ok, guys...don't roll your eyes
 

:roll: but will someone please define 'ricer' for me...

i see those type of hondas on the road daily and others that are similar (those truly obnoxious wings, lower than usual, funky colors/decals, etc) but what exactly is the term ricer and how did it come to be? i hear it so often referred to on this forum by a lot of you who respond regularly, so please educate me. thanks guys.

bonster
alabaster autostick

Because most of them are Japanese cars. :D

A ricer is a person that buys a lesser expensive car like a Honda, Acura, Nissan, or Mitsubishi, etc. and then buys modifications for it such as engine mods to increase performance or body kits to make their car look more distinctive. Ricer isn't exactly a look, but more of an attitude. Most ricers believe their car to be speed rockets because of what they've done to it or because of the way they make it look. A ricer usually has little idea of what he's actually doing and will generally buy the largest exhaust pipe available to make his car sound louder.

It's really more about the look and sound of the car than the actual performance.

If that didn't explain it well enough then I could go more indepth or try a different angle on the topic. A person can modify their car without being a ricer. But the term ricer came about because it refered to smaller Japanese made cars that were less expensive that people on a budget could buy and try to make faster.

LOL at least your being educated on this... I was un-aware of a few of these things till only a week ago...

A ricer is defined as someone who tries to show off a JDM car by adding different performance products or visuals... such as body kits, lights, stickers, high pitched mufflers.

but now supposively its okay for someone to own a JDM car and can not be called a ricer as long as they dont do these things to them... I dont believe that... I think if you own a Rx8, Rx7, GT-R, NSX, RSX... and pretty much anything that are AMAZING JDM cars... you are still a ricer... because its made in Japan... much like someone calling our cars a krout car... cuz well its made in germany... im not gonna say... *annoying voice* well its not really cuz its american designed... its german.. its a krout car...

back to the fact of ricers... I think those cars are beauitful! I make fun of them all the time... but truely they are SWEET cars... I dont care if you take your old grandmas civic add a kmart muffler and put a spoiler on it the side of a VW bug... THATS YOUR CAR! and you put effort into it! gratz! ... but dont be surprised if i make fun of it!

so non-politically correct a "ricer" is anything made outta Japan...
PC its taking a JDM and making it look flashy!

now when your talking about a neon... or a cavalier... and they add that stuff too it... its call "stupid" ... j/k :) its called "euro'ing" or as referred to us before on this forum "Uncle Ben'ing" because there is american rice and its called Uncle Ben's rice... but IMO ... doing something like this to an american car deserves a big old "middle finger" to the driver... i dont care if they added $20,000 to their cavalier... that was stupid of them...

So i hope this helps! like I said ... I'm in complete support of Rice'ing... just not doing things to a cavalier...

and the quote that I use... "over night parts from japan" its from the leader in america of this movement... Fast and the Furious...

you kind of have it...

the ricers have the body kits, paint jobs, decals, wings, big exhaust tips etc...

the point is that the car does not go any faster it just has junk on it that has no worth to the performance of the vechicle. The sad part is that you may see someone with a carbon fiber hood with greddy turbo graphic and even see the boot dial in the car. But it is all show and there is no turbo. People like this are the worst of the bunch and ruin it for the Japanese "tuners".

The true tuner car will actually have major modifications under the hood to make a car move really fast, rather than just trying to make to car look faster like the ricers will. Somtimes it is hard to tell the difference, but normally a 3rd gen RX-7 will be a tuner car becasue it already hauled butt from the factory. For this reason I pretty much put them all in the same "Ricer" genre as I am sure many others do, besides a guy with a ricer will tell you he has a tuner car anyways.

Here is the best web site on the planet if you want to get a good laugh and get the whole picture of how bad people do rice out cars...

www.ricecop.com

-marc

I define rice, along with most other non-bigotous people, as distasteful modifications to an Asian car, especially that do not actually or noticeably increase performance. This is a perfect example of what I would consider rice:

http://www.ricecop.com/viewpic.php?p...plecivic-2.jpg

I do not consider many cars to be rice direct from the factory, but the Mazda RX8 and Lexuses I consider to be rice. The most distinctive sign of rice is altezza taillights: taillights with the reflective chrome look around them.

Re: ok, guys...don't roll your eyes
 

really, the term started with motorcycles. back in the 60's, harley riders were not the rich doctors, lawyers etc that they are today and they disparaged the japanese bikes by calling them rice-burners. of course, they had to say that while they were sitting on the curb trying to fix their bikes, or at least get them to run. times have changed now and harley davidson does make a very fine mid-60's motorcycle :lol: :lol:

the japanese, of course, never made one that ran on rice. water, tho, is still possible :shock:

dan...why do harley riders travel in packs??? someone has to go for parts!!

ricer
 

Did you know that if you post on the Edmund's board and use the term 'ricer', your post will be deleted and you will get a notice from Edmund's so stating? They feel it is an insulting term.

I remember in the 80's people called small gas-saving japanese cars "Rice Burners". Usually people who resented people buying those cars called them that. There was a bumper sticker I used to see back then saying "Hungry? Out of work? Eat Your Rice Burner"

Since then the kids started customizing Civics, Eclipses and such just to get attention and it got so crazy that they were looking goofy with stickers, huge tails and low profile tires with large wheels and now lambo doors. :roll:


https://www.ricecop.com/ricepics/yellow_wtf-3.jpg



https://www.ricecop.com/ricepics/sultan_lude.jpg

thanks everyone for taking time to reply... wow, who would have thought (but i'll settle for wes' simplistic reply, no more than i really need to know i guess...but just as much, an education to say the least!) - i'll certainly know and appreciate those posts more and when to laugh appropriately. thanks much and safe travels everyone. bonster

A ricer for me is someone who thinks his lawnmower is a sportscar :lol:

I live in Miami so we have alot of ricers...

We classify ricers as people that have all hondas except s2000s, all nissans except 350zs and skylines(very few of those), all mazdas except rx8 and the good rx7s, all toyotas except the supra. But only the ones that have stickers all over, go-cart exhaust, some body kits. Some are sweet! Basically people that think their car is fast but it isn't!

S2000
350z
Supra
Rx8
Are all rarely riced out...Body kits and parts for these cars usually are clean and look sweet and usually help the car in performance.

We don't call ricers "ricers" we call them morons!!!!!

LOL nice summation Cyril!

The worst kinda ricer is 100% the american ricer... its the cavaliers, sunfires, neons... that is what makes me angry... and lately... F'ing alero's!!! WHY AN ALERO!!! ... :evil: