What is Rice?

[hls30.com]

What exactly is Rice! I'm not talking about a Mahatma/Watermaid product dried and packed in a plastic bag at the grocery store or the 50 lb variety offered at Sams, Costco or others. I am talking about automitive rice.

What constitutes or defines it as rice? Post your thoughts...and examples...as long as they are not too pornographic...

Will

[mdbrandy]

1) Huge rear spoilers on tiny underpowered cars.

2) Fart can mufflers with 3" outlets on tiny underpowered cars.

I've seen body kits that I'd call "rice", but many of them are in the eye-of-the-beholder, so I won't include that as a category. But I've NEVER seen any version of the 2 points above that I thought was "not-rice".

[Pir0San]

This is rice, and I took this pic myself. The spoiler is higher than the roofline, and is wider than the car itself. It's got the fart can exaust, as well as the altezzas, but my datsun blasted by it no issue.

[ChrisA]

1) Huge rear spoilers on tiny underpowered cars.

2) Fart can mufflers with 3" outlets on tiny underpowered cars.

LOL

3)"NOS" "Apexi" "GReddy" stickers on tiny stock underpowered cars.

P.S. I'd love some wild rice right now Will! Maybe with some grilled chicken!

[hls30.com]

OK, the system must have hickupped, there was a front page poll here!

I will try again...

Will

[Ryousuke784]

I belong to a Fc3s fourm also and this is what we have come up with.

http://www.clubfc3s.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=53&st=0

Or watch this viedo

http://videos.streetfire.net/hottestvideos/4/4E821839-EE00-491A-BA96-867786120887.htm

[TomoHawk]

I would say rice would be the stuff that doesn't do anything beyond what the car was designed to do...

huge REAR spoilers on a FRONT-wheel-drive car, or a non race-car

coffee-can mufflers for an engine that has to work hard to push the air through the can

lights inside the car for decoration only

lights outside & underneath the car for decoration

STROBE LIGHTS

fake hood/intake and body vents

Big speakers that require an amplifier just for itself

video screen(s) or the driver

basically anything annoying or distracting or creates an unsafe car, or unsafe environment for the driver and/or passengers

[TomoHawk]

I belong to a Fc3s fourm also and this is what we have come up with.

http://www.clubfc3s.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=53&st=0

I couldn't get anything from that link (need to join first?), could you give some directions? What forum section & topic name?

BTW, the video sucked. Actually, the web server was so slow it took 15 minutes to see the video, and if you restarted, it would buffer data for a minute, then play 5 seconds worth, etc...

thx

[gogriz91]

Weren't Zs rice in their day? They were running around competing with muscle cars...and who hasn't seen the odd Z with the huge whale tail JCR used to offer, or holes cut in various places to support more/better speakers, or the Monza tip or Cherry Bomb exhaust?

IMO, the "rice" of today is an evolution of the Z/510/Celica "rice" of 30 years ago...it's just that your average 1st gen Z owner is 20-30 years older than his teen counterpart of today.

[TomoHawk]

The S30s were fairly plain when they came out. Then when the ZX started, they were advertised as being luxurious and having all the fancy stuff the "expensive" cars had. That's about the closest to rice the (ZX) was.

Remember, you can rice any car. Even a Jeep or a VW Beetle...

[Darkstar]

In my opinion even a nice car can be turned into a ricemobile, it just depends on the owner. Take the Zed for example - I've seen too many S30s with huge, unnecessary rear spoilers (bigger than in 911 Turbos), with stock brakes beneath huge rims and tires, awful-looking exhausts, horrible low-quality plastic bodykits (I'm not reffering to the ones that really help the aerodynamics), and - what's worst - a shedload of ducktape from WalMart. I understand that some people don't have money to build concours-winning Zeds, but at least they can try to preserve them instead of making them what the manufacturer didn't really intend it to be (ie: a shed on wheels).

I don't know if it's about a lack of taste or something, but I just don't understand the people who put huge aluminium wings, lots of stickers, hundreds of cable ties and pop rivets just to keep it together, on cars that could be beaten at the lights by my mom's old Subaru with my grandma driving. I've even seen a C5 Vette with silver stickers everywhere, and a poor 993 Porsche at British Motor Show with so much plastic, filler and paint around it, that it was almost impossible to recognize what kind of car it was (fortunately there was a specification list). The worst thing about it is that after the ricer gets bored with the car, he buys another one (in my country typically an old BMW), and sells his old "ride" to another ricer, because nobody else would buy it. After several crashes and repairs, these cars usually go straight to the junkyard. Sad. I'd prefer these cars to be driven in peace, and then simply go to a junkyard, possibly providing parts for the ones that still do well.

[johncdeere]

This citation form may have come from this board but I still like it. It covers quite a few areas.

Decals and paint jobs that look like the came out of a Japanese comic.

Rims that leave only enough room for a rubber band for a tire. (This applies to "sports cars" only. Big 1970's-1980's American cars with this carry a different set of pollitically incorrect clasifications. Also apllicable to the oversized sound systems mentioned in previous post)

Neon kits, shift lights on automaic cars, interior lights to make the driver seen (and kill his night vission)

Sometimes its just a feeling you get when you pass a bumble bee and see a rag tied around some kid's head.