Editorials

Defined, stance is "the manner and position in which a person or animal stands", loosely translated to automobiles stance used to be explicitly refer to how a vehicles body was positioned relative to it's wheels and the...

At the end of each year I've always found it fitting to look back on a few of the trends, both on-line and otherwise, that took the car community documented here on Stance Is Everything by storm the last three hundred and sixty five days. If nothing else posts like these are always amusing to look back on the following years to assist in separating the trends from the fads.

Derek Kreindler is well educated, well spoken, Toronto based car nut who is not scared to voice his opinions. He recently wrote a article titled Hella Suck for his personal blog Rich Corinthian Leather. Hella Suck touched on his feelings towards what is now known as the stance movement and was published on Speed: Sport Life where Motor Mavens found it and all hell broke loose. If you have yet to read Hella Suck I suggest that you do, however might I also suggest that you take a deep breath before responding to it.

Every day I like to make my rounds in the automotive blogsphere to keep a breast of what's happening in other scenes. One of the blogs I frequent is Speedhunters. For those of you who don't know Speedhunters is an automotive culture blog run by Electronic Arts, this blog touches on every part of the automotive hobby. Every month they do a theme, October was BMW month, and November was slammed month. Surprise, surprise, I was a big fan of slammed month. One thing I did notice via the comments though was that was that quite a few people were not fans of slammed month. It seems most of the people who were not fans based their arguments around function and those who were fans based theirs around form.