During the 1990s and into the 2000s, the tuner car scene was a hot place to be in the worldwide automotive market. What started as a Japanese phenomenon quickly spread across the globe, and numerous gearheads began outfitting their own models with tuner car-like stuff, such as ground effects, off-the-shelf turbochargers, and under glow. By the time the 2000s rolled around, the culture had become much more polished, with many automakers producing their own factory-bred models that required little to no modification to be considered a tuner.
Â