Here in central Arkansas (yes. in Arkansas) the ricer craze is in full swing. When I was driving from my GF's house one night I stopped at a light and saw four early 90's civic hatchbacks, all wearing the same body kit, all having the same spoiler, all sounding exactly alike! The only different was each one was a different color! Do these guys belong to some kind of 'team' or something? C'mon.

What I'm trying to say is that to me the ricer craze isn't bad, but if you're gonna throw a body kit and stuff on your car, do it on a car that nobody does it to. Yeah. You can consider stuff thrown on a Fiero rice (Fiero5, your son's car is great. It's cool you can do stuff like that for your son), but how many riced out Fieros do you see in one day? Probably a small percentage compared to our 'favorite' import brand (joke).

My daily driver is a '00 Hyundai Sonata, and yeah I threw a glass pack on it and cold air and stuff like that. I'm also working on a completely custom body kit for it. So hopefully when I'm done, I'll have a car with stuff that NOBODY will have. Do I think my Sonata is great? Yeah. Do I think I can outrun stangs and 911s? No. C'mon now. It's just a 2.5 V6

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Here in Minnesota a lot of people have referred to "fart cans" as "GRAPEFRUIT LAUNCHERS".

We also have a lot of people that slam imports and put rims on, but the front camber is sooo bad that the tires immediately wear out, and they put the stock steel wheels with no hub caps back on, but only on the front, leaving the rims on the back. WTF???

Some of these "ricers" will refer to these stock wheels as their "drag tires". Yeah right.

And Why in the He!! would you ever drive around for a year or two with a unpainted body kit on your painted car? Leave it off until you can paint it all!

And lastly, taking every part on the inside and outside off, ei, door handles, gas doors, interior pieces, and painting them with a rattle can a completly different color. I saw a red 2 door civic yesterday with yellow ground effects and door handles. Again WTF?? Ronald McDonald

I guess there is a difference good and bad taste, but at least trying, and NO taste when you just Hack things together to get it done. Most of the ricers I know are not like the Fast & Furious, They are either all show, or they build every thing wrong and they keep blowing up the motor with 30 lbs of boost on a stock civic.

A complete fast and good looking import can be a heck of a car. there is nothing cooler than a 10 second 4 or 6 cylinder that can also corner like crazy. (sounds kind of like the fiero,huh?)

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people around here have the definition messed up I'm considered rice here, guess rims and an exhaust do that. All that stopped as people hear a so called "turbo" whine lol. Yes we have a smart crowd here they can't distinguish between a blower and turbo.

perfect example 92-94 grandam huge aluminum wing I consider that rice, or the same grandam with fart cannons on it.

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hi i can tell you that there are alot of japanese car here, and american cars, that have all the "rice" attributes, i can also tell you it is a fad that knows no racial boundery, i have seen all kinds in different nieghborhoods, mostly young and loud, with those mufflers...................also recently that line about "rice" has been blurred as the new cars are comming out with these "rice" features.........i wonder what fad is next?? .................

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the pinnacle of rice IMO is the "lamarossa" or as was defined in an earlier thread, the "lame-arossa"
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i actually feel bad for the car

I looks to me like a lot of people are geting offending in this thread, seeing as how everyone is use irce as a negative, but in a positive addition, some things that i consider rice, i also have seen to compliment cars very well. so just as PSA, it cant be tackky or classy, but just rember these are all opinions an ways for people to express themselves, and ways for them to follow the croud.

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Ricers are everywhere, we all know this. I think the reason we are all here is because we are obsessed with probably one of the most unique cars in the domestic market. Since this is on the complete opposite side of the spectrum, it makes sense that we dont like ricers. Everyone has there own definition but the reasoning behind it to me seems to be the same.

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The one thing for me that defines rice for me is the people who put stickers or badges from stuff thay don't really have. Like V-Tech badges when it's not, or the Type-R badges. Hell, I guess my car is rice right now since it's a SE but I have the bumper from a 86GT on in so it has the GT logo on the back. Everything else is someone's opinion. Some people like the big fart cans and the goofy looking giant wings. I'll probably be putting a nice dual fart can looking exhaust on my car since I like the 2 larger pipes look better than the quad pipes.

