Having an identity crisis: pls. describe a "ricer" for me

[piaadoll]

a ricer to me......................in a short summary is:

"a grody looking, eyes sore of a ghetto fart can with certain body parts (spoiler, body kit, etc.) painted a different color than the car or not at all, and crazy shopping cart wing. "

and most of them come with a helping of attitude.


*shrug*

[DGS4]

A ricer: A person who puts a product on their vehicle that serves no purpose.

IE: Bodykit, Turbo kit with a full built motor on a show car chromed out, BBK with no intentions or uses of using it ever on a track, Racing seats on a street car, etc etc.

[Devious27t]

Originally posted by DGS4
A ricer: A person who puts a product on their vehicle that serves no purpose.

IE: Bodykit, Turbo kit with a full built motor on a show car chromed out, BBK with no intentions or uses of using it ever on a track, Racing seats on a street car, etc etc.

that describes more than half of the S4 owners out there lol. [:p] j/k

[RetroSpek.com]

if not more.

[piaadoll]

DOH!

[VRsic]

Basically any tuner without taste.

[piaadoll]

that's true, but that's all relative. hmmm.

[RippleChip]

Stock base model Civic with fart can and huge aluminium spoiler off the back.

[VRsic]

Originally posted by piaadoll
that's true, but that's all relative. hmmm.

That's true. And thats why I beleive the term "ricer" is just like saying a car is "fast". Fast compared to what? But it's mostly japanese cars that have big wings, huge body kits, glowing shit and useless things like a TV in the steering wheel.

Even if that car cost 100K to build, it's still a ricer to me.

[Devious27t]

if i had to take a shot at this VERY BROADLY USED cliche term. I would venture to say that a ricer is someone that uses poorly engineered, low quality parts to try and make their car something it is not. they do things before they have the funds to follow through with them. and they drive like assholes weaving through traffic and revving on anything more than a minivan.

people in the audi world use this term too much imo. if it doesnt fit the conformist audi guidelines of have having german suspension, BBS wheels and overly expensive odds and ends it considered rice which is total bullshit. (maybe a little over the top but you get the point)

[dukez]

Having an identity crisis: pls. describe a "ricer" for me

Your OTHER car. [eek][;)]

[DGS4]

Originally posted by DVS18t
if i had to take a shot at this VERY BROADLY USED cliche term. I would venture to say that a ricer is someone that uses poorly engineered, low quality parts to try and make their car something it is not. they do things before they have the funds to follow through with them. and they drive like assholes weaving through traffic and revving on anything more than a minivan.

You can have the best parts on your car an still be a ricer. A ricer chooses form over function. Actually scratches function out of their dictionary. It can be anyone. From the kid in the 84 Corolla to the guy in the 996 Porsche.

[piaadoll]

Originally posted by dukez
Your OTHER car. [eek][;)]


oh dukey!! there you go again! trying to get a reaction off me huh????


[:(]

LOL.

[quattro30v]

a Civic with a RalliArt decal and a Lancer with a Mugen badge! [:D]

basically people with no taste and know nothing about thier cars... yeah installing unpainted/primered body kits, big a$$ APC windshield decal like they are sponsored by APC when they only bought a single bulb with APC brand [;)]

[Devious27t]

Originally posted by DGS4
You can have the best parts on your car an still be a ricer. A ricer chooses form over function. Actually scratches function out of their dictionary. It can be anyone. From the kid in the 84 Corolla to the guy in the 996 Porsche.

there is a difference between someone with shitloads of money and poor taste and a ricer.... first of all the ricer term does not go with 996 porsche in the same sentence unless you are saying that 996 porsches cannot be ricer....

first of all ricer infers one thing: japanese car....

[Devious27t]

Originally posted by quattro30v
a Civic with a RalliArt decal and a Lancer with a Mugen badge! [:D]

basically people with no taste and know nothing about thier cars... yeah installing unpainted/primered body kits, big a$$ APC windshield decal like they are sponsored by APC when they only bought a single bulb with APC brand [;)]

here is someone who knows what the **** they are talking about.

[DGS4]

I've seen a very distasteful 996 in my time and it would definitely qualify as rice. But alot of you are naming basic fundamentals to what rice may be.

If you want to relate rice to Japanese, then fine, go to any HIN, HID, IShowoff - Look around. You'll see a shitload of people with some very nice turbo setups, you'll see some people with setups that will make alot of people go holy shit. But if none of those guys can sport a timeslip or some sort of function to go with their nice setup, then they're no better than the guy with the unpainted body kit. THATS what I mean.

Alot of you are narrowing down to the fact that a person with a Maxwell coffee can exhaust tip that sounds like a donkey moaning to a horse bang, and a body kit that looks like it will eat your children and plow your snow in the winter is rice. But theres more to that, that many of you fail to realize.

