We all know what they are and know that they’re pretty damn cool. But where did they come from, how do you explain the lowrider style?

The South Asian style of building basic cars like the Corolla takes a page out of classic Japanese tuning: lowering the car until it scrapes and is mostly difficult to drive. Bonkers, but cool.

Zafar Mashfee converts a stock Impreza to road ripping STi

Autosmith tuned 600+ AWHP Mitsubishi Evo 6. A continuously evolving monster thrill-fest on wheels.

The Ceres, Marino, Camry Prominent, Exiv, ED, all worked hard at providing some form of cool factor to what might have been completely boring family cars Toyota. Add a little bit more and you have a uber-cool subtle sedan in the form of this ED.