Whats with the "RICE"

[gts-wpn]

I'm still kinda new to SAU so could someone just kinda fill me in on what the hell people are going on about so called "RICE". From what i can gather though it sounds like it has something to do with stickers n accesories on ur car. I mean the Japs have their workshop stickers n brand (ie HKS, TRUST, etc...) stickers on their Kilowatt monsters so does that mean your against that? Still don't get some of you.

[The_Paladin]

Mods with no performance enhancement.........or a lack of ballance between performance mods and cosmetic mods.............

for instance.........HKS sticker = RICE. HKS sticker on a car with a HKS turbo in it = not rice!

i'm sure someone is going to argue with me on that one.

[Kutter]

I think it's largely to label those who put stickers(HKS/GREDDY/APEXi/etc) and obviously don't have the parts on board the vehicle(I once spotted 'APEXi' stickers on an old school Ford POS-something....hmmm).

Also those who try to badge their cars into what's obviously not what is was originally...namely Honda boys and they obsession with labelling everything into a Type-R...Mitsu Lancer owners with their EVOLUTION/RALLiART stickering, and as of late some GTSt drivers with their GT-R badges. I don't classify those who put on GT-R kits as rice, but to actually badge it into something it's obviously not...that's rice.

[StraightSix]

http://www.riceboypage.com/ will explain all

[gts-wpn]

I understand, but looking over this laughtatrice website most of these cars are a laughing stock, but one picture that got me was this one with the mitsubishi eclipse. I mean for one thing the comment states quote "With all the money spend on making this car ugly, he could of gotten some decent performance parts". But if you look closely at the car you can see it has a FMIC. I mean are these guys trippin or something?!?! The paint job kinda makes it look like the eclipse from the first fast and furious though. But i guess the whole rice thing is more clearer to me...This site is still kinda stupid i think. I mean some people will do up their car only for the looks, cause whats the point of having a fast car when you can't even drive it fast on the roads??? Although being a skyline owner myself i don't intend on making my car the fastest car on the road. Not everyone is the same, some people do prefer looks over performance.

[gts-wpn]

I understand, but looking over this laughtatrice website most of these cars are a laughing stock, but one picture that got me was this one with the mitsubishi eclipse. I mean for one thing the comment states quote "With all the money spend on making this car ugly, he could of gotten some decent performance parts". But if you look closely at the car you can see it has a FMIC. I mean are these guys trippin or something?!?! The paint job kinda makes it look like the eclipse from the first fast and furious though. But i guess the whole rice thing is more clearer to me...This site is still kinda stupid i think. I mean some people will do up their car only for the looks, cause whats the point of having a fast car when you can't even drive it fast on the roads??? Although being a skyline owner myself i don't intend on making my car the fastest car on the road. Not everyone is the same, some people do prefer looks over performance. Still i think that site is a bit weird. I mean the guys laughing at the cars look guys who would drive bloody V8's.

[funkymonkey]

they do bag out rice on american muscle cars as well as pickups n trucks too... so in a sense I guess they just laugh at car modifications in bad taste.

[Rezz]

10 points for the guy who made that laughatrice.com website... I didn't really know how frequently the yanks modify in bad taste until now.

[dAVE]

Do you get many shockers in Japan rezz.. cant say I have really seen much apart from some of those disco vans

[Goon]

i dont really think theres anything wrong with modifying your car, because it gives you your own signiture and sets you apart from all the other cars on the road. i can see the attraction to modifying the cars appearance so to stand out, but personally, i would rather spend my hard earned $ on performance,

[Goon]

But if you look closely at the car you can see it has a FMIC.

bit of triva for you, ricers sometimes buy a FMIC made out of plastic, or put one on even when its not operational... not that im speaking from experience :Oops:

[knore]

haha yeh ive seen intercoolers on cars that arent hooked up :wassup:

Rice to me is;

GTR badge on a GTSt (Regardless of how powerful the gtst is)

An evo-look a like bodykit GLX lancer

Any stickers to which u dont actually have the parts (IE HKS sticker without having any HKS parts)

Exhuast on a NA car (Unless a descent sized V8 then its ok, but not a 1.8l hyundai)

And finally, *stirs the pot* Chrome mags (certain cars are fine, but 90% of cars get wrecked by adding 'chromies')

I also eat rice, with my mouth, and with my car :headspin: hehe

[OKBANANA]

A classic example of rice:

GT-R Bade too

[rb25]

^ now thats the kind of rice i really dislike. but i agree with alot of comments here, if you dont have HKS parts, why the HKS stickers?

-rb25

:headbang:

[OKBANANA]

^ now thats the kind of rice i really dislike. but i agree with alot of comments here, if you dont have HKS parts, why the HKS stickers?

-rb25

:headbang:

Excatly.

[Terreto]

On one hand I don't like riced up hyundais or daewoos... Giant rear wings and lime green paint jobs looks ridiculous on what are essentially budget economy cars. Save the money and get an actual sports car.

...but on the other hand I also can't stand ppl who are like 'it's all about the performance forget the looks', and pour all their money into their banged up looking old clapper of a car and then then proceed to bag an r34 GT-T or GTR skyline because it's got racing stripes or neons or whatever as being 'rice' or 'ghey'. These people have NO taste and are TOTALLY boring and conformist, and the way they try to impose that belief on other people shits me off. Then you get people who are too afraid to be individual!

I mean say racing stripes, nice wheels, bodykits or even decals or neons or whatever all look awesome on the skyline if done with taste. If you got the muscle then go for the look as well. The skyline was not styled by pinifarina, it CAN be improved and given some more character, who wants everybody to be driving cookie cutter white and wine red skylines, I don't care if they were the fastest cookie cutter look skylines in the world, it would still be very dull IMO.

But of course, the main point is it has to be tastefully done, if you have no design or colour matching skills, don't do it:P

[OKBANANA]

Looking at your avatar, the 2F2F R34 GT-R had very nice body and engine modifications.

[Goon]

, if you have no design or colour matching skills, don't do it:P

the only trouble is, the few that do have design and colour matching skills are often cultured ppl (read: ghey), and they dont really care about performance, coz they are soft!

jking fellas!

[RB26_S15]

Looking at your avatar, the 2F2F R34 GT-R had very nice body and engine modifications

the 2F2F R34 was soooooooooo ugly

[RB26_S15]

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