I've said this in another thread, but I guess I need to spread my view around a bit.
Rice or
Ricer is more about an
ATTITUDE than what you've done to your car.
I was reading an automotive publication from 1993 that was full of vehicles with 17-inch wheels, huge exhausts, wings, and engine mods, lowered into the weeds.
The owners of these vehicles can be compared with tuners of today. They like to hang with like minded people, fix up their vehicles, go fast at times (usually on the track). These things are fine in my mind. And the majority of
competent tuners/hot-rodders are of this ilk.
BTW the publcation I was perusing was
Sport Truck.
All the stuff you see on Civics, Neons, Cavaliers, etc. Was first seen on a Full-Size Chevy Truck.
IMHO a 'ricer' is an idiot (not meaning to insult idiots) that pulls up in his shoddily modded car, and revs on me in my Caravan.
I will not be racing you in my Caravan. I don't want to embarass you in front of your friends, nor myself in front of the police.
A ricer will pull up on you in heavy traffic and do the "flashy thing" with their brights, and pull around you like they won a race.
A ricer will come flying thru a residential area going twice the posted speed limit, endangering every little kid in the neighborhood. Thank God for the "Fart Cans" that give us enough warning to yank the little ones out of the street.
A ricer has 3000 watts of stereo in his CRX, and cruises up my street using every one of those watts to deafen the people two counties over. Newsflash! Happiness is not having a stereo so loud that you have blood running out of your ears. Please turn it down so my dog will be brave enough to come out from under the bed.
It is not rice (or a crime) to have a nice, modified car. Whether those mods are to make the car faster, or more entertaining to be in for long periods of time, matters not. Well, it matters not as long as you are responsible, and somewhat intelligent as you drive that car.
Here, ends the rant.
