They probably aren't. Doesn't stop them from existing though. 🤷

They are not legal in the civilised world.

They aren't. There might be places with shitty cops that tolerate them. (Quick search shows this is mostly a Texas thing)

Swangas are among the most fucked up modifications you can do with your car. It's literally not just a "fuck you" to other road users but actively hostile to everyone around you.

Just reflect for a moment what kind of culture can be so deeply submerged in toxic displays of hostility as a form of "swag", "coolness" or "masculinity" as to create something like that. How insecure do you have to be?

Just cause they have them doesn’t make them legal. Cops probably don’t even know so they just let it go

Why would you assume they're legal?

I don't know. Why are semi trucks allowed to have these?

I see them all the time even though they seem like a liability for a professional driver.

There's zero chance these are legal. And even in places where enforcement of such things is lax, is be surprised if this lasted very long, simply because of how crazy dangerous it would be to pedestrians and cyclists.

fun fact I learned, when taking the wheel off of antique or fancy cars you have to hit this part with a lead hammer that deforms with each hit so it doesn't get scratched/damaged. Eventually it gets so deformed that you have to melt it down and mold it back into a hammer shape again.

idk why a rubber mallet wouldn't work but I assume car guys have thought of that before me and there's a reason why they're not used

Didn't mythbusters or top gear do an episode on this type of stuff? Iirc they had two cars do something like this and it ended very poorly for the car with the spikes. I think the wheel ripped itself apart.

I refuse to believe that america is a real place

This seems like a surefire way to get any insurance claim denied for dangerous modification to your car, or something along those lines.

Nothing says idiot loser like these do.

They aren't in any civilised countries, probably land you in prison when you are driving that on any public road in one of those.

That looks like a really expensive accident waiting to happen.

Why would anyone put that on their car?

According to Alexander's tactics in Gaugamela, you first have to wear them down with javelins, and then open ranks to create alleys for them to pass through your infantry, then finish them off with hypaspists. Afterwards, you can charge your cavalry straight to Darius himself and win the battle.

Piece of cake really.

Houston is a weird place.

In short, they often make the car as wide as is street legal. Sometimes they end up being too wide, but "maybe it's too wide but I can't quite tell" doesn't meet probable cause, so the police can only really measure them if they get pulled over for something else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swangas

Oh that’s easy! They’re not :)

Satire become reality if we don't do something after learning about it: https://xkcd.com/3167/

Im sure the driver has absolute zero in social skills.

How does one fit into a parking space?

That looks very much not legal

In the Saints Row series they're called kneecappers and I tried and uninstalled them because they caused too much mayhem. They also appear in the Spy Hunter 1983 coin-op video game

I remember seeing them on Speed Racer used by villains before seeing the chariot race version in Ben Hur.

IRL they're obviously a hazard and inappropriate in traffic where people are just trying to collaboratively get home. (And yes, traffic is a collective cooperative effort, and we see that as soon as someone gets antagonistic.)

But Americans imagine themselves rugged individualists, a component of capitalist propaganda, and like to show they're rebels with shit like rolling coal and truck nuts.

This totally looks like a FAFO moment that is going to turn into a regulatory statute.

Since it's not a firearm, I doubt courts or officials will be interested at all in pursuing second-amendment liberties over this. They seem not to care about knives or ninja gear, either.

Aren‘t vehicles and/or custom parts checked for safety and roadworthiness in the US??? 😱

Nothing a big fat disc padlock and chain can't solve.

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I hope bro likes having to carry bolt cutters in the passenger seat and having to do walk-around inspections every time he comes back to his car.