Now this could seem a very simple issue but bear with me a moment.

Now a good buddy of mine is somone alot of guys will brand a rice burner. His machine is a 1988 CRX thats seen about 6K sink into suspension to put him at about a G of lateral acceleration and atleast another grand to put his cheesy little motor in the range of pulling him in a high 12 seconds on pump gas. Now He's running no bodykit, no fartcan, no ugly ass wheels. Is this rice, the guy spends more time tweaking his suspension and braking bias than alot of guys do working on their rigs and ontop of that he's done all the work himself. Does the fact that its a japanese car make it rice, or is it something else?

Ok heres another situation..

Guy has a brand new Blazer with 15K from mommy and daddy invested in the suspension. He knows jack shit, hasnt ever done any of the work except to add a fartcan. He's a moron on the trail too, hitting stuff too fast and nearly causing accidents as he tries to tailgate other drivers into going faster than they really feel comfortable. Oh yeah and lets not forget the 5K in stereo and the blue headlights and the fugly clear tailights. Now is that rice?

Does the driver or the truck/car determine rice? My buddy and his CRX, I dont concider that rice. He's respectful, takes out his needs on the track and doesnt tear ass through neighborhoods at 3am. To me its the driver. To me its the jerk who doesnt know jack about what he's doing and had mommy or daddy pay for everything thats the riceboy. To me the whole thing is attitude, did you modify it to have everyone gawk at you or to pass everyone.

ahwell theres my .02

Umm...

I think the real issue here is.....
WHO CARES?

http://www.boomspeed.com/bozx/wiener.jpg

i agree 100%

my buddy raced bmw's and neons...thats not rice that is real racing! that would be like calling rally cross rice! i would drive one of those cars if it did not have the fat can. hell they are fun to drive. it is when a 16 year old with a 15K is wheels and stickers that makes the 1% of the real guys look gay. same goes for wheeling. i can count a million dumbass rednecks that know jack about wheeling and give it a bad name....

Originally posted by KaceCoyote
Now a good buddy of mine is somone alot of guys will brand a rice burner. His machine is a 1988 CRX blah blah blah...Does the fact that its a japanese car make it rice, or is it something else?


To me a ricer is a typically asian car that is all decked out (or at least posing as) for street racing (muscle cars, BMW's, and the like excluded). some don't have that annoying chineese fart sounding exhaust, and some do. some have all the :rainbow: bodykits, and some don't. IMO, the definition of a ricer is an asian style car, go fast style and more often than not extremely :rainbow: .

Originally posted by KaceCoyote
Guy has a brand new Blazer with 15K from mommy and daddy invested in the suspension.... He's a moron on the trail too, hitting stuff too fast and nearly causing accidents as he tries to tailgate other drivers into going faster than they really feel comfortable.

My $.02 on this guy is he's an asshat. rice, no...asshat who belongs in a ricer and not a 4x4, yes.

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

I'd go by the definition setup by perhaps the worlds authority on Rice, Brian Hong at the Riceboypage.com (http://www.riceboypage.com). The Riceboy page is the longest running and most extensive documentation (and extensive ridiculing) of the Ricer Culture.

There, you'll find that the accepted definition is:
Who/What Exactly Is a Rice-Boy?
Rice-Boy is a stereotype. The typical Rice-Boy can be identified by his car, or rather what he does to it. Generally, Rice-Boy will start out with a car that was not meant to go fast (typically a Honda Civic), and attempt to "fix it up," usually consisting of aftermarket rims, lowering springs and an aftermarket exhaust system with a large exhaust tip.

Most Rice-Boy cars (or "Rice Rockets") have the usual complement of stickers proudly displaying features that the car might or might not have, most notably, the Honda VTEC sticker from the later model Preludes, and the plaques from the later model Integras.

Rice-Boys do not exclusively drive Japanese cars. There are quite a few fake Mustang '5.0's and Camaro Z28's out there, as well as quite a few strange looking Neons.

If it wasn't for that bitchin pic of Strong-Sad after getting a cake in the face courtesy of Strong-Bad, this thread would be utterly and completely worthless...

Rice: Form over Function

Gearhead: Function over Form

It goes deeper than that... but that is the short and sweet.

You can have a little of one or the other... but you are gonna fall into one of those.

If you fall into the rice... it doesn't matter how much gearhead you have in you. If your shit looks like a circus, than you are a clown.

Calling people names because of the make of their car is a fawkin asshat think to do... especially when those same jackasses are probably riding around in their Canadian made Camaros... and most foreign cars are bringing their industry here.

Pointless shit = rice
Functional shit = gearhead

Or said another way:

Geo metro with neon accents and a wing = RICE!

Geo metro with a 302, tremec tranny, and 9" rear = I WANT ONE :D