DEVIL HOPPING

Those of us who were around in the scene in the late-1990s and early-2000s will remember an age with a distinct modifying style. It was all over our sister magazine , and the various now-defunct tuner mags such as and . It wasn’t so much an established look, since there was such diversity in that period, but more of a state of mind: essentially, all bets were off. Bigger was better, silly was king, and it was a real arms race on the cruising scene to rock up on the seafront with the most extreme mods – brash colour schemes, Lambo doors, huge fibreglass audio installs full of multiple subs and TVs. Everyone had a PlayStation in the dash and a set of chrome 19in wheels.readers in the Focus oeuvre, and stirred in just a smidge of that early-2000s lunacy. It’s most notable in the fitment of those in-your-face Lambo-style scissor doors, a stylistic flourish still able to drop jaws today with its overt unusualness. It’s actually a hugely practical mod in terms of parking in public car parks, although we suspect that isn’t why Christoph did it…