WHAT HAPPENED TO NFS GAMES!?!

It's EA f'ng up that's what happened!

As said above, customizing cars is gone for awhile...sure there are ways to customize a good car...but really, all things a high sports car, old school US muscle or SUV needs is a fresh paint and maybe a set of luxury rims - nothing else.

Wise words - the high car classes don't need all the tuning shit, most people (who customize in video games) don't have a sense for style and just go crazy on such cars and make a red hot ferrari look like it drove thru skittles rainbow or the commercial itself whatever is funnier - skittles rain?

Aside that, even low end to average mid class vehicles get a fresh and sportish interior and exterior design for some years now - (over) intense visual customization loses its position.

There are two reasons:

1. There's no need to customize such cars
2. The companies don't want people to customize their cars - even tho its virtual, due to the promotion situation it could influence its real status of the brand resulting people think they sell their license for everything but cheap things and allow others to do cheap and awkward things on those cars.

The second reason, can be applied to any product, mostly with a status.

Sure, you don't need to customize cars, and not everyone wants to- But being able to makes the game better.

Everyone who makes their car look like skittles is either some little kid, someone who is trying to make a statement by declaring themself an idiot, or some guy who is over a mile high.

Companies like Toyota, Chevy, etc. don't really care if their cars are customized, they sell a lot anyway, but Lamborghini and other companies that make exotic cars have realized it doesn't matter if their cars are customized because people who play NFS are either 5-20 year-olds who want to feel like they can go fast or 30+ year olds who dream of driving cars that fast even though they never will. In other words, people who play NFS don't drive those cars, so it won't really have an influence on customizing a Lamborghini.

Yeah, you don't need customization to have a good game but it definitely enhances the experience. Customization never died, it just transitioned from scissor doors, neons , and 20"s to some worse ( Stance, stickerbomb, drift missiles, etc. ) and some better looking styles. And more and more people are adding modern technology like coilovers, disc brakes, aftermarket head units, power steering, refined gauges and similar things to old muscle cars instead of just restoring them or putting fat tires in the back and tossing a supercharger under the hood.  What EA should do in the upcoming NFS is have different visual customization options for the different cars. Leave tuners' options pretty open, same with muscles and SUV's/trucks if they add them. Then luxury sedans and sports cars/modern muscles should have afew less options, and then the high roller things like Lamborghinis and Porsches should be pretty limited. Like, there might be one or 2 bodykits but they're not ricey, they're going to give them the DTM/ JGTC look, or they're going to look like another model of the same brand ( Ex: If the Koenigsegg CCX doesn't look good enough to you and they don't have an agera, make a kit that looks like the Agera in some ways but not 100%. If they have a Diablo SV and you wanted a Diablo VT, there's a kit for that. ) And there should be rims and interior if they decide to do that. 

I do agree with the thing sports should be simple. My Lambourghini Gallardo from Carbon has a small spoiler (a roule of mine in customising), a dual aerodinamic roof scop (like them, no idea why), the stock hood (trident locked), a blue paint, green little stripes from the nose to the bottom, green rims and green windows. You can find it in the tread "Show your NFS cars" if you are curious. I love customising. That's me. DEAL WITH IT. B-)

I always wanted the body kit idea you are talking about to be in an NFS game, but I want it to be more than body kits :

I like the taillights on the older Gallardo. If they have the newer Gallardo, I want to be able to put the old taillights on that.

And there should be individual front bumpers, not just wide bodies or body kits. It would be best to have 1 body kit that replicates a similar car (if there is one), a body kit like a stratospeed widebody, and then some absolutely craaaaazzy body kit that exotic guys hate and ricers love.

Everyone has their own style but isn't it just like that, that really over - customizing a luxury car is just awkward there shouldn't be such things for choice!?

The smaller things on those cars make the bigger but good differences, an individual paint is all I need for those cars - and for the true-to-me I get fancy rims and the choice of interior design (color, type, material).

In case someone doesn't know what I mean with interior design, if someone here ever played Test Drive Unlimited (1), that's what I mean with material, type and colors changes - based on car companies's variations.