Define the term "Ricer"

so mine falls in that cat. then Matt, lol( lays low on switches)

no alic ur car is not ricy it is ministyle but if u had liek a lot more spoke rims and a wing with neons and u didnt have ur billet it would be then. ur car is clean.

OK I just wrote a huge response to this whole thread and deleted it on accident so here I go with the short version.

Calling every car on the streets a ricer or rice burner that is manufactured by an Asian campany is just plain ignorant and narrowminded. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but somethimes if its hateful we keep those statements to ourselves like our parent told us to when we were young. But for some reason we get older and seem to think its ok to throw around mean and degrading comments at each other, brought on by a vehicle of choice or nessesity. There have always been racist terms out there used to describe every different ethnic group of people out ther but we dont use them, or shouldnt, because we know there hateful and an cause a divide between races. So why is it still being done in the automotive tuner world???????????? Why use seperative lingo and cause those divides between enthusiasts? Why not accept and respect the fact that someone likes something different than you? Would you want everyone driving the exact same vehicle as as you with the exact same mods as you? I dont think that would be a whole lotta fun at the track or on the streets. I myself have had a real awakening in the past couple months and I am guilty of using the term ricer myself, and I hate term being directed twards me so I will no longer use it. Again its hateful and dividing and a sensless degrading word. Rant over.


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RICE - Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements i like that

Making your car look fast when it is better suited for economy driving... and the performance remains the same as an economy car. But I agree, in general, "rice" refers to the make of the Asian import cars. "Ricer" gays them out and thinks he/she is a "racer"!
-Dave

People who bolt on wooden spoilers on there family 4 door cars
People who attach a housing AC unit to there rear window
People who have mismatched paint that is obviously not meant to be
People who have exhausts that sound like a lawnmower chopping up a lawn chair

I like clean looking cars. Not a big fan of huge wings but I understand that some cars it looks good on and is actually doing some good (Some RWD Cars)
I know I have done some "Ricey" stuff to cars in the past like buying chrome hub caps for a 91 Escort when I was in HS

But really no one drives the car but yourself, and if your happy with it why bother with what other people think about it. Kinda like following a fashion trend and if you don't have the "In Cloths" your not cool. But in reality who fuckin cares?

ALL OF YOU ARE RICERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!












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Disco wrote:

OK I just wrote a huge response to this whole thread and deleted it on accident so here I go with the short version.

Calling every car on the streets a ricer or rice burner that is manufactured by an Asian campany is just plain ignorant and narrowminded. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but somethimes if its hateful we keep those statements to ourselves like our parent told us to when we were young. But for some reason we get older and seem to think its ok to throw around mean and degrading comments at each other, brought on by a vehicle of choice or nessesity. There have always been racist terms out there used to describe every different ethnic group of people out ther but we dont use them, or shouldnt, because we know there hateful and an cause a divide between races. So why is it still being done in the automotive tuner world???????????? Why use seperative lingo and cause those divides between enthusiasts? Why not accept and respect the fact that someone likes something different than you? Would you want everyone driving the exact same vehicle as as you with the exact same mods as you? I dont think that would be a whole lotta fun at the track or on the streets. I myself have had a real awakening in the past couple months and I am guilty of using the term ricer myself, and I hate term being directed twards me so I will no longer use it. Again its hateful and dividing and a sensless degrading word. Rant over.


Have a great Holiday

Martin Luther Disco the 3rd...you have a dream, and i will stand for your cause...POWER TO THE PEOPLE

ur still a ricer...and im still a sourkrauter though...thats what brings us together...

you know some people dont have the money to go buy the nice bodykits and paint for there cars being a ricer is more that what your car looks like its wanting to just work on imports and make them look good and fast cars now some people like neons and the odd color paint jobs but dont make fun of them cuz that dont have the money to finish it give them props for trying now some cars that have the spinner hub caps and that are autozone hook up ya thats gay but thats not a ricer

Using the term "ricer" is not a racist remark. That is another whole avenue that doesn't need to be brought into this. A ricer can be anyone, therefore saying it's racist is flawed. Ricers are people who act a certain way, have a mentality that wouldn't be supported by society. For example, Disco, Cliff, and myself are standing by our cars and a person comes by us in their car and proceeds to take off speeding in a congested parking lot to try to show off would be considered a ricer. Someone who puts a larger than stock wing on a front wheel drive car that doesn't understand the logic behind what wings are needed for would be considered a ricer. Someone who takes a mustang that's not a Cobra and puts cobra badges on it along with cobra body parts and attempts to pass it off as a cobra is a ricer. Anyone who shares the passion of cars and speed and can give credit where credit is due is not a ricer.

