Visual Definition Of Rat Look

[SoundillusioN]

Because of another thread I decided to post the following..  Never sure on rat look motors but I'm fine with it if it makes sense.

An old battered looking car that has had its knackered look exaggerated, fine,  or it could be an old car with bad paint that has been made to look worse than it is rather than making it shiny, also fine.  But rusty bonnets on an otherwise shiny car, or rat looking a perfectly fine looking vechile or even worse a modern vehicle, WTF is with that? 

What does rat look mean?  I thought it was something derived from hot rods, old cars made mechanically sound but look rough on purpose because it suits them due to their age.

If you "rat look" a shiny newish car, you are probably a tw@t.

These are rats:











These are not, they are just ****

[scarr89]

That bottom one is literally the worst thing ever 

[lemski]

My mk2s rat. Done cos lack of funds. Not cos I wanted to juSt cos I didn't have the funds

[SoundillusioN]

My mk2s rat. Done cos lack of funds. Not cos I wanted to juSt cos I didn't have the funds

You are forgiven... no disrespect but your car isn't shiny all over, you have lack of funds and your car is old, so it makes much more sense than buying something like a mk5, making a plastic bumper look rusty and stripping the paint off the bonnet, white walling it's tyres and strapping sh*t to it's roof, then polishing the rest of the car... etc etc etc.

[lemski]

When I got my three door it was shiney. Just don't like red. If I had a mk5 I wouldn't rat it. Seems pointless. Even in 15years when there how old a mk2 is now it wouldn't suit it because there not made to look that way. Its like getting and old porsche and ratting it. You just dont

[DanChave]

I still like the mk5 And the mk1's! Not the mk3 though............

[Wayne]

That mk5 looks daft, way too new to pull off the rat look.

[tweed]

I dont believe in rat look.
a car turns into a rat over age. Paint fading, dents, etc that dont get fixed because owner doesnt care about the car.

rat look cars that are made to look like that are sh!te and pointless.

[jamie_pyrite]

I dont believe in rat look.
a car turns into a rat over age. Paint fading, dents, etc that dont get fixed because owner doesnt care about the car.

rat look cars that are made to look like that are sh!te and pointless.

My view was that rat cars get like that through fading, dents, etc. that the owner doesn't bother to fix because he spends all his time and money on how it drives (ie. hot rod era rat-ish cars that were faster than most on the roads)

[travisreeve]

I hate forced rat.. If its not mad max rat it just aint working

and the word ' rat ' isent that what chavs say to gorgeous women ' get ya rat out '... Yeah mate its parked round the corner you wana have a look