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    Welcome to the exciting world of car modification! If you’re new to the scene, it can feel a bit overwhelming. But don’t worry—we’ve got you covered. This guide will walk you through the basics of car mods, offer practical tips for choosing the right parts, and recommend some beginner-friendly mod packages. Understanding the Basics of Car Mods Before diving into modifications, it’s important to understand what each part does. Front Lip: Installed under the front bumper, it enhances aerodynamics and gives your car a lower, sportier look. Rear Lip: Similar to the front lip but for the rear bumper, it improves airflow at the back and adds a sporty touch. Rear Wing: Mounted on the rear of the car, it increases downforce, making your car more stable at high speeds. Side Skirts: Installed along the sides, they lower the car’s visual profile and can slightly improve aerodynamics. Grille...

          We, as human, tend to be individualistic. We are always seeking ways to differentiate from one another. We tend to not buy the same clothes that our siblings already own. Even if we end up buying very popular items, we tend to look for ways to make our own stand out. For instance, Apple’s iPhone is a very popular smartphone; millions of people own it but owners try to differentiate themselves by putting a phone case on it to show their individuality, their personality. As we often do at NINTE, we had a brainstorming about it and reached a conclusion that it also extends to cars. We tend to buy cars that suit our personality and if the car in itself is of neutral genre, we tend to rely on simple customization to make it feel like “our own”. We curated a list of car...

Get your vehicle spoiler for sporty upgrade! Spoilers are vehicle accessories used to assist with the aerodynamics of a vehicle by disrupting the localized airflow. To install a spoiler on a vehicle is not just for an exterior sporty upgrading, it is mainly for enhancing the aerodynamic performance of the vehicles by lessening the vehicle’s encounters with the wind. automobiles Manufacturers seems increasingly installing spoilers on their high-performance vehicles to distinguish from those regular versions. A spoiler is a bar that interrupts localized airflow to slow down the vehicle and decrease lift. It is usually mounted on the trunk lid, rear window, or tail end of the roof. Function A Spoiler Serve Spoiler is an aerodynamic device that is used to disrupt the flow of air over the roof of a car. It is designed to deflect air upward and away from a vehicle. High performance vehicles benefit from the...

    The Fast Saga is among the most popular ones in the movie industry, earning more than USD 7 billion in their cumulated box office. While most people watch is for the action-packed scene, there is a small group of people not interested in the movie in itself but THE AMAZING CARS that they showcase in it (I am more of the latter, how about you?). Whether it is the 1995 Toyota Supra Turbo or the 2002 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII that Paul Walker (may he rest in peace) was driving in the movies or the legendary Dodge Viper (a tribute to all American muscles) that Vin Diesel was showcasing throughout the whole saga.    As usual, we discussed about the movies here at Ninte and was drooling on all the car greatness in the saga. However, none of us are Hollywood movies millionaires so even if we wanted...

Most licensed drivers have experiences with a naturally aspirated engine at least during their learning days —but probably most people didn’t pay attention.  This oldest, most primitive, and simplest type of engine has been around for more than a hundred years. Whether it was during the oil crisis in the 1970s, or the trend of new energy today, normally aspirated engines continue to stay in the history of cars.  As today in 2022, there are still car manufacturing giants that are putting efforts on normally aspirated engines. Porsche just brought us the best performance of the 718 series, with the 4.0L normally aspirated engine on the 911 GT3; Ferrari's latest limited model, the Daytona SP3, uses V12 normally aspirated engines; Toyota and Subaru continue to cooperate for the  new generation of the 86/BRZ, insisting on normally aspirated engines and increase the displacement from 2.0L to 2.4L against the trend of...

Airbags, great and mysterious, hiding in the places we can’t see while offering us the greatest help when needed. And in one car, there are several of them, according to the positions, there are driver and passenger airbags, side airbags, side curtain airbags, knee airbags, there are even seatbelt airbags, pedestrian airbags, and roof airbags. Among these airbags, due to various reasons, pedestrian airbags and roof airbags have extremely low configuration rates. For example, there’s only Citroen C4 Cactus that’s equipped with roof airbags.  But the weird thing is that the pedestrian airbags (Volvo V40, Subaru Legacy Outback) which also have a very low configuration rate are having an extremely high exposure and are highly praised by the people. How come the importance of roof airbags has never been noticed by the public? Is it possible for it to evolve in the future?  Are  roof airbags useful? Why does it...

Is there no lightweight for steel framed car bodies? Regarding the lightweight of the car body, the most impressive thing to everyone is the lightweight materials such as plastics, aluminum alloys, and carbon fiber. Major automakers and the media also attach great importance to the application of lightweight materials in body manufacturing. The civilian-grade carbon fiber body represented by the BMW i-series, and the Jaguar XFL all-aluminum body, which uses aluminum to the extreme, all play with new materials. Although the new materials are dazzling, some friends may want to ask, is there no lightening of the traditional steel frame body with "starlight dim"? The answer is of course no. Compared with the new material body that can attract the public's attention as soon as it goes on the market, the big boy next door who is not very good at self-expression is probably already crying in the toilet. Having...

Out of the need for light weight, more and more auto parts are changed from metal parts to plastic parts, and even some chassis parts have begun to appear plastic.Because this topic is quite controversial, we will continue with this today and talk about the plasticization of other parts.Our topic today is also "large parts". As far as passenger cars are concerned, with a volume of about 50L, it naturally can't escape the fate of being lightweight. Yes, it is the plastic fuel tank. | Fuel tanks are also catching up with the trend of plastics The fuel tank was originally welded with cold-rolled steel plates, and the structure was relatively simple. However, as passenger cars are getting lower and lower, the requirements for chassis flatness are getting higher and higher, which poses no small challenges to the layout of the fuel tank.Therefore, the European fuel tank manufacturer Kautex began...

BMW is familiar to all of us, car enthusiast or not, since it is one of the top car manufacturer in the world. As far as I (and I am sure most of us) can remember, the car manufacturer only had one logo: the classic roundel. That consistency is the reason why it stuck with us and became such a classic design. That classic logo that we became so familiar with was not even their first logo (in fact it was their fifth), but it kept most of the original design and was the official logo of the brand for nearly 23 years. With the new decade starting, BMW decided to have a cleaner start (see what I did there?). However, before diving into what made them redesign the roundel, let’s take a glimpse into the origin of the logo and its meaning for a more comprehensive understanding.   Origin...

Everyday new records are being made and old ones are being broken; from the most frivolous and weird ones, like the ‘Most apples crushed with he bicep’, to the most inspiring ones, such as the ‘Youngest Nobel Prize Winner’. There are millions of world record titles out there. As a car enthusiast, I went on and searched for all car related Guinness World Record ever made. As you may have expected, most of the world records are in the ‘weird things’ category than in the amazing one. I scrapped through thousands of records from the Guinness World Record and selected the 10 that I thought was the most amazing ones.   The Fastest Car (Land Speed) As a car enthusiast, the love for speed is definitely one we have in common. The record is 1227.985 km/hour (763.035 mi/hour) or also Mach 1.02, set by Andy Green in the United States...