Disco wrote:

OK I just wrote a huge response to this whole thread and deleted it on accident so here I go with the short version.

Calling every car on the streets a ricer or rice burner that is manufactured by an Asian campany is just plain ignorant and narrowminded. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but somethimes if its hateful we keep those statements to ourselves like our parent told us to when we were young. But for some reason we get older and seem to think its ok to throw around mean and degrading comments at each other, brought on by a vehicle of choice or nessesity. There have always been racist terms out there used to describe every different ethnic group of people out ther but we dont use them, or shouldnt, because we know there hateful and an cause a divide between races. So why is it still being done in the automotive tuner world???????????? Why use seperative lingo and cause those divides between enthusiasts? Why not accept and respect the fact that someone likes something different than you? Would you want everyone driving the exact same vehicle as as you with the exact same mods as you? I dont think that would be a whole lotta fun at the track or on the streets. I myself have had a real awakening in the past couple months and I am guilty of using the term ricer myself, and I hate term being directed twards me so I will no longer use it. Again its hateful and dividing and a sensless degrading word. Rant over.


Have a great Holiday

I'm sorry Disco but this is all a matter of opinion. Both the definitions of "rice" and "ricer" when it comes down to it are strictly opinionated. You also have to admit that those opinions are changing on a day to day basis. What is considered "rice" by some people (i.e. wings, body kits, neons, carbon fiber) was the standard in the tuner market just 3-4 years ago.

I also disagree with the theory on those terms being racist. When I call a car a "rice burner" I don't mean it in a derogatory way and I think if I were in Japan amongst a bunch of car guys and called a Honda Civic a "rice burner" it would probably be laughed off rather than someone getting flustered and starting a fight over it.

ignorance is bliss.

yeah Kong id love to see the response youd get in Japan for calling someones car a rice burner. It is a derogatory term any way you slice it. When someone like me who, deeply loves all imports, hears "all Jap cars" reffered to as rice burners it is upseting. There are tons of derogatory terms that we do not use anymore in common life that were every day spoken words used to describe things that we no longer utter due to the hatefulness that they represent. :We being mankind in general:. Everyone knows what im talking about so lets try and be a little more open minded .

^ sounds like another opinion to me.

maybe everyone should be more open minded.

I'll put it this way... i hate ricers.

I agree with spyders earlier post also, that was a real good example.

How about i've called an asian persons car a rice burner to their face, and they thought it was hilarious.

LordofChaos wrote:

^ sounds like another opinion to me.

maybe everyone should be more open minded.

I'll put it this way... i hate ricers.

I agree with spyders earlier post also, that was a real good example.

How about i've called an asian persons car a rice burner to their face, and they thought it was hilarious.

Well for the people who know you (yeti) I doubt anyone would really want to take any other route of action other than laughing!

I'm fine with everyones opinions about this and that, we all are subject to what we have learned and how we were raised. What gets to me though is saying something is racist towards someone when in fact it's in no way a racial slur. Derogatory, yea but it's no different than calling someone a bitch, which in fact most people that I would view as a ricer are in fact bitches. Kind of goes hand and hand you see.

My own opinions on the term ricer...

Having a coffee can (ehh muffler) on a four banger that sounds like a weed wacker (worse on small displacment engines like hondas I hear around town)

Having giant vinyls or graphics on the side of your car. Small cuda stripes don't count if they flow with the body lines.

Having racing strips on a slow car.

Putting on huge rims on a low HP motor. Honestly those 17+ rims on your car only make it slower especially if they are much heavier than a size below it.

Underglow lights. Had green ones on my old Neon, knew it was rice, and only used it when I pulled up to a few meets. Driving with them on is just asking to be looked at more by cops.

Huge, ugly bodykits. Some flow well, but most out there are fugly. And get them painted at least.

