Rice Burners

[WhiteOx]

I read a lot of posts on this forum where people have a laugh at 'Rice Burners'
It seems to me that 95% of the people here are laughing at themselves.

I guess I should remove the rear spoiler that came with my stock VS, after all, I would hate to think that when I drive to the shops people are laughing at me.

"Ricing" a vehicle is meant to emulate the aesthetic work of independent automotive car tuning companies who modify more than just appearance, and to give an appearance of greater ability than the car actually has. Ricing is generally looked down upon amongst people who perform engine tuning, suspension tuning, and other performance racing modifications.


This is not meant to be a complete list of known ricing characteristics, nor do all rice burners have or are limited to these modifications. Almost all of these examples have practical performance or racing applications, but when these modifications are made improperly, done for pretense of being fast, or solely for the sake of visual appeal, the car in question will likely end up labeled as "rice". In addition, these modifications add excessive weight to the vehicle, increasing the weight to horsepower ratio, further lowering vehicle performance.

Many of these modifications are nearly always found on high spec, comprehensively modified professional racing cars, but they are added as finishing touches to other extensive modification.

Common aftermarket modifications in this style can include but are not limited to:


Body modifications
Aerodynamic-seeming or creatively-designed body kits, often flimsy, thin and have little function
Wings and spoilers that are unusually large and serve no useful function.
Fiberglass or plastic replicas made to look like Carbon fiber
Non-functional hood scoops and roof scoops.
Aftermarket suicide (open in the opposite direction, door hinges are mounted on the other end of the door) or scissor doors (open similarly to those of a Lamborghini)
Excessively large wheels ("rims"), often chromed or painted in bright colors
Excessively lowered suspension
Bumper canards fitted to the front bumper

Aesthetics
Bright paint or interior, frequently in contrasting colors.
Racing harnesses which are often improperly installed.
Decals and stickers for aftermarket parts (parts that may not even be installed on the car)
Vinyling made to look like carbon fiber.
Original badging removed and/or replaced with those from other higher-performance vehicles or JDM factory racing developments such as Mugen or Nismo while the car may or may not have the branded parts installed.
Imitation parts being represented as real parts. (i.e. fake Mugen shift knob being represented as a real one)
Digital turbo, consisting of speakers installed under the car that emulate the sound of a turbo engine
A loud, free-flowing exhaust system with a large cylindrical resonator at the rear of the car, known as a "fart cannon", "fart can" or "coffee can"
Chrome aftermarket parts such as: door handles and valve covers that serve really no purpose than to look nice.
Large speakers and or subwoofers that occupy the entire trunk.
Silver or blue reflective tint of all or the bottom half of the windows.

Lighting
Decorative neon and LED lighting in addition to the regular head/tail lamps and brake/turn signals, such as lighted windshield washer nozzles and tire valve caps, underbody neon lighting ("hover lights")
"Altezza"-style lights or "Altezzas" (equally popular and known as "Lexus" lights in Europe), which have the colored light sources and reflective bodies contained within chrome housings and clear lenses
Most Commonly, Simulated HID Xenon Bulbs with high kelvin color temperature, mounted in inappropriate halogen light housings causing excessive glare.

Improper Badging
Type R or Si exterior and/or interior badges on Honda and Acura cars that are not Type R or Si models; sometimes on cars that are not even Honda or Acura manufacture MIVEC, VTEC or VVT-i exterior badging on cars not equipped with variable valve timing technology
Applying the badge of higher trim level models (such as “limited” or "sport") on an economy trim level car of the same model
Lexus/ Acura/ Infiniti / Chevrolet badges on models sold under Toyota/ Honda/ Nissan and Holden or vice versa
V6 badge on cars with I-4 engines, or other such misleading badging.

Source:
Rice burner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thoughts?

[padrickz88]

yeah? and? lol

[Stressball]

Most of the people who laugh at riceers on here have nearly none, if any, of that stuff. Besides which; if it's stock, it isn't rice

I doubt people call others ricers for having one or two of those things but not the others, it's only when it's all combined on one piece of crap that it becomes a proper ricer. (Only exceptions being fake badgings and neons )

[minux]

I guess I should remove the rear spoiler that came with my stock VS, after all, I would hate to think that when I drive to the shops people are laughing at me.

Yup you should, I am laughing

[Cobez]

Who gives a ****. Get over the whole why this car is better than that car thing. No one cares. We weren't even worried about it until you posted this thread. There have been way too many threads on this already, it's old news.

This thread gets an official FAIL of approval.

[WhiteOx]

Who gives a ****. Get over the whole why this car is better than that car thing. No one cares. We weren't even worried about it until you posted this thread. There have been way too many threads on this already, it's old news.

This thread gets an official FAIL of approval.

Geez, sorry I didn't search before posting.
Maybe I hit a nerve.

[Troy711]

Prevention is better than cure