It is common knowledge in the car community that certain styling modifications can result in massive performance gains.
For example, if you paint your car’s brake calipers red, you instantly add 10 hp to the engine. Similarly, if you slap on a big wing, you get F1-levels of downforce and can take corners like a Time Attack car. But, if there is a single styling modification you’re after to achieve maximum performance gains, it has to be installing a fake hood scoop which, in some cases, can add upwards of 50 hp to any car.
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Clearly spurred on by the promise of more power, the owner of the following bright green BMW that was posted on Reddit and which appears to be a regular E90 3-Series, thought fitting a hood scoop would be the way to go to out-accelerate M3s between the lights. Unfortunately for the owner, the hood scoop has been installed backwards which in the tuning world actually reduces horsepower.
You see, whereas a fake hood scoop facing the right way sucks more air into the engine to increase power, a fake hood scoop placed backwards actually sucks air out of the engine bay, eliminating grunt.
Sarcasm aside, the fitment of a hood scoop like this on a 3-Series, no matter if it is backwards or the correct way, looks absolutely ghastly. It may have worked on a Japanese sports car from the early 2000s but styling modifications like this are seriously outdated.