[Rieger_RS4]

how can any car other then asian qualify as rice? Diff people have diff tastes and some cars we refer to as "rice" are actually quite nice.

things that qualify that I have seen personally is cars with unpainted bodylits and stock 14" wheels with a huge aluminum wing and a GT-R next to an "H"

[A Foore]

You guys wanna know the real term and how that term got made? Here's the link to the originator of "Rice".

http://www.riceboypage.com/

[piaadoll]

oh no! they're using a EK hatchie as icon their site. no good no good!

i admit though, i didn't know a thing about offsets (or their importance) until i came to audizine....

uuum and uuum (embarrased to ask) what's an APC?

[:D]

[Foos Girl]

APC are those aftermarket parts they sell at pep-boys.....they are yucky [;)]

[audia]

APC = American Power Conversion Corp.
* you may be familiar with it as a "surge protector."

OR...

APC = American Product Company
* inexpensive automotive brand sold at your local pepboys or autozone.

back to topic... i would categorize an A4 with S line badge as Rice.
BMW 325 with M badge as rice. and so on.

basically, fooling yourself and others that your car is fast.

[jones3000]

Originally posted by audia403
APC = American Power Conversion Corp.
* you may be familiar with it as a "surge protector."

OR...

APC = American Product Company
* inexpensive automotive brand sold at your local pepboys or autozone.

back to topic... i would categorize an A4 with S line badge as Rice.
BMW 325 with M badge as rice. and so on.

basically, fooling yourself and others that your car is fast.

I agree but also disagree. Putting a badge on your car when it's not is just posing, but not ricey. Ricey is when there is no rhyme or reason why you did what you did to your car. I've seen some official looking civics though Hondas have a bad name especially due to what kids do to their CRX's. But on the other hand, who cares what anyone else thinks? It's your car and it's just a piece of metal that takes lives.<<<reality check.

[Devious27t]

Originally posted by ImportRacer
You guys wanna know the real term and how that term got made? Here's the link to the originator of "Rice".

http://www.riceboypage.com/

got rice bitch? got rice? lol that link is classic i remember that from like 6 years ago....

[HotSauce]

There's tuners, and ricers.

A tuner's modifications, could have easily come from the factory (I forgot who said this, but I love it). Tasteful, conservative, elegant.

A ricer's modifications were probobly made out of last nights chicken noodle soup and duck tape. Their modifications appear to add performance, where in truth, they serve no purpose. (See: Exhaust Tip). Gaudy, distasteful, Honda.

I'm sorry...Did I just say that? [:p]

[/\G]

Originally posted by RippleChip
Stock base model Civic with fart can and huge aluminium spoiler off the back.

who bought all APC parts and puts the sticker on the window to prove it

[D0WNxSH1FT]

to me a car is rice if it does not meet all of these criteria...
a) perform a functional part of the performance/safety of the vehicle. b) increase the asthetics of the vehicle. c) fit as if stock.

if any of these are not there, then its Rice. But if the car looks good, and the parts do what there supposed too, ie real FMIC, or large rear spoiler (on RWD/AWD, ie Evo doesnt look dumb w/ the whale tail, but a Kia Rio would).

Also, stickers come into play in two ways. a) your sponsored and are in HIN, SEMA, or a Magazine shoot then there fine. or b) you have a K&N air filter, and a Super Street subscription so lets put the decals on...thats rice.

[piaadoll]

speaking of decals, some peeps called my a4 a ricer for all my decals...when i'm just helping my homies with marketing...

audizine
craftwerx concepts
supreme power parts
and my SN....

so yeah, i admit i have 7 decals (i'll be removing 3) anyone can call me a ricer if they want.

that means saturnine john is a ricer too! heh heh!

[:D]

[lilFLATLINE]

yeah but johns a pimp so that makes it diff

[dramaticstatic]

The best way I've ever heard it.
There are 3 types of people who customize their cars.

The first type tries to make their car fast, things such as upgraded turbos chips, funtional exhaust.

The second type tries to make their cars look good. These people get custom paint jobs and interiors. Granted these mods are most often horrific looking but it's not rice.

The third type, the 'ricers', are those who try to make their cars look fast. They add stuff to make their car look faster than it is like a type r sticker, a big wing on a front wheel drive car or say debadging a stock a4 and putting an s4 sticker on it, or even putting a vendor's or company's sticker on a car without actually having that company's or vendor's product. Anything done to make a car look faster than it really is, ladies and gentlemen is rice.

[[]D[][]V[][]D]

haha-maybe so


Originally posted by dukez
Your OTHER car. [eek][;)]

[DRA4]

A ricer is, my stupid ex girlfriend with her Acura Integra LS with an intake, thinking she could beat me on the highway, i left her so far, she had to call me on the cell phone to reach me.[:D]

[buck]

I agree, 'rice' is pretending and/or adding non-functional distasteful mods.

A big petpeeve is false badging. I've seen guys drop B18's into their Integra's and toss on a type r sticker and actually make them selves (and try to convince others) that they are driving a type r.

[canadian_driver]

asian cars with altezza lights, if u got that, u got a ricer

[D0WNxSH1FT]

unless its a Lexus IS300, Mitsu Evo, Mitsu Lancer Ralliart...or basically unless its stock (and even then people are replacing them w/ all red or modified lights)