As far as lowering, I will agree to a point that a lowered car can look great, and it's amazing what a lowering of even one inch can to to the right car.
However, be aware that lowered cars (and 20" rims) can give you a lot of problems with the quality of the ride, steering, tire wear, bottoming, and more. Some lowered vehicles are hardly driveable, and the driver has to be wary of every single little imperfection in the road, much less speed bumps etc.
For my GP, I plan to put wide rims on the back and old school tires like N-50 series. We used to put tires like that on the back and then put air shocks on to raise the car enough to clear the tires, as the tires stick out. It's a great look on the right car - and looks particularly good on GP's. So I plan to do the same thing, air shocks are cheap and easy to install and they don't really ruin the ride and are the easiest way to raise the back - and on these cars, I would say that it is the best way to do it. I pump them up just enough to clear the tires. Although they can go even higher, it looks stupid. I've even seen people put air shocks on the back and jack the rear up - with stock tires. Please don't ever do that.
This gives the car a nice rake and will push the front down a little bit too. If I still feel that the front is too high, I will drop it 1/2" or 1" if necessary. You would be surprised - a 1" suspension drop translates to looking like more than one inch on the car. 2" is quite a lot and by the time you get to 2" you are talking major work to do it properly.
And doing this type of work properly is essential, there are lots of cheap ways to drop cars, like filling the trunk with bags of cement, and having a bunch of people stand on the hood while you chain the suspension down (I've seen this) but there are only a couple of ways to do it right and they involve purchasing new springs and other parts to provide the proper ride and frame geometry, rather than just cutting things. When you cut a spring, you completely change and sometimes ruin its rate of compression and rebound. You can cut springs to do a 1/2" lowering, or even put cheap clamps on the front springs to drop the car 1/2", without too much loss and keep a decent ride - but not 2". Even 1". I would advise that any lowering of the vehicle that will exceed 1", and any lowering PERIOD if you want to do it properly, will involve having it done professionally by someone who understands frame geometry and can have it drive properly and ride almost as good and will also involve buying parts that are made especially for lowered cars.
You can lower your car 3" for fifty bucks - and it will ride and drive like it too.
And remember - when you add things like 20" rims that have tires with hardly any sidewall, you are compounding the ride problems, although possibly not affecting frame geometry if the overall height of the rim/tire is the same as what was one there before, when you had tires with a full sidewall. But the ride will be seriously compromised by having no sidewall.
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