bn sports kit and some window stickers still looks as cool as it did over a decade ago. Only the bad stuff become a ‘trend’ by the clueless people who eventually grow up to realise how garbage it is
the nujabes backround music! what drum n bass song is at 1:35?
Loved your comment about the S13 being the car of the people. By the way I’m the scum bag kid with one. 😂
1:05 bro that samurai champloo track in the background gave me mad nostalgia
I hear that Samurai Champloo Nujabes playing in the back🤌🏾 great taste
Good video, liked and subscribed 👍 lol "...he is in great peril"
i personally dont think that rep markets are a problem, cause in crushing majority of cases those who buy reps would not be able to afford the original product. Rep markets actually grow the popularity of the original products, and i mean, as you said it yourself, they are doing fine, those who can afford an original rocket bunny bodykit will buy the original product.
I understand that in this case the popularity of reps "damaged" the aesthetics of the original product, but idk man, i dont actually think someone would refuse to get an original body kit cause the reps look bad, doesnt seems to make sense to me
nice vid, music was fantastic, informative, excellent all around
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