This is my 2001 Hyundai Tiburon SE that i bought brand new on June 15th 2001. For more pics and a list of my modifications go to page 2. My buddy had just bought a black 2001 Grand Am, and i liked the idea of a black car. You see my car now and you can't beat the look of BLACK and CHROME. It came fully loaded with all the options except for the $700(cdn) leather interior option which i didn't want, and the automatic transmission $1000(cdn)which i also didn't want. So that considered, i'd say my car is fully loaded. lol. It has the power sunroof, 4 wheel disc brakes, power windows, air, cruise, tilt, CD, etc... the usual.
The reason the car is nicknamed "Tiburcon" is because of the purple scale-sized Transformers Decepticon decal on the sunroof. If you are an old school Transformers fan or know about the Transformers cartoon, you would know that Decepticons were the bad guys, and some of them were cars. The TiburCon looks kinda mean like a cool evil black sports car.

I had my old classic V-8 car, and i wanted to buy a new car. So being a car guy i wanted something to drive daily that got good mileage but also sporty looking. I can't just drive some plain 4 door. Hyundai's Tiburon was super sweet looking and more reasonably priced then Integra's, Celica's, Mustang's etc.. Plus i also knew that Hyundai had come a long way since it's rusty little Pony's and Excel's. To this day i am still happy i bought it, and i don't plan on selling it anytime soon.
Just like my other car i had to modify it and give it my own personal touch. I'm far from being finished with it too. I chose these Limited rims cause they are very BLING looking. Too many Tuners have aluminum, gun metal, or black rims, and if they get chrome they are just spoked sporty rims. I wanted rims that get really noticed, the ones that blind you on a sunny day.

Chrome maybe the hardest rim to keep looking clean due to dust and rain etc... but when chrome is clean you can't beat the look. They are similar to the Lexani style of rims and I have people come up to me and saying "NIce DUBS man". I do not plan on getting a bodykit for a few reasons: 1) I live in a place where winter gets cold and causes potholes in the spring. My car is already lowered 2 inches less then the already fairly low Tiburon stock height, and the last thing i need is to have a bodykit crack when i hit a pothole. 2) I have never really seen a Tibby body kit i liked a lot. The 2000-01 Tiburon looks wild enough without one. The few i kinda liked, my freinds all hate, so i am not gonna roll around in a car that my closest friends think looks crappy.
My cousin has a black 2000 Honda Civic 2 door and he is my cruising buddy. Our cars are very much alike, Black 2 doors, chrome rims, low profile tires, lowered with coilovers, chrome tipped custom exhaust, euro taillights, chrome license plate frames that say "Civic" or "Tiburon", strut bars, and personalized plates. His girlfriend got him plates that say SHOWOFF, which really describes both of us as we are proud of our rides and we drive like it. We drive in lower gears around people to make our cars louder, and anything to get attention. Also anything one of us gets the other has to get it so i needed plates, i decided on max 7 letters SHOWSTR (showster) which looks so neat when they roll together. They look so sweet cruising side by side down city streets or on the highway. Our cars really have the SHOW now, all we need is more GO. I can still whoop a fair bit of cars actually. I have been surprised when i beat a newer Grand Am GT, and when i kept almost redlining my car and stayed neck and neck with a 2003 Mustang GT until we caught traffic. I am planning on putting in a Turbo eventually, and more performance stuff, now that i have the looks i want. I do really want a Xenon HID kit as i find those newer luxury cars to be so nice at night.
Perhaps one of the nicest mods on my car according to people, other then my rims, is my custom dual exhaust. Since before i was old enough to drive, i always loved old V-8 American cars from the 50s to 70s. I got into Import Tuners around the time i bought this car in 2001. It is a whole different ballgame, but one thing i always liked is a dual exhaust system. 2 tailpipes or tips sticking out is TWICE as NICE. Most Tuners have one tailpipe or usually one stainless steel muffler with a tip attached at the end of the system. After seeing the newer 2003+ Tiburons it inspired me to go dual. With an inline 4 you can't run 2 pipes, but you can split one pipe into a "Y" design like even the V-8 Camaro's and Firebirds used to do. So i had a local exhaust shop build my exhaust system splitting the pipe after the rear axle, and installing two 4inch stainless steel tips that tucked and fit nicely in the OEM tip cut out on the bumper. I had them cut the bumper's other side for the other tip. It is lower restriction too as from the catalytic converter back there is no muffler, just pipe and tips which give it a deeper throatier sound then most Tuners. It sounds no where near like a V-8 exhaust, but it barks quite loud and sounds like a 4 cylinder muscle car if that were possible.
For more pics and a list of my modifications go to page 2.