Anyone know what they're calling the jacked-up front with headlights blinding air traffic and rear ends dropped so your groceries all roll out when you open your tailgate?
It's known by many names, often determined by location: "Tennessee Tilt", "Carolina Squat", etc. More universally known as "squatted".
What is the value or intention? I can already imagine a number of problems with it like oil starvation if you're a quart low, visibility when parking, seeing people, especially children, crossing the street.
To get your attention and to feel accepted by the others that rely on the same attention for validation and acceptance. When the stupid stance doesn't get enough eyes on them, they install straight pipes and horn speakers and leave their stereos blasting at the gas station so everyone HAS to hear their autotune bleeping and blurping for a 1/4 mile radius. Oil starvation doesn't seem to be an issue in most examples. Probably cuz the sump is in the rearmost part of the engine. I have noticed that they seem to be commonly for sale on Marketplace due to needing a transmission, or after having a transmission replaced. So, maybe it affects the trans more than anything. Visibility (in any sense), handling dynamics, mechanical damage, the basic undeniable stupid appearance... All are not a concern and you'll never find a "squatter" that's
not in denial about those factors. They got your attention, good or bad and that's all they need. Reliable and useful vehicles that aren't a life-threatening danger are boring and don't garner the attention that being "locally hated" does.