Really I think rice is anything added that's stupid. Stickers for stuff you don't have, a wing that just adds weight, stuff like that. Rice is different for different people. I would be willing to bet that there will be a few people who would think my car is ricey after I'm done with it, but I won't and I'm sure others won't either. It's all in the eye of the beholder... Except for the stickers... The don't give you what they say and don't make you faster for crying out loud!!! If you have some badge or sticker that says you have something and you don't then THAT is rice for sure

-Randy

First: Thank you ALL for your definitions and opinions on what the term "Rice" means today!
Second: I certainly hope no one was offended by anything that has been said in this thread, as they are all simply the OPINIONS of the authors.

When I originally asked for everyone's definition of "Rice" I didn't know it would touch a nerve on so many. Back when I first heard the term (I'm in my late 40's), it was applied to the imported dirt bikes that were taking the country by storm. I am now educated in the modern day use of the word!

After reading your replies it would seem that the most common meaning for the term would be:

"That car is Rice" /means:/ "That is a vehicle that in my own opinion, and according to my own tastes, I just plain don't like"!

I have heard my own '86 2m4 Sport Coupe referred to as "Rice" before, and I was curious as to what the commenter meant. Thanks again to you all, because now I know it was merely his opinion, and just like another part of the human anatomy, everyone has one.

quote Originally posted by ZeroC: Fiero 5 Lol Jk ...But Yeah For Sure ..Car Made To Look Fast But Really Is Not

So... stuff like underbody lights eh? hehe

I love this thread. Great indication of the healthy diversity shown by the forum members. Personnaly, if my stock duke qualifies as a ricer, looks fast (or may once have) and runs slow, then that's GM's fault. Otherwise, I surmise it doesn't qualify. But that '64 Buick Special that I bought in my youth and outfitted with mag wheels and raised suspension might have. Again, I love this thread because I too wondered what exactly was meant by the term " ricer". Thanks Trekker.

to me ricer = all show no go non domestic car, to me a fiero could never be a ricer even if i put 45 inch wheels 10 inch wide coffee can, spoiler the size of a house or w/e on it, because it is a domestic car, besides, most fiero owners either do an engine swap, or they make the stock engine push some power. well thats how i see it, lata everyone

---Tim--- 85 Sport Coupe 2.5 86 SE 2.8

Seems to me that the term ricer is usually refering to a modded compact type sedan i.e. civic. Only in the last few years is it also being applied to american cars such as the cavalier. As mentioned earlier in this thread it is a style treatment more than anything else but some ricers do back it up with serious horsepower. I haven't heard anyone refer to turbo supras or RX 7s and 8s as ricers. As for fieros being ricers - I have seen some that incorporate a few ricer mods but none with the decals and fartcans that go with a ricer.

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quote Originally posted by Boonch: most fiero owners either do an engine swap, or they make the stock engine push some power.

And what brought you to that conclusion? I would think that just the opposite is the case and that the most Fiero owners run stock motors with butt-dyno "mods" like air cleaners and spark plug wires and most of them are happy that their car starts and runs every time it's called upon to do so. Some claim that their cars are a vast improvement over stock without ever seeing a real dyno before or after their mods.

To me if you're running around slamming other peoples rides JUST BECAUSE of the country of origin, well then you're a poser whether you're a Euro snob, JDM snob, or Domestic snob. Effin' poser.

I think that rice has to do with the persons attitude as much as the car. The guy that thinks his civic hatch back is going to smack my friends 97 TA WS6 because the Cold air tube is worth like 30 hp at least. And then when the moment of truth comes he backs down because he doesn't feel like racing tonight. There is a difference between someone that mods a few things which makes the car look nice, and someone that has to have every little thing they sell at wallmart stuck to thier car. Yes, it is a way of self expression and they have a right to do it. I also, have a right, to laugh at them. Rims are not always rice. A fart can is not always rice. A NOS sticker and no NOS kit.... that is rice.

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