---
title: "Extremely Stanced Car Goes for a Drive, Gets Stuck Crossing Flat Intersection"
description: "Uploaded to Facebook, the clip shows an early-2000's S15 Nissan Silvia—popular with Japanese car fans, but still technically banned for road use in America—trying valiantly to navigate a treacherously flat intersection in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee."
date: "2018-10-08"
modified: "2018-10-08"
authors:
  - name: "Kyle Cheromcha"
    job_title: "Editor-in-Chief"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/kyle-cheromcha"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/24102/extremely-stanced-car-goes-for-a-drive-gets-stuck-crossing-flat-intersection"
categories:
  - "Culture"
  - "News"
  - "Watch This"
tags:
  - "nissan silvia"
  - "Slammed"
  - "stanced"
  - "Stuck"
  - "Tennessee"
---

# Extremely Stanced Car Goes for a Drive, Gets Stuck Crossing Flat Intersection

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Stanced. Slammed. Hellaflush. Whatever your preferred nomenclature, the practice of taking otherwise usable, capable cars and [lowering them to mere micrometers](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/7604/h2oi-and-the-stanced-movement-point-to-the-future-of-car-culture>) above the pavement always [inspires strong reactions](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/8990/slammed-cars-make-great-lawn-ornaments>) in the automotive world. Some see an unadulterated expression of style and passion, while others think it utterly ruins the car. Guess which camp this clip supports?

Uploaded to Facebook last week, [the video shows](<https://www.facebook.com/christivnr/videos/1968858213152215/>) an early-2000's S15 [Nissan Silvia](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/10358/check-out-this-ridiculous-quad-turbo-2jz-s14-nissan-silvia-in-japan>)—popular with Japanese car fans, but still technically banned for road use in America—trying valiantly to navigate a treacherously flat intersection in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee. Unlike other schadenfreude-laced videos featuring struggling stanced cars, there doesn't appear to be an obstacle or an obvious clearance issue in this case. But it's stuck all the same.

The rear-wheel-drive Silvia is done in here by its rigid suspension setup and an open rear differential. The road surface slopes just enough to lift the left rear wheel off the ground, since basically all suspension travel has been eliminated in lowering the car like that. The engine's power then follows to the path of least resistance thanks to the open diff—in this case, the excessively-cambered wheel now dangling less than an inch above the roadway.

The video shows two men trying their best to help the driver, alternating between sitting in the open trunk to force the raised wheel down onto the ground and pushing the poor Silvia. Neither strategy appears to work, though getting stuck seems to be part of the fun for stance fans. The clip was uploaded by a friend of the driver named Christian Raper, who captioned it "the proper way to end a photoshoot."

A trailer might have been a little more proper (and legal), but we'll give the driver credit for at least trying to show that stanced cars can still drive.

## Author
Overseeing an expert staff of writers and editors from his lair in Los Angeles, Kyle shapes The Drive’s singular approach to covering the automotive industry and car culture. He’s been with the site as a writer since 2017, taking over as editor in 2019. On a daily basis, Kyle is responsible for directing The Drive's editorial news and car review content strategies, setting special coverage priorities, managing complex reporting projects, and ensuring what you read on the page meets our high internal standards for quality and trustworthiness. He is also the executive producer of The Drive's YouTube channel, which was relaunched in February 2024 to great acclaim and has accumulated over 14M new views in its first year back on the scene. He hosts a biweekly series on the channel where he breaks down fascinating and complicated stories from the automotive world.

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