Those super shiny, fake chrome look tailights with meatballs inside (unless they come stock from the dealer)

And about anything else you add to your car that doesn't make it faster. If you have the power to back up your "looks" then its all good. But if not, then well...

like you said LOC everyones entitled to their own opinion

As for you calling an asian persons car a rice burner its great that he had a sense of humor about it.

Well at least I know where everyone stands and how they feel im here to get into a pissing contest with anyone I just wanted to hear everyones opinions. I love my car and will defend it till the end. If someone wants to call it a rice burner go ahead, whatever makes you feel good.

i havent seen your car but from your sig pic it doesnt look like rice to me.

now if you had a gigantic wing, a gaudy body kit, neons and 20s... i'd call it rice.

i was gonna post the definition of ricer as according to wikipedia but greatgulley beat me to it. i used to be a "ricer" i just consider myself a "tuner", "motorhead" etc. etc. etc.

but yeah Race Inspired Comestic Enhancement is not the way to go. i'd personally be all go and no show, then all show and no go.

Lots of interesting opinions here. I have to totally agree with Spyder1337's post. It was a really good reference.. and including my own..

I have seen some things that just make me want to bleed from both eyes. All you guys have to do is drive up and down racetrack/eglin pkwy for 8 hours a day and you'll know what I'm talking about.

Like the Maxima I see almost everyday with altezza's and the GTR badge slap right in the middle of the trunk...

Or the GMC pickup I saw last night at gayfront with...all...those....lights...
I think he had christmas lights on the interior. I'm not sure. I had to look away because I thought I was going to fall into an epileptic seizure!


I mean.. if that's what you wanna do, if that's what makes you happy.. have at it.. I just won't talk to you if it means me wanting to stab myself in the face to divert attention away from the hideous display stood in front of me. x)

Very true an funny responses! I myself am not complely innocent either, I have reffered to some cars as ricey. I do believe that there is a use for the term "rice" but being that im a Honda guy through and through I tend to get lumped in the whole "ricer" group. We all know that the biggest majority of ricers drive hondas and give those of us, that dont consider our selves and our cars ricey, a bad name.

Like Ho2nvda said earlier I consider myself a "tuner" and a guy that happend to get his start in tuning in a Honda. I remember seeing Integras and Civics rolling around town with gawdawful graffix and wings and bodykits and thinking to myself that I could do that car with so much more dignity and taste. It litteraly hurts my heart to see a Honda in distress crying out for help because its covered in senseless garbage that 99% of the time will slow it down in a race due to either tons of extra weight from 64 piece body kits or 8 ft wings and spoilers causing more drag than downforce to an already traction limited platform.

I try very hard not to throw judgments around based on sight or the state of someones vehicle and I work on my openmindedness daily. Which is the main reason why myself and two other like minded friends started this forum. To try and bring the entire tuning community a little closer together. I daily drive a ford f150 and i love that truck. My wife dailys a 08 Toyota Scion XB, and we love that car. My "race" car is an Acura (Honda) Integra and I love that car, and my Wifes project "race" car is a honda Crx and the decision is still out due to the fact that its not running yet. We love all types of cars obviously. I cant think of any specific car that I just cant stand. There are a few that I wouldnt spend my own money on but thats different.

well put.

were all not ricers, were all import enthusiasts.

Japan/Germany FTW!!!!

were supposed to call them "POSERS!!!"

Cody-Subaru-WRX wrote:

were all not ricers, were all import enthusiasts.

Japan/Germany FTW!!!!

were supposed to call them "POSERS!!!"

Japan/Germany x2 ftw

asuaruto~tenshi wrote:

Lots of interesting opinions here. I have to totally agree with Spyder1337's post. It was a really good reference.. and including my own..

I have seen some things that just make me want to bleed from both eyes. All you guys have to do is drive up and down racetrack/eglin pkwy for 8 hours a day and you'll know what I'm talking about.

Like the Maxima I see almost everyday with altezza's and the GTR badge slap right in the middle of the trunk...

Or the GMC pickup I saw last night at gayfront with...all...those....lights...
I think he had christmas lights on the interior. I'm not sure. I had to look away because I thought I was going to fall into an epileptic seizure!


I mean.. if that's what you wanna do, if that's what makes you happy.. have at it.. I just won't talk to you if it means me wanting to stab myself in the face to divert attention away from the hideous display stood in front of me. x)

Haha.. that post made my sides hurt!